EANUNCULACE^E. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 3 



reticulated, broadly ovate, entire or few-toothed : floAvers terminal, nodding ; 

 the thick purple sepals an inch long, tomentose upon the margin, recurved at the 

 tip : akenes silky ; the tails less than an inch long, naked above, silky at base. 



Proc. Am. Acad. x. 339. This species was discovered by Fremont, but 

 with locality unknown. It has been rediscovered in Kansas by Dr. Louis 

 Watson and others, and is the western representative of C. ochroleaca. 



2. C. Douglasii, Hook. Stem simple or branching, more or less villous, 

 woolly at the joints : leaves from pinnate to 2 or 3-pinnatifid ; the leaflets linear or 

 linear-lanceolate: sepals thick, deep purple within, paler externally, woolly 

 at the apex, and spreading : akenes silky ; the tails an inch or more in length. 



From Colorado to Washington Territory. 



Var. Scottii. A form with leaflets ovate or lanceolate, and tips of sepals 

 more reflexed and probably less woolly. C. Scottii, Porter, Fl. Col. 1. Col- 

 orado and northward. 



-t- -H- Stem climbing, more or less woody. 



3. C. ligusticifolia, Nutt. Nearly glabrous : stems sometimes very 

 long : leaves pinnate and ternate, mostly 5-foliolate ; the leaflets oblong, 

 acute, mostly somewhat lanceolate-cuneate, incisely toothed and trifid : 

 flowers white, in paniculate corvmbs, dioecious : sepals thin, equalling the 

 stamens. Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 9. From New Mexico to the Saskatchewan 

 and Oregon, and also in California. Climbing over bushes and producing a 

 great abundance of white flowers. 



* * Some of the outer filaments enlarging to small petals: stems woody. 



4. C. alpina, Mill., var. OCCidentalis, Gray. Trailing, nearly glabrous : 

 leaves biternately divided; segments ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 frequently 3-lobed, irregularly toothed : sepals purplish-blue, thin : anther- 

 bearing petals linear: akeues glabrous. Powell's Geol. Black Hills, p. 531. 

 The C. alpina, var. Ochotensis, of the various Western reports. From New 

 Mexico to the Wahsatch and Teton Mountains. 



5. C. verticillaris, DC. Climbing: leaves trifoliolate, with leaflets 

 about as in the last, but ofteuer entire : the flowers 2 to 3 inches across, 

 with the thin bluish-purple sepals widely spreading. From California to 

 Maine, and from the Wahsatch and Uinta Mountains to British America. 



2. ANEMONE, L. WIND-FLOWEB. 



Sepals colored and petal-like. Style short and stigma lateral. Akenes 

 compressed, pointed or ending in long feathery awns. Perennial herbs with 

 radical leaves. 



* Akenes with long bearded tails. 



1 . A. patens, L., var. Nuttalliana, Gray. Villous with long silky hairs : 

 flower erect, developed before the leaves; which are ternately divided, the 

 lateral divisions 2-parted, the middle one stalked and 3-parted, the segments 

 deeply once or twice cleft into narrowly linear and acute lobes : sepals 5 

 to 7, purplish or whitish. From the mountains eastward into Illinois and 

 Wisconsin. 



