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Thalictrum 



megacarpum 



Torr. 



Veiny 



Meadow 



Rue. 



a conspicuous feature of many an alpine 

 meadow during early June. 



Smooth, pale green, and glaucous ; 

 stem purplish, erect, 6-18 inches 

 tall. Leaves 3-4 ternate, long- 

 petioled, leaflets firm, obovate, 

 rounded at the apex, wedge- 

 shaped or subcordate at the base, 

 \-\ an inch long, 3~5-lobed, the lower surface 

 prominently veined. Flowers dioecious, with 

 4 or 5 small, purplish-green sepals and large, 

 linear, wedge-shaped anthers or slender 

 styles; the achenes wedge-shaped and taper- 

 ing into a short beak. 



A frequent plant in the dry open valleys 

 in the Rockies at the lower altitudes ; flower- 

 ing in June. 



Thalictrum 

 occidentale 



A. Gray. 

 Western 

 Meadow 

 Rue. 



Stems slender, 1-3 feet high. 

 Leaves 2-4 ternate, the lowest 

 petioled ; leaflets thin, J to nearly 

 an inch long, 3-9 lobed at the 

 summit, sparingly glandular- 

 hairy beneath. Flowers dice- 



