KANUNCULACE.E. (CROWFOOT FAMILY. ) J 



reticulated, bruadlij orate, entire or ftw-tuuthJ : flowers tenninul, ucKldiug ; 

 the thick purple sejjals an inch long, tununtusc upon the muryin, ncuried at tJie 

 tip : akenes silky ; tlie tails less than an inch lumj, naked above, wilky at Uiae. 



— Proc. Am. Acad. x. 339. Tliis .species was discovereil by Fremout, but 

 with locality unkuowu. It has been rediscovered in Kansas by Dr. Louiu 

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



2. C. Douglasii, Hook. Stem simple or branch' Jg, more or less villoiiij, 

 woolly at the joints : leares from pinnate tu 2 or S-jiin itijid ; the UajU ts lint ar or 

 linear-lanceolate: sepals thick, deep purple wit, >iu, paler externally, uoUly 

 at the apex, and spreadinr/: akenes silky; the tails an inch or more in UnylL 



— From Colorado to Washington. 



Var. Scottii. A form with leaflets ovate or lanceolate, aud tips of seimla 

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

 orado and northward. 



H- -1- Stem climbing, more or less woody. 



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

 long: leaves pinnate aud teruate, mostly 5-foliolate ; the leaflets oblong, 

 acute, mostly somewhat lanceolate-cuneate, incisely tootlied aud trilid : 

 flowers white, in paniculate corymbs, dicecious : sepals thiu, equalling the 

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

 aud Oregon, and also in California. Climbing over bushes aud produciug a 

 great abundance of white flowers. 



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



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

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

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

 bearing petals linear: akenes glabrous. —Powell's (ieol. Black Ilill.s. p. Ml. 

 The C. alpina, var. Ochotensis, of tiie various Western reports. From Mew 

 Mexico to the Wasatch and Teton Mountains. 



5. C. Verticillaris, DC. Climbing: leaves trifoliolale, with leaflets 

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

 with the thiu bluisli-purple sepals widely spreading. — From California to 

 Maine, and from the Wasatch and L'inta Mountains to iJriti.sh America. 



2. ANEMONE, L. Wind-flow lr. 



Sepals colored and petal-like. Style short and stigma lateral. Akon<' 

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

 radical leaves. ' 



* Al-enes trith long bearded tails. 



1. A. patens, L.,var. Nuttalliana, Gray. Villous with loner silVr hair* : 

 flower erect, ileveloped before the leaves; which are tcrnately divided, the 

 lateral divisions 2-parted, tlie middle one stalked and 3-parted. the .segineni.H 

 deeply once or twice cleft into narrowly linear aud acute lolwis: pojmls 5 

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

 Wisconsin. 



