4 KANUNCULACEuE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 



mose. Copses near Brooklyn, New York; Pennsylvania and Virginia' rare. 

 May. A foot high. Calyx yellowish within. 

 +- *- Stems climbing : leave* pinnate: calyx (and foliage) glabrous or pubendent. 



2. C. Yionia, L. (LEATHER-FLOWER.) Calyx ovate and at length 

 bell-shaped ; the purplish s<:pals very thick and leathery, with abrupt edges, tipped 

 with short recurved points; the long tails of the fruit very plumose ; leaflets 3-7, 

 ovate or oblong, sometimes slightly cordate, 2- 3-lohed or entire; uppermost 

 leaves often simple. Kich soil, Penn., Ohio, and southward. May -Aug. 



3. C. Pitclicri, Torr. & Gray. Calyx bell-shaped; the dull publish 

 $ejKils icifh iittrrotr find slightly margined recurved points; tails of the fruit Jilifonn 

 andlxin/i/ />n/><. wiit ; leaflets 3-9, ovate or somewhat cordate, entire or 3-lohed, 

 much reticulated; uppermost leaves often simple. Illinois, on the Mississippi, 

 and southward. June. 



4. C. cylindrical, Sims. Calyx cylindraceous below, the upper half of 

 the bluish-purple sepals dilated and widely spreading, with broad and imrtj tit in 

 margins ; tails of the fruit silky ; leaflets 5-9, thin, varying from oblong-ovate 

 to lanceolate, entire or 3-5-parted. Virginia near Norfolk, and southward. 

 May -Aug. 



* * Flowers in panicked clusters : sepals thin : anthers oblong. 



5. C. Virgiiiiftiia, L. (COMMON VIRGIN'S-BOWER.) Smooth ; leaves 

 nearing 3 ovate acute leaflets, which are cut or lobed, and somewhat heart-shaped 

 at the base ; tails of the fruit plumose. River-banks, &e., common ; climbing 

 over shrubs. July, August. The axillary peduncles bear clusters of numerous 

 white flowers (sepals obovate, spreading), which are polygamous or dioecious; 

 the fertile are succeeded in autumn by the conspicuous feathery tails of tte fruit. 



3. PUL.SATIL.L.A, Toum. PASQUE-FLOWER. 



Sepals 4-6, colored. Petals none, or like abortive gland-like stamens. 

 Achcnia with long feathery tails. Otherwise as Anemone ; from which the 

 genus does not sufficiently differ. (Derivation obscure. The popular name 

 was given because the plant is in blossom at Easter.) 



1. I*. Ntittalliail.t. Villous with long silky hairs ; flower erect, devel- 

 oped before the leaves; which are ternately divided, the lateral divisions 2-part- 

 ed, the middle one stalked and 3-parted, the segments deeply once or twice cleft 

 into narrowly linear and acute lobes ; lobes of the involucre like those of the 

 leaves, at the base all united into a shallow cup; sepals 5-7, purplish, spread- 

 ing. (P. patens, ed. 1. Anemone patens, Hook, $*c. not of L. A. Is'uttalliana, 

 DC. A. Ludoviciana, Nutt.) Prairies, Wisconsin (Lapfmm) and westward. 

 April. A span high. Sepals !'-!' long. Tails of the fruit 2' long. More 

 like P. vulgaris than P. patens of Europe. 



4. AftEUI^MVE, L. ANEMONE. WIND-FLOWER. 



Sepals 5-15, petal-like. Petals none. Achenia short-beaked or blunt. Seed 

 suspended. Perennial herbs with radical leaves; those of the stem 2 or 3 to- 



