Anemone. RANUNCULACE^. 9 



4. Anemone multifida, Poir. [Plate II.] Cut-lemed Wind-Jlower. 



Hairy ; leaves ternately divided ; segments cuneiform, laciniately 3-cleft, the lobes linear, 

 acute , those of the involucre and involucels similar, on Short petioles ; sepals 5-8, oval, 

 obtuse ; head of carpels oval, woolly. — Poir. diet, suppl. 1. p. 364 ; Deless. ic. 1. t. 16 ; 

 DC.prodr. I. p. .21 (excl. var. uniflora) ; Hook. ft. Bor.-Am. l.p.1 ; Pritz. I. c. p. 672. 



var. Hudsoniana: stem mostly 2-flowcred. — DC. I. c. ; Gray, in anri. lye. N. York, 3. 

 p. 222 ; Torr. ^ Gr. ft. N. Am. I. p. 13. A. Hudsoniana, and var. sanguinea, Riehards. 

 app. Frank, jour. ed. 2. p. 22 ; Pritz. I. c. A. Hudsoniana, Oakes, in Hovey's hart. mag. 

 '^KMay, 1841. A. sanguinea, Pursh, in herb. Lamb. 



About a foot high. Radical leaves on petioles which are 2 - 5 inches in length ; segments 

 1-2 lines wide. Peduncles of the flower 1-3 inches long, of the fruit 6 inches or more ; 

 one of them naked, the other with an involucel near the middle. Flowers as large as in A. 

 Virginiana, bright purplish red. Sepals usually 5, silky-villous externally. Head of carpels 

 about three fourths of an inch long and half an inch in diameter. Carpels pointed with a 

 slightly curved subulate beak. 



The only known locality in our State, of this rare plant, is Watertown, Jefferson county, 

 where it was discovered about 25 years ago by Dr. I. Crawe. It grows on limestone rocks, 

 and, in this place, always occurs with red flowers, which appear in June. Dr. Robbins found 

 it in Vermont with the flowers dull white, and sometimes tinged with rose-color. 



DeCandolle, in his Syst. nat. veg. (1818), describes two varieties of this plant, one {Ma- 

 gellanica) from the Straits of Magellan, collected by Commerson ; the other (Hudsoniana) 

 from Hudson's Bay. These seem to differ merely in the number of flowers on a plant ; a 

 character by no means constant. The former is figured in Delesserfs Icones, Vol. 1. t. 16. 

 In t. 17 is a representation of a third variety ("pedicellis solitariis"), from the Straits of 

 Magellan, but not described by DeCandolle in his Systema. It is the /. uniflora of his Pro- 

 dromus. This differs so much from the ordinary A. multifida, that the author of the Icones 

 proposed it as a distinct species, under the name of A. Commersonia, which is adopted by 

 Sprengel in his Systema veg. In the southern hemisphere the A. multifida has even a more 

 extended range than in North America, being found from Conception to the Straits of Magellan. 



5. Anemone Pennsylvanica, L. Pennsylvania Wind-Jlower. 



Somewhat hairy ; leaves 3 - 5-parted ; segments oblong, incisely toothed at the apex ; in- 

 volucre and involucels similar, 2-leaved, sessile ; sepals 5, obovate ; carpels hairy, margined, 

 with a long subulate style which is somewhat recurved at the point ; heads of carpels glo- 

 bose.— PwrsA, fl,. 2. p. 387; DC. prodr. I. p. 121 ; Hook. ft. Bor.-Am. I. p. 8. t. 3. f. B; 

 Torr. ^ Gr. fl. N. Amer. 1. p. 14 ; Pritz. I. c. p. 667. A. dichotoma, Linn, amoen. acad. 

 l.p. 155. A. aconitifolia, Michx.ft. l.p. 320. 



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