Aneinime. llANl'XCULACE.i:. H 



short, oiice (or more rarely twice) palraati fid-cleft to below the middle ; segments linear, 

 mostly entire : sepals greenish white to pink : head of carpels in fruit cyliudraccous (three 

 fourths to one and a half inclics long) : style not half the length of the orbicular flat akene, 

 at length inflexcd, completely covered by the wool of the akene. — Aniniad. Alt. 27; 

 L. Mant. 79; DC. Syst. i. 200; Brilton, 1. c. 218. A. trilobula, Juss. Ann. Mus. iii. 24s, 

 t. 21,f. 3. A. heteiofthy/la, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 12 (under A. Curolituanu, var. 

 heteiophylla). A. Berlandivri, Pritz. Linnaja, xv. 628. .1. Curoliiiianu, Coulter, Coutrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 8, at least in part. — Arkansas and Texas, Berliniclin; WrUjIU, Thurlnr, 

 Jieixrclion, and according to I'rof. liritton east to Alabama and nortli to the Great I'laius. 

 (Mex., Extr. Trop. S. Am.) 



A.* sphenoph;^lla, Pcepp. Hal)it and most of the characters of the last : leaves glal)rate 

 or nearly so, o-1'oliolate ; divisions commonly cleft into ratlier narrow sometimes even linear- 

 lanceolate acutish segments ; leave.s of tlie involucre (witii rare exceptions) sub-similar to 

 the biisal leaves in outline and segmentation, and not so strikingly reduced in size a.s in the 

 preceding: flowers sometimes solitary but more commonly 2-3(-4) from the same involu- 

 cre.— Frag. Syn.27; Hritton, 1. c. 220 ; Coville, Coutrib. U.S'Nat. Ilerli.iv. 56. .1. decu/ielala. 

 Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 3, t. 1 ; Gray in Ives, Colorado Rep. Bot. 5, excl. syn. in part, not 

 Ard. — W. Arkansas, Harvej/ ; W. Texas, Thurber, to Arizona, Smuvl, Prtnylt ; Utah, Wal- 

 Son, Parry, Jnhnson, and Panamint Mts., S. Calif., Corille & Funston. (Chili.) 



A. Caroliniana, Walt. A span or two high from a globular small tuber (which is pro- 

 duced at the apex of a flagelliform subterranean shoot) : slender stem one-flowered, usually 

 bearing the simply palmatifid involucre mucii below the middle: sepals purple, blue, or 

 white: head of carpels short-oblong or barely cylindraceous in fruit (usually lialf inch 

 long) : style about the length of the ovate ratlier turgid akene, erect, its slender tip pro- 

 jecting from the wool, more deciduous. — Car. 157; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 12 (excl. var. 

 heterophylla) ; Torr. in Marcy, Kep. t. 1; Meehan, Native Flowers, ser. 1, i. 165, t. 42. 

 A. tenella, Pursh, Fl. ii. 386. — Sandy soil, Florida to N. Carolina, Illinois, Dakota, and 

 southwest to Texas, thus partly accompanying the preceding but iu different soil ; fl. earlv 

 spring. 



A. WAlteri, Pursh, Fl. ii. 387, founded wholly on Walter's character of his Thallctrum 

 Carolinianum, is quite obscure, no specimen being extant. If an Anemone it might be referred 

 to A. Caroliniana, except for the pentasepalous flower. 



•*— -t— -I— Plants 1 to 3 feet high from a caudex, few-several-flowered : sepals mostlv 5, oval 

 or obovate, seldom over half inch long, white or greenish white, sericeous canescent out- 

 side : style subulate, shorter and stout, wholly or mainly persistent on the semi-obovate 

 akene : involucral leaves similar to the radical and petioled, palraately or pedately 3-5- 

 divided and the divisions 2-3-cleft and incisely toothed ; fl. summer. 

 A. cylindrica, Gray. Somewhat silky-pubescent, strict : divisions and lobes of the leaves 

 mostly cuneate-lanceolate : involucre iu depauperate plauts 3-5-leaved and 1-2-flowered, but 

 usually 5-9-leaved and 2-6-flowered, with very long and naked umbellate peduncles (the 

 involucels if any being basal and making a part of the general involucre), or occasionally 

 one of the peduncles involucellate at the middle : head of carpels in fruit cylindricjil, inch or 

 more long, very woolly; the short somewhat recurved styles slightly projecting. — Ann. 

 Lye, N, Y. iii. 220; Torr. & Gray, ¥]. i. 13. — Dry ground, New Brun.swick to Montana and 

 Saskatchewan, south to New Jersey and New Mexico. 

 A. Virginiana, L. More loosely pubescent or glal)rate: divisions and lobes of the le.ives 

 riiouibic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate: involucre 2-3-leaved, subtending a solitary and elong:ited 

 naked peduncle and one or sometimes two proliferous ones, i. e. involucellate at the middle, 

 and these again often proliferous, thus continuing long in blossom: .sepals usually greenish 

 white and only half inch long, sometimes enlarging and bright white: head of carpels in 

 fruit ovate or oblong, thick, as it were muricatc by the projection of the conspicuous stout 

 styles, the apex of the akenes also naked. — Spec. i. 540; (jiertn. Fruct. i. t. 74; Hook. Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. i. 7, t. 4 ; Torr. & Gray. 1. c. ; Meehan, Native Flowers, ser 2, i. 93. t. 23. A. hirsuta, 

 Moeuch, Meth. Suppl. 105. — Moist ground, New Brunswick to S. Carolina, and northwest to 

 the Rocky Mountains and lat. 55°. 



* * Akenes naked (when mature), orbicular, much compressed, wing-margined : si pals 

 5, obovate, white, half inch or more long : involucre closely sessile, palmately parteil or 

 cleft. 



