CROWFOOT FAMILY. Ranunculaceas. 



head usually 1 inch or less across, is succeeded by the 

 enlarged fruit-head similar in shape to, and about as 

 large as, a good-sized thimble. Fertilized by the bum- 

 blebees, the smaller bees (among them the honeybee), 

 and the brilliant little flies of the genus SyrphidcE. 2-3 

 feet high. Me. , south to S. Car. , west to Kan. , Neb. , and 

 S. Dak. Found in Campton, N. H. 



A slender, tall, and handsome plant in- 

 My^^^ d ' ^ termediate between the two preceding 

 Anemone species, with large white flowers maturing 



Anemone earlier than those of the foregoing, and 



riparia with smoother stem and leaves ; the latter 



wtrt^ ' thin, and unequally cleft into coarsely and 



June-July sharply toothed segments. The fiv^e thin 



sepals generally obtuse and a stroiig white. 

 The short cylindrical fruit-head slenderer than that of 

 A. Virginiana. 12-35 inches high. Banks of rivers and 

 streams, and on rocky banks, from the St. John River, 

 Fort Kent, Me., Willoughby Lake and western Vt., 

 Uxbridge, Mass., to western N. Y. and Sullivan Co., 

 N. Y. (M. L. Fernald, Rhodora, vol. i., p. 51). Found 

 on the borders of the pond near the Arondack Spring, 

 Saratoga, N. Y. 



A northern, rather coarse stemmed spe- 

 Anemone ci^^, very much branched, with broad, 



Anemone sharply toothed, three-cleft leaves ; their 



Canadensis under surfaces rather hairy. The five 

 ^•^'^^ white sepals quite blunt, and the flower 1- 



May-August ^, .^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^j^^ fruit-head globular. 



1-2 feet high. Low moist grounds, from western N. 

 Eng., south to Pa., and west to Kan. and S. Dak. 

 Common in western Vt., along the slopes of Lake 

 Champlain. 



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