4 RANUXCULACEJE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 



ariloba, DC., an early state, when all the leaflets are linear.) Swamps and 

 banks of rivers. May and June. Stems 2 - 4 high, somewhat shrubby at 

 the base. Flowers !'-!' long, pale bluish-purple. 



6. C. reticUlata, Walt. Smooth; leaves pinnate; leaflets 7-9, oval, 

 entire or 2 - 3-lobed, obtuse or mucronate, coriaceous, strongly reticulated ; calyx 

 ovate ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, with spreading tips, not margined, longer than 

 the stamens ; tails of the achenia (1^' long) slender, plumose. Dry sandy soil, 

 Florida to South Carolina. May- July. Calyx downy, dull purple. 



* * Flowers panided : calyx thin, spreading, white: stems woody. 



7. C. Virginiana, L. Smooth ; leaves ternate ; leaflets ovate or cordate- 

 ovate, lobed or toothed ; panicle trichotomous, many-flowered, leafy ; flowers 

 dioecious or polygamous ; sepals obovate, smoothish ; tails of the achenia long, 

 plumose. Swamps and meadows. July. Leaflets 2' -3' long. 



8. C. Catesbyana, Pursh. Pubescent ; leaves biternate ; leaflets ovate, 

 mostly cordate, 3-toothed or lobcd ; panicle leafy, many-flowered, the branches 

 divaricate, opposite, 3 5-flowered ; flowers dioecious ; sepals oblong, hoary ; 

 tails of the achenia plumose. Dry sandy soil, near the coast, Florida to South 

 Carolina, and westward. July. Stem climbing high. Leaves and flowers 

 smaller than the last. 



9. C. holosericea, Pursh. Silky-pubescent ; leaves ternate ; leaflets 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire ; flowers dioecious, in paniculate corymbs ; sepals lin- 

 ear, longer than the stamens ; tails of the achenia very long, plumose. South 

 Carolina, Walter. Flowers small, white. ( * ) 



3. ANEMONE, L. WIND-FLOWER. 



Sepals 4 -20, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous. Petals none. Sta- 

 mens indefinite. Filaments filiform. Ovaries numerous. Ovule solitary. 

 Achenia capitate, compressed, pointed by the short, naked or woolly, straight 

 or hooked, persistent style. Seed suspended. Perennial herbs, with naked 

 stems, bearing at the summit 2-3 opposite or whorled and divided leaves, which 

 form an involucre remote from the flower. Radical leaves lobed or divided. 



1. A. nemorosa, L. (WOOD ANEMONE.) Smooth or pubescent ; stem 

 1 -flowered ; leaves of the involucre 3, long-petioled, 3-parted, the divisions ovate- 

 lanceolate, lobcd and toothed, longer than the peduncle ; sepals 4-6, oval, white ; 

 achenia 15-20, pointed by the hooked persistent style. Open woods along 

 the mountains and northward. March -April. Stems 4' -6' high. Radical 

 leaf solitary. 



2. A. Caroliniana, Walt. (CAROLINA ANEMONE.) Stem slender, 

 1-flowered ; peduncle many times longer than the small, sessile, 3-leavcd, 

 3-toothed involucre ; radical leaves 2-3, long-petioled, ternate, deeply parted, 

 lobed and toothed ; sepals 14-20, oblong, white ; achenia numerous in a cylin- 

 drical-oblong head, woolly. North Carolina and westward. March. Stems 

 6' - 1 2' high. Flowers 1 ' in diameter. 



