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§ 2 Viorna Spach. Flowers large, hermaphrodite, solitary and 
mostly nodding on rather long peduncles. Petals none. Anthers 
long and slender, pointed. Filaments hirsute or pubescent. Ours 
herbaceous perennials. 
C. Douglasii Hook. Fl. i, 1. t.1. Stems simple or branched, more or 
less villous, woolly at the joints: leaves 2-3-pinnatifid with linear to linear- 
lanceolate segments: flowers nodding, on erect naked peduncles that elon- 
gate in fruit: sepals thick, pubescent, more or less spreading and woolly at 
the apex, deep purple inside, paler externally. High mountsins, E.* Ore- 
gon to Brit. Columbia and the Rocky Mountains. 
C. Scottii Porter Fl. Col. 1. More or less villous with soft spreading 
hairs; bushy, branching froma suffrutescent base; branches erect, 9-18 
inches high; leaves opposite, on rather long petioles, large, pinnate, with 
some or all of the divisions: 3-5-parted or 3-5-foliate; lobes or leaflets ob- 
long or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 4-5 lines broad by an inch 
long; some upper leaves with distinctly tortuous partial petioles: flowers 
axillary and terminal, nodding, on peduncles 3-6 inches long: sepals 4, 
ovate, with reflexed summits, nearly an inch long, dark- or brownish-pur- 
ple. thickish, more or less tomentose outside: achenes silky-pubescent, 
with densely plumose tails 1-14 inches long. Beaver Canyon Idaho to 
southern Colorado. 
§ 38. ATRAGENE DC. Flowers large, hermaphrodite, solitary on 
naked peduncles. Sepals much exceeding the stamens and pistils, 
spreading from the base, thin, petaloid. Anthers short, on long 
pubescent filaments: usually some of the outermost filaments 
enlarging to small spatulate petals. Half-woody plants that climb 
by the petioles. 3 ; 
€. verticillaris DC. Syst. i, 166. Stems slender, somewhat woody, al- 
most glabrous; leaves ternate; leaflets petiolulate, ovate.or subcordate, ab- 
ruptly acuminate: flowers solitary, bluish-purple, 2-3 inches across. In 
mountains from Idaho northward, and eastward to the Atlantic States. 
C. Columbiana T. & G. Fl. i. 11, Stems somewhat woody: leaves ter- 
nate ; leaflets petiolulate, ovate, acute, obscurely crenulate: flowers solitary 
1-2 inches broad, pale blue ; sepals ovate, acuminate, nearly twice the length 
of the stamens. Wild Horse Plains Washington to the Rocky Mountains 
and Brit. Columbia. 
C. ochotensis Poir. Suppl. ii, 298. C, alpina var. occidentalis Gray. 
Stems woody, trailing: leaves biternately divided, with ovate or oblong-lan- 
ceolate acuminate, often 3-lobed, irregularly toothed segments : sepals 4, lance 
-ovate, purplish-blue: spatulate and petaloid staminodes few and usually with 
rudiments of anthers, or none: carpels glabrous with very finely plumose 
tails 14g inches long. Washington to the Rocky Mountains and Dakota. 
Tribe 2. Anemonex DC. Sepals petaloid or greenish, imbricated 
in the bud. Pistils nwmerous, becoming achenes. Ovule suspended. 
Herbs with the leaves all radical, or alternate, or whorled below I- 
several-flowered peduncles. 
2 ANEMONE Tourn. Inst. 275. L Gen. n. 696. ed. 4 
Erect perennial herbs with lobed or divided leaves which are 
all radical except those that form an involucre below the flower. 
Sepals 4-20, coloredand petaloid. Petals none. Ovaries num- 
erous; style short; stigma lateral; ovule suspended. Achenes 
