Anemone. RANUNCULACE.E; o 



§ 1. Petals none. — Clematis proper. 



1 . C. ligusticifolia, Nutt. Nearly glabrous : stems elongated (sometimes 30 feet 

 long) : leaves 5-foliulate ; leaflets broadly ovate to lanceolate, 1 ^ to 3 inches long, 

 acute or acuminate, 3-lobed and coarsely toothed, rarely entire or 3-parted : flowers 

 dioecious, paniculate : sepals thin, silky, white, 4 to 6 lines long : akenes pubescent ; 

 tails 1 to 2 inches long. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 9. 



Var. Californica, Watson. Leaves silky-tomentose beneath, often small. 

 The typical form ranges from Oregon to the Saskatchewan and New Mexico, entering Cali- 

 fornia on the northeast ; the variety from San Diego to the Sacramento, and to Arizon'a. 



2. C. lasiantha, Nutt. 1. c. Silky tomentose : stems elongated, stout : leaflets 

 3, ovate, 1 to U inches long, acute, coarsely toothed or 3-lobed or the terminal 

 3-parted : flowers dioecious, solitary, on rather stout 1 - 2-bracted peduncles : sepals 

 obtuse, thickish, 6 to 10 lines long : akenes pubescent. 



Santa Barbara to Napa Co., and m the Sierra Nevada to Plumas Co., Mrs. M. E. Palsifer Ames. 



3. C. pauciflora, Nutt. 1. c. Somewhat silky-pubescent : stems more slender, 

 short-jointed : leaves short and fascicled ; leaflets 3 to 5, only 3 to 'J lines long, 

 cuneate-obovate to cordate, mostly 3-toothed or -lobed : flowers solitary or few and 

 panicled, on slender pedicels : sepals thin, 4 to 6 lines long : akenes glabrous. 



San Diego, Nuttall, Cooi^r, Cleveland. 



C. Drummondii, Torr. & Gray, a similar species, but with long-petioled and not fascicled leaves, 

 — leaflets lanceolate to ovate, long-acuminate and 3-lobed ; akenes pubescent, with tails 2 to 4 

 inches long, — probably enters S. E. California from Arizona and Sonora. 



§ 2. Some of the outer filaments enlarging to small sjmtulate jietals. — Atragene, DC. 



4. C. verticillaris, DC. A slender climber, almost glabrous : leaves ternate ; 

 leaflets ovate or subcordate, pointed : flowers solitary, bluish-purple, 2 or 3 inches 

 across : the outer stamens enlarging to narrow petals. 



Shaded rocky places in mountains, Cajje JMendocino {Douglas) ; east to Maine, and nortli to 

 British America. Leaflets 2 inches long, commonly entire ; but sometimes those on sterile stems 

 are 1 - 3-toothed or lobed. Peduncles 3 to 6 inches long, the flower commonly nodding. 



2. ANEMONE, Linn. 



Sepals 4 to 20, colored and petal-like, imbricated in the bud. Petals none. 



Pistils numerous : style short : stigma lateral. Ovule suspended. Akenes in a headj 



compressed, pointed, or ending in long feathery awns. — Erect perennial herbs with 



lobed or divided leaves, which are all radical except those which form an involucre, 



usually some distance below the flower. 



Species about 70, mostly belonging to the mountains of the north temperate and arctic zones. 

 Of the 15 North American species half a dozen are also found either in the Old World or in the 

 Andes of South America. 



* Styles long and hairy, at length forming plumose tails. — Pulsatilla, Tourn. 



1. A. OCCidentalis, "Watson. More or less silky-villous, aljune : stems stout, 

 i to H feet high, 1-flowered : radical leaves large, long-petioled, biternate and pin- 

 nate, the lateral primary divisions nearly sessile, the segments pinnatihd with nar- 

 row laciniately toothed lobes : involucral leaves similar, nearly sessile about the 

 middle of the stem : sepals 6 or 7, 6 to 9 lines long, white or purplish at base : 

 receptacle conical, becoming much elongated, sometimes 1^ inches long: akenes 

 linear-oblong, the tails at length 1^^- inches long, reflexed. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 121. 

 A. aljyina, Hook. Fl. i. 5, not Linn. 



Mt. Shasta {Breivcr) ; Lassen's Peak (Lemmon) ; and northward to the British boundary. 

 Perhaps it is also the A. alpina of arctic collectors from Kotzebue Sound and the Gulf of St. 



