CROWFOOT FAMILY. Ranunculaceae. 



bead usually 1 inch or less across, is succeeded by the 

 enlarged fruit-head similar in shape to, and about as 

 large as, a good-sized thimble. Fertilized by the bum- 

 blebees, the smaller bees (among them the honeybee), 

 and the brilliant little flies of the genus Syrphidce. 2-3 

 feet high. Me. , south to S. Car. , west to Kan. , Neb. , and 

 S. Dak. Found in Campton, N. H. 



A slender, tall, and handsome plant in- 

 Large White- 

 flowered termediate between the two preceding 



Anemone species, with large white flowers maturing 



Anemone earlier than those of the foregoing, and 



ripana with smoother stem and leaves ; the latter 



wwte thin, and unequally cleft into coarsely and 



June-July sharply toothed segments. The five thin 

 sepals generally obtuse and a strong white. 

 The short cylindrical fruit-head slenderer than that of 

 A. Virginiana. 12-35 inches high. Banks of rivers and 

 streams, and on rocky banks, from the St. John River, 

 Fort Kent, Me., Willoughby Lake and western Vt., 

 Uxbridge, Mass., to western N. Y. and Sullivan Co., 

 N. Y. (M. L. Fernald, Rliodora, vol. i., p. 51). Found 

 on the borders of the pond near the Arondack Spring, 

 Saratoga, N. Y. 



A northern, rather coarse stemmed spe- 



Anemone c * es ' verv mu ch branched, with broad, 



Anemone sharply toothed, three-cleft leaves ; their 



Canadensis under surfaces rather hairy. The five 



white sepals quite blunt, and the flower 1- 



1J inches broad. The fruit-head globular. 



1-2 feet high. Low moist grounds, from western N. 



Eng., south to Pa., and west to Kan. and S. Dak. 



Common in western Vt., along the slopes of Lake 



Champlam. 



A silky-hairy plant of the west, bearing 

 Pasque Flower . * 



Anemone patens a Sm ^ le erecfc P ale vlolet O1 * Bender-white 



var. Wolf- flower of 5-6 sepals (not petals) an inch 



gangiana more or less long. The leaves divided into 



Pale violet many narrow linear lobes, the one below 

 the flower stemless, the basal ones slender- 

 stemmed. Fruiting head like Clematis, the silky achenes 

 (seeds) with long feathery tails. 6-14 inches high. 

 Prairies, Wis., 111., and Tex. west. 

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