202 ORDER 1. RANUNCULACE^E. 



10 C. ovata Ph. Leaves broadly ovate, glabrous, glaucous and veiny beneath. 

 _ X. Car. to Fla. Stem simple, 1 2f high, glabrous as well as the whole plant. 

 Leaves entire, simple, on short petioles, the lower subcordate. The stem termi- 

 nates in a short, nodding, purple flower, with ovate-acuminate sepals. Achenia 

 with long plumous tails. 



11 c. Baldwin!! T. & G-. Leaves varying from oblong to lance-linear, the lower 

 3-lobed or cleft. Tampa Bay, Fla. (Baldwin.) Slender, 1 2f high. Lvs. acute 

 at base, about ' by 2', petiolate. Flower cylindrical-cainpanulate, purplish, on a 

 long terminal peduncle. Plumous tails 2' long. 



12 C. Plammula L. Flowers paniculate ; Ivs. pinnate ; Ifts. oblong, acute at 

 each end. S. Europe and N. Africa, often cultivated. Its long, half woody, 

 angular, climbing stems form shady masses, covered with small, white, cymous, 

 extremely fragrant flowera Lfts. very variable. Fruit tipped with long shaggy 

 tails. JL, Oct.f 



13 C. fl6rida L. Flowers solitary ; sepals acuminate, smooth ; Ifts. ovate, acute. 

 From Japan. Yine 12f long. Lvs. ternate and decompound; Ifts. entire. 

 Peduncles longer than the leaves, bearing each a large, white-yellow flower. 

 Jn., Septf 



14 C. Viticella L. Flower solitary ; sepals obovate. From Spain. Vine long 

 and climbing, with ternately decompound leaves. Lfts. entire, ovate or oval. 

 Flower large, purple, the sepals broad, obtuse at end, often double. Jn. Sept.f 



15. C. lasiantha Kutt. Fls. solitary, direcious, on clustered 2-leaved branch- 

 lets; sepals oblong- cuneate, spreading, villoua on both sides; Ivs. ternate, Ifts. 

 broadly ovate, incisely toothed, the terminal 3-lobed or cleft. Yine delicate, 

 climbing many feet, pubescent or villous. Lfts. about 1 %' by 1'. Peduncles 3' 

 long, the pale blue-purple fl. li' broad. f Rocky Mts. 



2. ANEMONE, L. Fig. 361. (Gr. dve^og, wind. Most of the 

 species grow in elevated or windy places.) Involucre remote from the 

 flower, of 3 divided leaves; calyx regular, of 5 15 colored sepals; 

 corolla ; stamens oo, much shorter than the sepals ; ovaries oo, free, 

 collected into a roundish or oblong head ; achenia with a short, rarely 

 lengthened beak; seeds suspended. !(. Lvs. radical, stem Ivs. 2 or 3 

 opposite or whorled, forming the involucre. 



P0LSATILLA. Carpels many (50 T5) with long, plumous tails .................. . ...No.l 



ANEMONE proper. Carpels not produced into tails. (") 



* Pistils many (50 TO) in a head, densely woolly in fruit, (a) 



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a Involucrate leaves sessile, with a single llower ................................ Nos. 2 4 



a Involucrate leaves petiolate, with 2 3 flowers ............................... Nos. 5 T 



* Pistils fewer (1520), merely pubescent in fruit .............................. Nos. 8, 9 



* Pistils few (1015), glabrous. Flowers umbeled .............................. Nos. 10, 11 



Exotic, cultivated species ____ Nos. 12, 13 



1 A. Nuttalliana DC. PASQUE-FLOWER. Plant clothed with silky hairs. St. in 

 flower very short, in fruit 8 12' high. Lvs. long-stalked, many-cleft, segments 

 linear or cuneiform, incised. Involucre below the middle of the stem, sessile, 

 subulately dissected, concave or cup-shaped in position. Sep. of the single 

 showy flower 5 or G, 1' long, pale-purple, silky outside, appearing before the 

 leaves, in Apr. Tails of the carpels If long. Dry hills. Wise., Ill, W. to R. 

 Mts. (A. patens L. Pulsatilla, Gray.) 



2 A. Caroliniana "Walt. Lvs. 3-parted into cuneate-linear, twice trifid segments , 

 invol. similarly ckft halfway, hand-shaped; sep. 15 20, obtuse; head of carpels 

 cylindraceous-oblong. A delicately beautiful plant, Car. to Ark. and Nebr. 

 Rhizome tuberous, sending up many stalked, multifld leaves and a scape 6 10' 

 high, bearing the 2 or 3-leaved involucre below the middle, and the single large, 

 fragrant, white or rose-colored flower at top. Scape pubescent above. Outer 

 sepals dotted with purple, oblong, the inner (or petals) narrower, all nearly per- 

 sistent. Invoi similar to, or less deeply cleft than the leaves. Apr. (A. tenella, 

 Ph.) 



3 A. heteroph^-lla Nutt. Lvs. of roundish-oval, crenate segments; invol. 

 linear-cleft to the base; sep. acute, 5 13; head of carpels cylindrical. Ga. (near 

 Macon, Mettauer) to Ln. (Hale) and Ark. RhizomD tuberous. Radical Ivs. one or 



