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11. ANEMONE L. Anemone. 



Perennial herbs with mostly radical compound leaves; cauline leaves 2 or 3 together, 

 forming an involucre remote from the flower; peduncles 1-flowered, solitary or umbel- 

 late; sepals few or many, petal-like; petals none; achenes pointed, flattened; styles 

 short, not plumose; staminodia wanting; ovule pendulous. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Achenes glabrate in age 1. A. canadensis. 



Achenes densely villous. 



Plants low, 20 cm. high or less; sepals 8 or more, colored 4. A. sphenophylla. 



Plants tall, 40 to 120 cm. high; sepals 5 or 6, white. 



Head of carpels globose or nearly so; leaf segments 

 linear; styles filiform, usually deciduous; in- 



volucral leaves short-petioled 2. A. globosa. 



Head of cai-pels cylindric; leaf segments cuneate or 

 lanceolate; styles subulate, persistent; involucral 

 leaves long-petioled 3. A. cylindrica. 



1. Anemone canadensis L. Sysf. Nat. ed. 12. 3: App. 231. 1768. 

 Type locality: " Habitat in Pennsylvania . " 



Range: British America to Maryland and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Beulah; Gilmores Ranch. Woods, in the Transition Zone. 



2. Anemone globosa Nutt.; Pritz. Linnaea 15: 673. 1841. 



Type locality: "In planitie fluminis Platte, et in vallibus montium rupestrium 

 in lat. 42°." 



Range: British America to California and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. Woods, in the Transition Zone. 



3. Anemone cylindrica A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 221. 1836. 

 Type locality: Dry pine barrens, near Oneida Lake, New York. 

 Range: British America to New Jersey and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Dulce; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Johnsons Mesa; Raton; 

 Sierra Grande; White Mountains. Damp woods, in the Transition Zone. 



4. Anemone sphenophylla Poepp. Fragm. Syn. Chile 27. 1833. 

 Type locality: "In Chile boreal, collibus graminos. ad Concon." 

 Range: Texas to California and southward. 



New Mexico: Bishops Cap; Hillsboro; Florida Mountains; Tortugas Mountain. 

 Dry hills, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 



12. PULSATILLA Adans. Basque flower. 



A low perennial, silky -villous throughout; flowers large and showy, purplish blue 

 to white, usually "with abortive stamens answering to petals; carpels numerous, 

 capitate, with long styles, these in fruit becoming long feathery tails. 



1. Pulsatilla hirsutissima (Pursh) Britten, Ann. N. Y. Acad. 6: 217. 1891. 



Clematis hirsutissima Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 385. 1814. 



Anemone nuttalliana DC. Reg. Veg. Syst. 1: 193. 1818. 



Type locality: "On the plains of Columbia river." 



Range: British America to Washington, New Mexico, and Illinois. 



New Mexico: Chama; Tierra Amarilla; Sandia Mountains; WTiite Mountains. 

 Meadows, in the Transition Zone. 



