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c. True petals none, but the sepals petal-like (and 

 involucre often simulating a calyx). 

 d. Flowers in small umbels, or peduncles 1-fld. 

 e. Involucre of 2 or more lvs. some distance 



below the flower 1. Anemone 



ee. Involucre of 3 sepal-like leaves close to the flower 2. Hepatica 

 eee. Involucre of 3 compound lvs., sessile at base 



of umbel: pistils fewer than in Anemone 3. Anemonella 



dd. Flowers in panicles or corymbs 4. Thalictrum 



cc. True petals present : yellow 5. Ranunculus 



bb. Fruits, follicles. 

 c. Flowers regular. 



d. Petals each spurred 6. Aquilegia 



dd. Petals none: sepals petal-like, yellow 7. Caltha 



ddd. Petals many: fls. very large and of shades of red: 



plant bushy 8. Pseonia 



cc. Flowers irregular; upper sepal spurred; 2 petals 



spurred 9. Delphinium 



bbb. Fruits, berries, red or white. 



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



small, white, in a short raceme 10. Actsea 



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



1. ANEMONE. Anemony. Windflower. 



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 achenes. 



a. Achenes woolly or silky. 



A. japonica, 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. virginiana, 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, J^ in. long. Woods. 



aa. Achenes not woolly or silky. 

 A. quinquefolia, Linn. (A. nemorosa of some). Common windflower. 

 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 broad, 3-lobed. Woods. 



H. triloba, Chaix. Leaves with rounded lobes. 



H. acutiloba, DC. Leaves with acute lobes. 



