RANUNCULACE^E. 



Stem-leaves in a whorl of 3, long-petioled, 8-5-parted. Sepals 

 4-7, oval, white, or often purplish on the back. Moist 

 places. 



3. HEPAT'ICA, Dill. LJVEB-LEAF. HEPATICA. 



1. H. aeutil'oba, DC. (SHARP-LOBED H.) Leaves with 3 

 (sometimes 5) acute lobes, appearing after the flowers. 

 Petioles silky-hairy. Woods in spring. 



2. H. tril'oba, Chaix. (RouND-LOBED H.) Leaves with 3 

 rounded lobes ; those of the involucre also obtuse. Dry 

 rich woods in spring. 



(The two species just described are included under ANEMONE in 

 Macoun's Catalogue, the first named being A. acutiloba, Lawson, and 

 the second A. Hepatica, L.) 



4. Til A. Lit" Tit I'M, Tourn. MEADOW-RUE. 



1. T. anemonoi'des, Michx. (Anemonella thalictroides, 

 Spach.) (E0E- ANEMONE.) Stem low. Stem-leaves all in a 

 whorl at the top. Roots tuberous. Flowers several in an 

 umbel, by which character this plant is easily distinguished 

 from Wood Anemone, which it otherwise resembles. South- 

 westward, in spring. 



2. T. dioi'eum, L. (EARLY M.) Stem smooth, pale and 

 glaucous. 1-2 feet high, flowers dicecious, in ample panicles, 

 purplish or greenish ; the yellow anthers drooping and very 

 conspicuous. Leaves alternate, decompound ; leaflets with 

 5-7 rounded lobes. Woods. 



3. T. polyg'amum, Muhl. (T. Cornuti, L.) (TALL M.) 

 Stem smooth or nearly so, 2-6 feet high. Leaves sessile; 

 leaflets very much like No. 2. Flowers white, in compound 

 panicles ; anthers not drooping ; filaments club-shaped. 

 Low wet meadows, and along streams. 



4. T. puppuras'eens, L. (PURPLISH M.) Stem mostly 

 purplish, 2-4 feet high. Stem-leaves sessile or nearly so ; 

 leaflets veiny beneath, often glandular- pubescent, and so 

 distinguished from No. 3. Flowers resfmbling those of 

 No. 2. 



