American Species of the Genus Anemone. 221 



$ \ Stems single or several from a slender, woody rootstock. 



o Radical leaves simply ternate, the divisions cuneate-obovate, 



crenate or lobed. 



5. Anemone parviflora, Michx. 



A. parviflora, Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., i, 319 (1803). 



A. cuneifolia, Juss., Ann. Mus., iii, 248, t. 21, (1804). 



A. trilobata, Pers. Syn., ii, 97 (1807). 



A. borealis, Richards., Frank. Journ., Ed. 2, App. 22 (1823). 



A. cuneata, Schlecht., Linnsea, 1831, 574. 



A. tenella, Banks, ex Pritz., Linnsea, 1841, 632. 



Sparingly hairy, 10-30 cm. high, from slender rootstocks. Leaves petioled, 

 three-parted, the broadly wedge-shaped divisions obtusely lobed or crenate, 

 those of the involucre nearly sessile, more deeply and narrowly lobed ; flower 

 2^ cm. or less in diameter ; sepals 5-8, oval, very obtuse, white ; head of fruit 

 short-oblong or globose, about 1 cm. long ; style subulate, 1 mm. long. 



Distrib. Anticosti, Labrador, Newfoundland, and Quebec, Lake 

 Superior, Minnesota, Montana, Colorado, British Columbia, and in 

 Arctic America generally to Alaska. Also in eastern Siberia. 



Type of A. parvijlora, Michx., in Herb. Michx.; type of A. 

 cuneifolia, Juss., in Herb. Juss.; type of A. borealis, Richards., in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit. 



o o Radical leaves ternately pinnatified into linear lobes. 



A. Drummondii, S. Wats., Bot. Cal., ii, 424 (1880). 



Tufted, slender, erect, 12-22 cm. high, pubescent with long, app'ressed or 

 slightly spreading hairs. Radical leaves slender-petioled, ternate, the divi- 

 sions pinnatifid into linear, usually short, obtusish lobes and segments ; 

 leaves of the involucre similar, short-petioled ; flowers 1-2, long-peduncled, 

 when 2 the second peduncle involucellate about at the middle ; flowers 1-2 

 cm. broad ; sepals about 5, oval, obtuse, light blue, finely pubescent on the 

 lower side ; head of fruit ovoid, about 1 cm. long ; achenia woolly-pubescent, 

 4 mm. long, tipped with a filiform style of nearly their own length. 



Closely related to A. Baldensis, L. ; of Europe, differing especi- 

 ally in the long, filiform style. 



Distrib. California: Sierra Co. (Lemmon) ; Lassen's Peak (Mrs. 

 Austin); Scott Mt. (Greene, Lemmon); Castle Peak and Siskiyou 

 Co. (Pringle). Oregon : Mt. Hood (T. Howell ; Henderson). 

 British Columbia: Rocky Mts. (Drummond, Richardson); Can- 

 more, Lake Agnes, Kicking Horse Lake, and Mt. Aylmer (Macoun); 

 N. Kootanie Pass (Dawson). 



