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a. Fruits akenes, several or many from each flower. 



b. True petals none, but sepals petal-like (and involucre 

 often simulating a c-alj s |. 

 i . Involucre of 2 or more leaves much beneath the flower 1. .1 n< mom 

 cc. Involucre of 3 sepal-like leaves close to the flower. .2. // patica 



bb. True petal- present, yellow ::. Banunculus 



AA. Fruits follicles. 



b. Petals not spurred, mostly yellow i. Caltha 



bb. Petals spurred 5. Aquilegia 



1. ANEMONE. Ankmony. Wind-flower. 



Low perennial herbs with mostly showy ape talons flowers and an invo- 

 lucre of 2 or more mostly divided leaves standing some distance below the 

 flower: pistils ripening into a head of akenes. 



a. Akenes woolly or silky. 

 A. Japonica, Sieb & Zucc. Japanesi anemony. Three ft., blooming in 

 fall, with pink or white flowers 2-3 in. across: leaves with 3 cordate-ovate 



notched Leaflets. .Much planted. 



A.Virginiana, Linn. Two ft., with involucre of three :: parted leaves: 



flowers on long Btalks arising in succession From bu teding node- ; sepals .">, 



acute, greenish- white: beadoffruil oblong, ' in. long. Wood-. 



aa. Akenes not woolly or silky. 



A. quinquefolia, I. inn. i.l. nemorosa of some). Common wind-fl< 

 Low, a i. out 6 in., blooming in rich woods in early spring: in\ olucral leai - 

 each with 3 or 5 long Leaflets: flowers hite, purplish outside, pretty. 



12. HEPATICA. l.r. i.ki.i. \i . RIatflowkb of some pla 



Differs from Anemone chiefly in having '' Bimple sepal like bracts be- 



Death the flower (bul thej are - itimes a half inch removed from It): 



flower- in earlie-t Bpring, while, blush or blue, on Bimple hairy scapes: 

 leai es broad, '' lobed Woods. 



H. triloba, Chaix. Leavi - with rounded lob< 



H. acutiloba, DC. Leaves with acute lobes. 



:i. RANtJNCULUS. Cbowfoot. Bdttbbcup. Pigs. 2, 187, 188, 191, 243. 



Perennials or annual-, with mostly yellow flowers: sepals 5: petals 5, 

 ami bearing a little pil or scale at the base Inside: leaves alternate: ak. uea 



many in a bead. 



R. acris, I. inn. Tall buttercup, 'I' (1 . from * fibrous 



leaves 3-parted, all the divlsi< lie and again 3-deft: flowers bright 



yellow. Europe, but now a conn i weed. Summer. 



R. bulbosus, Linn. ESarlier, and onlj half as tall, from bulbou* > 

 leaves 3-parted, the lateral divislo lc and the terminal om * talked: 



peduncles furrowed: flowers bright yellow. Kuropi ; commoi rcl. 



R. septentrionalis, Poir. St< ma mor< 

 forming lone- runn< rs: leavi - !l dr. Idi d, til all -talked aud ' lolx d !" 



parted: petal obo ate, yellow. Wei placi 



