CLASS XIII. ORDER VI. 237 



Variety a. Lobes of the leaves obtuse. Mount Auburn, 

 Brookline. — April, May. 

 fl. Lobes acute. On the Ascutney mountain. — May, 

 June. 



24S. ANEMONE. 

 Anemone nemorosa. Mich. Wood Anemone. 



Seeds pointed ; leaves three ; leafets lobed ; stem 

 one flowered. 



This species and the next are among the earliest flowers of 

 spring, appearing in April, and continuing through the month of 

 May. In this the root is creeping. Stem erect, supporting a 

 single flower on its summit, and three compound leaves given off" 

 in a whorl below. Leafets toothed and lobed, paler underneath. 

 Flower of five petals, which are white, shaded with purple on 

 the outside. The whole plant is acrimonious to the taste. — In 

 woods and about fences, very common. — Perennial. 

 Anemone Thalictroides. L. Rue leaved Anemone. 



Flowers umbelled ; stem leaves simple, whorled : 

 root leaves twice ternate. L. 

 Syn. Thalictrxjm Anemonoides. Mich. 



Readily distinguished from the last by its number of flowers. 

 Root tuberous. Stem upright, simple, divided at top into a sort 

 of umbel, of several flowers accompanied by a number of simple 

 heart shaped, three lobed leaves, the petioles of which coalesce 

 so as to form a sort of involucre. The leaves which proceed 

 from the root are compound, usually three times ternate. Flow- 

 ers white, petals varying in number ; the largest flowers having 

 eight or ten. — Woods and pastures. — April, May. — Perennial. 



" A plant of doubtful genus." Hooker. 

 Anemone Virginiana. L. T'all Anemone. 



Stem branched ; petioles three leaved, leafets cnt- 

 lobed, serrate ; flower stalks wand-like ; seeds in an 

 oblong ovate head, woolly. Mich. 



A tall, very straight plant, unlike in its habit to those described. 

 Stem two or three feet high, round, hairy ; leaves ternate, deeply 



