Anemone. RANUNCULACEJE. 9 



var. Ochotensis, Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 241. Clematis Psendu-Alrat/ene, Kuntze, 



1. c. 160, with sonin of C. alpina also. — Rocky Mouiitaius, from New Mexico to Dakota ami 

 ■Washington. 



Var. tenuiloba, Gray, Apparently very low : leaflets ilisaected into narrow lanceo- 

 late ilivisious and lohes : otherwise as in the ordinary Am. plant. — (iray in Powell, Geol. 

 Surv. Eep. Dakota (1880), 531, aa subvar. — Black Ililld of Dakota, Jtnm^j.^ 



2. ANEMONE, Tourn. Anemone, Ank.monv, Wind-flowek. (Tlie 

 ancient Greek and Latin name, from dvc/xo-j, to be blcwn upon or shaken by the 

 wind.) — Perennial herbs of the cooler parts of the world, mostly low, and 

 .showy flowered. — DC. Syst. i. I88.2 Anemone & I'uisutillu, Tourn. Inst. 27.'), 

 284, t. 147, 148. L. Gen. nos. 458, 459. 



§ 1. Pulsatilla, Tourn. (as genus). Carpels with long filiform styles, very 

 villous, becoming plumose tails to the akenes : flower large, solitary on a scape 

 bearing a Avhorled involucre. — Inst. 264, t. 148 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 17. §§ Pulsn- 

 iilla & Preonanthus, DC. Prodr. i. 16, 17. 



* Involucre wholly sessile and mostly connate at base by tlie union of its three simply 

 palmately niultifid reduced leaves : a few small spatulate staraiuodes outside of the true 

 stamens. — § Pulsatilla, DC, &c. 



A. patens, L. Soft-villous, glabrate in age : scapiform stem a span higli and in fruit mncli 

 taller : flower erect : i^epals 5 to 7, violet, sometimes whitish, widely spreading in sunshine : 

 mature carpel-tails inch and a half long: involucre connate at base, parted into numerous 

 narrowly linear lobes: radical leaves developed a little later than the flower, palmately 

 3-foliolate, with the divisions 3-parted and commonly again 3-cleft into lanceolate lobes. — 

 Spec. i. 538 ; DC. Syst. i. 191 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1994 (var. ockroleum). Pulsatilla patens. 

 Mill. Diet. ed. 8; Keichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. iv. t. 57. (Ku., N. A.sia.) 



Var. Nuttalliana, Gkav. Lobes of the leaves linear or nearly so: flower mostly 

 pale. — Man. ed. 5, 36; Mcjjhan, Xative Flowers, ser. I, i. t. 13. A. /lalens, Hook. Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. i. 4 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 11, &c. A. Ludociciuna, Nutt. Gen. ii. 20. A. Xitttallii, DC. 

 Syst. i. 193 ; Nutt. Journ. Acad. Philad. v. t. 8. Pulsatilla Nuttalliana, Spreug. Syst. ii 60.T ; 

 Gray, Man. ed. 2, 4. P. patens. Gray, Gen. 111. i. 18, t. 3. P. patens, var. ]]\hi/aw/ian<i, 

 Kegel, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxiv. 1861, pt. 2, 21. Clematis hirsutissiina, Pursh, Fl. ii. 3!<5.^ - 

 Prairies and plains, Illinois- and Missouri to Colorado, Montana, and north to the Arctic 

 Circle ; fl. early spring (N.Asia.) 



* * Involucre of two or three compound more or less petiolate and petiolulate leaves : no 

 staminodes: sepals thin, brightlv colored, widely spreading. — § Preonanthus, DC. 

 Prodr. i. 17. 



A. OCCidentalis, Watsox. From a span or two becoming 2 feet liigh. soft-villous. in age 

 glabrate : radical and involucral leaves biteruately compound iind the divisions onco or twire 

 pinnately cleft into narrowly lanceolate or linear lobes : sepals 6 or 7, oval, white or purjdisli. 

 often inch long: receptacle oblong-conical, becoming cylindrical (an incli or more long) 

 in fruit: carpel-tails often inch and a half long, at length recurved. — Proc. .Am. \cad. xi. 

 121, & Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 3. A. alpina. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. .-. ; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 11, not L.*— High mountains of the Sierra Nevada (La&sen, Shasta. &.v.)." 

 California, first coll by Brewer, to tlie Caswxdes, and Northern Rocky Mountains near British 

 boundary to Kotzebue Sound. 



§ 2. EuANEMONE. Carpels with short and not plumose styles: no obvious 

 staminodes. — Anemone, Tourn. Inst. 275, t. 147. 



1 An<l recently rediscovered in the same region by R;/dhenf. 



2 Further important literature: Fritzel, Aneni. Revis. Linnnea, xv. .561-fii»S; Prantl in Engl, k 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 2, 61, 62; Britton, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vi. 21.5. 



8 Add syn. Pidsnfilln hirsuiissima, Britlon, 1. c. 217. 



* Add syn. PulsatiUa occidentaits, Frevn, Deutsclie Bot. Monat.s.ichr. viii. 7S. 

 6 Southward to Mineral King, Tulare Co., Calif., Coville «t Funston. 



