Ob CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



1 . Long hairy styles form feathery tails to the akenes, like those of Virgin's* 

 Bower: Jl. large, purple, in early spring. The genus PULSATILLA of some 

 author*. 



A. Pulsatilla, PASQUE-FLOWER, of Europe. Cult, in some flower-gar- 

 ilens ; has tlie root-leaves finely thrice-pinnately divided or cut; otherwise much 

 like the next. 



A. patens, var. Nuttalliana, WILD P. On the plains N. W. ; the 

 handsome purple or purplish flower (2' or more across when open) rising from 

 the ground on a low soft-hairy stem (3' -6' high), with an involucre of many 

 very narrow divisions ; the leaves from the root appearing later, and twice or 

 thrice-ternatcly divided and cut. 



2. Short styles noi making long tails, but only naked or hairy tips. 

 * Garden ANEMONiES,yroj S Eu., with tuberous roots and very large flowers. 



A. COronaria, with leaves cut into many fine lobes, and 6 or more broad 

 oval sepals, also 



A. hortensis, with leaves less cut into broader wedge-shaped divisions and 

 lobes, and many longer and narrow sepals, are the originals of the showy, 

 mostly double or semi-double, great-flowered GARDEN AXEMONIES, of all col- 

 ors, red in the wild state, not fully hardy, treated like bulbs. 



^C. * # Wild specie* , smaller -flowered. 



-- Pistils very many, forming a dense woolly head in fruit; leaves of the involucre 

 long-pet ioled, compound : Jhtoers of 5 small greenish-white sepals, silky beneath : 

 stem 2 -3 high. 



A. cylindrica, LONG-FRUITED A. Involucre several-leaved surrounding 

 several long naked peduncles; fl. late in spring (in dry soil N. & W.), followed 

 by a cylindrical head of fruit. 



A. Virginiana, VIRGINIAN A. Involucre 3-leaved; peduncles formed in 

 succession all summer, the middle or first one naked, the others bearing 2 leaves 

 (involucel) at the middle, from which proceed two more peduncles, and so on : 

 head of fruit oval or oblong. Common in woods and meadows. 



*^. -- -t- Pistils fewer, not wodly in fruit : flower 1' or more broad. 



A. Pennsylvanica, PENNSYLVANIA!? A. Stem 1 high, bearing an invo- 

 .'Jiucreof 3 wedge-shaped 3-eleft and cut sessile leaves, and a naked peduncle, then 

 2 or .'3 peduncles with a pair of smaller leaves at their middle, and so on ; fl. white. 

 in summer. (Lessons, fig. 179.) Alluvial ground, N. & W. W*lett**> VT& 



A. nemor6sa, WOOD A. Stctn 4'-10' high, bearing an involucre o; 

 long-petioled leaves of M or f> leaflets, and a single short-peduncled flower ; sepals" ,, 

 ^wliite, or purple outside. Woodlands, early spring. 



4. THALICTRUM, MEADOW-RUE. (Old name, of obscure deriva- 

 tion.) The following are the common wild species, in woodlands and low 

 grounds. 



1. Flowers perfect, few, in an umbel: resembling an Anemone: scj>als 5-10. 



T. anemonoides, RUE-ANEMONE. A very smooth and delicate little 5-^^^^ 

 plant, growing with Wood Anemone, which it resembles in having no stem- ~ 



reares except those that form an involucre around tin umbel of whit v (rir 

 pinkish) flowers, appearing in early spring ; leaflets roundish, .'Mobed at the C" 

 ;-nd, long-stalked: ovaries many-grooved, and with a flat-topped sessile stigma: 

 otherwise it would rank as an Anemone. 



2. Flowers mostly dioecious and not handsome, small, in loose compound panicles; 

 the 4 or 5 sepals falling early : stigma* .sYc nd< r : akenes scrcral -grooved and 

 angled : leans icrnatrh/ drcum/'oiind (Lessons, fig. l.'JS), all alternate. ; the upper- 

 most not forming an inrolwn . 



T. dioicum, EAKLV MI:AI>O\\ -Hi K. Herb glaucous, l-2high; flow- 

 ers greenish, in early spring ; the yellowish linear anthers of the sterile plant 

 hanging on long capillary filaments : leaves all on general petioles. Rocky 



T. purpurascens, PURPLISH M. Later, often a little downy, 2 -4 



