4 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



and all again dissected into narrow lobes. Feathery tails 

 of the carpels 2 inches long. A low plant, flowering in 

 early spring. N. W. 



** Styles short, not plumose. 



2. A. parviflo'ra, Miohx. (SMALL-FLOWERED A.) Stem 

 8-12 inches high, one-flowered. Sepals 5 or 6, white. Invo- 

 lucre 2-3-leaved far below the flower. Head of carpels 

 woolly, globular. Root-leaves small, 3-parted, their divi- 

 sions crenately lobed. Rocky river-margins. 



3. A. multif'ida, DC. (MANY-CLEFT A.) Silky-hairy. 

 Principal involucre 2-3-leaved, bearing one naked and one 

 or two 2-leaved peduncles. Leaves of the involucre short- 

 petioled, twice or thrice 3-parted and cleft, their divisions 

 linear. Sepals red, greenish -yellow, or whitish. Head of 

 carpels spherical or oval, woolly. Rocky river-margins, etc. 



4. A. eylin'driea, Gray. (LONG-FRUITED A.) Carpels 

 very numerous, in an oblong woolly head about an inch 

 long. Peduncles 2-6, long, upright, leafless. Stem-leaves 

 in a whorl, twice or thrice as many as the peduncles, long- 

 petioled. Sepals 5, greenish-white. Plant about two feet 

 high, clothed with silky hairs. Dry woods. 



5. A. Virginia'na, L. (VIRGINIAN A.) Very much like 

 the last, but larger. Also, the central peduncle only is 

 naked, the others having each a pair of leaves about the 

 middle, from whose axils other peduncles occasionally 

 spring. Sepals greenish. Head of carpels oval or oblong. 

 Dry rocky woods and river banks. 



6. A. Pennsylvan'iea, L. (A.dichotoma,L., in Macoun's 

 Catalogue.) (PENNSYLVANIAN A.) Carpels fewer and the 

 head not woolly, but pubescent and spherical. Stem-leaves 

 sessile, primary ones 3 in a whorl, but only a pair of smaller 

 ones on each side of the flowering branches. Radical leaves 

 5-7-parted. Sepals 5, obovate, large and white. Plant 

 hairy, scarcely a foot high. Low meadows. 



7. A. nemoro'sa, L. (Wooo A. WIND-FLOWER.) Plant 

 not more than six inches high, nearly smooth, one-flowered. 



