GENUS 13. 



CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



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Aconitum uncinatum L Wild Monks- 

 hood or Wolf bane. Fig. 1878. 



Aconitum uncinatum L. Sp PL Ed. 2, 750. 1762. 



Slender, weak, 2-4 long, ascending or climbing, 

 leafy. Leaves thick, broader than long, $'-4.' wide, 

 deeply 3-5-lobed or cleft; lobes oblong or ovate- 

 lanceolate, cleft or toothed, acute, glabrous or 

 nearly so; panicle few-flowered, pubescent; flowers 

 clustered at the ends of its branches, blue, i' broad 

 or more; helmet erect, obtusely conic, acute in front 

 but scarcely beaked ; follicles 3, 6"-7" long, subulate- 

 beaked 



In woods, southern Pennsylvania, south along the 

 mountains to Georgia, west to Wisconsin and Kentucky. 

 Ascends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. June-Sept. 



3. Aconitum reclinatum A Gray. Trail- 

 ing Wolfsbane. Fig 1879. 

 A. reclinatum A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. 42 : 34. 1842. 

 Trailing, 2-8 long. Leaves 3-7-cleft, all but 

 the upper petioled, thin, the lower 6'-8' broad, 

 mainly obovate, acute, toothed and cleft toward 

 the apex; simple panicle or raceme loose, pubes- 

 cent; flowers white, 8"-io" long; helmet hori- 

 zontal or nearly so, elongated-conic, with a 

 straight, short beak; follicles 3, 5" long, with 

 slender divergent beaks. 



In woods, Cheat Mountain and Stony Man Moun- 

 tain, Virginia, south along the Alleghanies to Georgia. 

 Ascends to 5500 ft. in North Carolina. Trailing 

 monkshood. July-Aug. 



14. ANEMONE L. Sp. PI. 538. 1753. 



Erect perennial herbs. Basal leaves lobed, divided or dissected, those of the stem form- 

 ing an involucre near to or remote from the peduncled flower or flowers. Sepals 4-20, 

 petaloid. Petals none. Stamens =o, shorter than the sepals. Carpels oo. Achenes com- 

 pressed, i-seeded. [From the Greek, a flower shaken by the wind.] 



About 85 species, widely distributed through the temperate and subarctic regions of both hemi- 

 spheres. About 20 species are natives of North America. Type species : Anemone coronaria L. 



* Achenes densely woolly. 



Stem simple, slender, i-flowered. 



Root tuberous ; sepals 6-20, narrow. i. A. carolitiiana. 



Rootstock slender ; sepals 5-6, oval. 2. A. parviflora. 



Stem commonly branching above, tall, generally 2-several-flowered. 



Leaves of the involucre sessile or short-petioled ; sepals red ; head of fruit globose or oval. 



3. A. hudsoniana. 



Leaves of the involucre slender-petioled ; sepals white or green ; head cylindric, oval, or oblong. 

 Head of fruit cylindric ; divisions of the leaves wedge-shaped, narrow. 4. A. cylindrica. 

 Head of fruit oblong or oval ; divisions of the leaves ovate, broad. 5. A. virginiana. 



** Achenes pubescent, or nearly glabrous. 

 Leaves of the involucre sessile. 



Stout, i-2 high, branching and bearing several flowers ; carpels nearly orbicular ; flowers white. 



6. A. canadensis. 



Slender, 2'-i2' high, i-flowered; carpels narrow; flowers yellow. 7. A. Richardsonii. 



Leaves of the involucre petioled. 



Involucral leaf-divisions lobed and incised ; plant 4'-$' high. 8. A. quinquefolia. 



Involucral leaf-divisions dentate; plant io'-i6' high. 9. A. trifolia. 



