RANUNCULACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



i. Anemone caroliniana Walt. Carolina Anemone. 

 Fig. 1880. 



Anemone caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 157. 1788. 



Sparsely hairy, 4'-io' high, arising from a tuber 3"~4" 

 in diameter. Basal leaves slender-petioled, 3-divided, the 

 divisions variously toothed, lobed and parted, those of the 

 involucre sessile and 3-cleft; flower erect, 9"-! 8" broad; 

 sepals 6-20, linear-oblong, purple, varying to white; head 

 of fruit oblong; achenes densely woolly. 



Open places, Illinois to Wisconsin and South Dakota, south 

 to Florida and Texas. Mayflower. April-May. 



Anemone decapetala Ard., of the southern United States, 

 Mexico and South America, ranging north to Kansas, differs 

 by some or all of its basal leaves having the divisions merely 

 crenate. 



2. Anemone parviflora Micnx. Northern or Small- 

 flowered Anemone. Fig. 1881. 



Anemone parviflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 319. 1803. 



Sparingly hairy, ^'-12' high from slender rootstocks. 

 Basal leaves long-petioled, 3-parted, the broadly wedge- 

 shaped divisions obtusely lobed or crenate, those of the 

 involucre nearly sessile, similarly lobed; flower i' in diam- 

 eter or less; sepals oval, very obtuse, white; head of fruit 

 short-oval or globose ; achenes densely woolly. 



Labrador, Newfoundland and Quebec to Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota and Alaska, south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 

 Also in northern Asia. May-June. 



Anemone hudsoniana Richards. Cut-leaved Anemone. 



Fig. 1882. 



Red Wind-flower. 



Anemone hudsoniana Richards. Franklin's Journey 741. 

 1823. 



Silky-hairy, 6'-i8' high, sparingly branched, the 

 lateral peduncles involucrate. Basal leaves long- 

 petioled, reniform, 3-5-parted, the divisions cleft 

 into linear acute lobes, those of the involucres sliort- 

 petioled and more or less cuneate, otherwise simi- 

 lar; sepals 5-9, greenish or red, oblong, forming a 

 flower 4'-i' broad; head of fruit globose or oblong, 

 $'-i' long; achenes compressed, densely woolly, 

 tipped with the short subulate styles. 



Anticosti and New Brunswick to Maine, New York, 

 Michigan and Minnesota. Summer. 



The similar A. globosa Nutt., of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, with larger flowers, occurs in the Black Hills of 

 South Dakota and Manitoba, and is reported from Ne- 

 braska. Both have been confused with A. multifida Poir, 

 of southern South America, which they much resemble. 



