American Species of the Genus Anemone. 233 



ooo Chilian species. 



28. Anemone hepaticifolia, Hook. 



A. hepaticifolia, Hook., Ic. PI., t. 1 (1837). 



Roots fibrous. Stem erect, rather stout, hirsute with spreading hairs, 

 30-65 cm. high ; radical leaves petioled, 5-10 cm. long, hastate, 3-lobed, 

 thick, hirsute, especially beneath, the lobes acutish, angular-dentate ; petioles 

 hirsute, about equalling the leaves ; leaves of the involucre sessile, lanceolate, 

 deeply lobed, 3-6 cm. long ; flowers umbellate, 2-4 cm. broad, yellow ; sepals 

 5, spreading, elliptic-obovate ; achenia ellipsoid, gelatinous, tipped with a 

 short, recurved style. 



Distrib. Chili: (Gay; Philippi, 2*7*7; Cuming; Lechler, 556); Bay 

 of Yaldivia (Bridges, 579); Cerros de Corral, 1000 feet (Pearce). 

 Type in the Kew Herbarium. 



Excluded or Dubious Species. 



Anemone nudicaulis, A. Gray, Bot. Gaz., xi, 17 (1886), from 

 Lake Superior, is Ranunculus Lapponicus, L., according to the 

 original specimens in Herb. Gray. It was described from fruiting 

 specimens only. 



Anemone anomala, Raf. PL Lud., 82 (1817). " Poliis ternis, 

 sessilibus, incisis, floribus pentapetalis, petalis inequalibus," based 

 on Anemone, No. 2, Robin, Voy. Louisiane, iii, 463, is wholly un- 

 known. As the flowers are said by Robin to be irregular it proba- 

 bly belongs to some different genus. 



3. HEPATICA, L. Gen. PI., 162 (1737). 

 1. Hepatica Hepatica (L.). 



Anemone Hepatica, L. Sp. PI., 538 (1753). 



Hepatica triloba, Chaix in Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph., i, 336 (1786). 



H. triloba, var. Americana, D.C. Syst., i, 216 (1818). 



H. Americana, Ker, Bot. Reg., t. 387 (1819). 



A. Americana, ex Nichols., Diet. Gtard., i, 74. 



Acaulescent, 10-15 cm. high, villous, roots fibrous. Radical leaves long- 

 petioled, reniform, 5-6 cm. broad when mature, spreading and declined on the 

 ground, three-lobed, and the lobes sometimes toothed or again lobed, obtuse ; 

 involucre calyx-like, of three sessile, obtuse, oblong leaves immediately under 

 the flower ; flowers purple or white, 12-25 mm. broad, on peduncles about equal- 



