WILD FLOWERS OF XEW YORK IO9 



In dry woods and thickets, \>rmont and Ontario to North Dakota, 

 south to Georgia and Arkansas. Flowering from March to May. 



Stiff White Water Crowfoot 



Batrachiiiin circiiiatuni (Sibthorp) Reichenbach 



Plate 79a 



Plant entirely submerged, except the flowers. Stems branching, 

 usually I foot long or longer. Leaves about i inch long, spreading nearly 

 at right angles from the stem, only slightly or not at all collapsing when 

 drawn from the water, repeatedly forked into capillary divisions. Flowers 

 white, one-third of an inch broad on stout peduncles, i to 2 inches long 

 opposite the leaves, flowering just above the surface of the water; sepals and 

 petals five; petals oblong-oval and blunt. Fruit a small cluster of tiny, 

 apiculate achenes. 



In ponds and slow streams. Nova Scotia to British Cohimbia, south 

 to North Carolina, also in Europe and Asia. Flowering from Jime to 

 September. 



The fonn illustrated here has the beak of the achenes about i mm long, 

 so that it should be classed as Batrachium longirostre (Godron) 

 F. Schultz. 



Early Meadow Rue 



Thai ict nun dioicuiii Linnaeus 



Plate 7 1 



Stems glabrous, erect, i to 2 feet high, slender and leafy from brown 

 perennial roots. Leaves three to four-ternate. Leaflets thin, pale beneath, 

 orbicular or broader, often cordate and the terminal one somewhat cuneate 

 five to nine-lobed. Flowers dioecious, greenish or greenish yellow, drooping 

 or spreading; panicle elongated, of numerous lateral corymbs or umbels; 

 sepals usually four, blunt; petals none; stanrens numerous, filaments longer 

 than the sepals; anthers linear, blunt, longer than the filaments. Achenes 

 in fruit ovoid, sessile or minutely stipitate, strongly ribbed, much longer 

 than the style. 



