324 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



DD. Flowers in panicles or corj'inbs 4. ThaUctriim 



cc. True petals present: yellow 5. Banuiiculus 



BB. Fruit, follicles. 



c. Flowers regular. 



D. Petals each spurred 6. AqiiiJegia 



DO. Petals none: sepals petal-like, j-ellow 7. Caltha 



DDD. Many petals: fls. very large and of shades of 



red : plant bushy 8. Pa'ou ia 



cc. Flowers irregular: upper sepal spurred: 2 petals 



spurred 9. Delphinium 



BBB. Fruit, berries, red or white. 



o. Flowers with petals and 3-5 petal-like sepals: fls. 



small, white, in a short raceme 10. A ctcea 



AA. Plants climbing by the leaf-stalks: stem woody 11. Clematis 



1. ANEMONE. Anemony. Wind-flower. 



Low perennial herbs with mostly showy apetalous 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. Japdnica, Sieb & Zucc. Japanese 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.Virgini^na, Linn. Two ft., with involucre of three 3-parted leaves: 

 flowers on long stalks arising in succession from succeeding nodes: sepals 5, 

 acute, greenish- white: head of fruit oblong, ^i in. long. Woods, 

 aa. Akenes not woolly or silky. 



A. quinquefdlia, Linn. (A. nemorosa of some). Common tvind- flower. 

 Low, about 6 in., blooming in rich woods in early spring: involucral leaves 3, 

 each with 3 or 5 long leaflets: flowers white, purplish outside, pretty. 



2. HEPATICA. Liverleaf. Mayflower of some places. 



Differs from Anemone chiefly in having 3 simple sepal-like bracts be- 

 neath the flower (but they are sometimes a half-inch removed from it): 

 flowers in earliest spring, white, blush or blue, on simple hairy scapes: 

 leaves bread, 3-lobed. Woods. 



H. triloba, Chaix. Leaves with rounded lobes. 



H. acutiloba, DC. Leaves with acute lobes. 



3. ANEMONllLLA. Rue Anemone. 



Attractive slender perennial herb, resembling Anemone: basal leaves 

 2 or 3 times compound : involucre of 3 compound leaves at base of the 

 umbel: leaflets petioled: flowers in a terminal umbel, on slender pedicels: 

 petals wanting: sepals 5-10, white or pinkish, 1 in. broad, petal-like: pistils 

 4-1,5: stigma broad, sessile on carpels, glabrous and deeply grooved, 



A. thalictroldefl, Spach. Hue anemone. Stem slender &-10 in., appear- 



