234 American Species of the Genus Anemone. 



ling the petioles ; sepals oblong, obtuse, longer than the stamens ; achenia 

 several, 4 mm. long, oblong, acute, hairy. 



Distrib. In woods, Nova Scotia to northern Florida, west to 

 Iowa and Missouri. 



The American plant does not appear from herbarium specimens 

 to be different from the European, but I have not seen them grow- 

 ing- together. 



Type, a European specimen in the Linnsean Herbarium. 



2. Hepatica acuta (Pursh). 



Hepatica triloba, var. acuta, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., 391 (1814). 



Hepatica acutiloba, D.C., Prodr., i, 22 (1824). 



Anemone acutiloba, Lawson, Trans. Nov. Sco. Inst., iii, 30 (1870). 



A. acuta, Vail, Mem. Torr. Club, ii, 42 (1890). 



A. Hepatica, var. acuta, Hitch., Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci., v, 482 (1891). 



Acaulescent, 10-22 cm. high, villous, and closely resembling the last, differ- 

 ing in the lobes of the leaves and of the involucre which are acute or acutish, 

 these characters being, however, constant. 



Distrib. In woods, Quebec and throughout Ontario, south in the 

 Alleghanies to Georgia, but rare or absent near the Atlantic coast, 

 west to Iowa and Minnesota. 



I have not seen Pursh's type. The type of Hepatica acutiloba, 

 D.C., is preserved at Geneva. 



The distribution of this and the preceding species has been capi- 

 tally worked but by Mr. C. G. Lloyd (Drugs and Medicines, N. A., 

 i, 40, Plate YI). 



4. CAPETHIA, Britton. 



1. Capethia integrifolia (D.C.). 



Hepatica integrifolia, B.C. Syst., i, 217 (1818). 



Anemone integrifolia, H. B. K., ex D.C., loc. cit., et Wedd. Ghlor. And., ii, 298, 



t. 83, f. A, 1, 2, 3, 4. 

 Hamadryas andicola, Hook., Ic. PI., t. 137 (1837). 



Perennial by a deep, thick, woody root, acaulescent, densely pilose-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves all radical, numerous, petioled, rhombic ovate, or spatulate, 

 entire, obtuse or acutish, 4-9 cm. long, 1-1| cm. wide ; scape naked, shorter 

 than the leaves ; flower 3-4 cm. broad, violet or white ; sepals 10-15, lanceo- 

 late or linear-lanceolate, loosely pubescent ; young carpels very densely 

 pubescent ; style slender, curved at the apex. 



Distrib. High Andes of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Peru: 

 (Ruiz and Pavon ; Gay, 535; Lechler, 2T06 ; Matthews, 1139 



