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1 T. diSicum, L. Early Meadow Rue. 



Stemib smooth; 12-18 inches high; leaflets thin, Ught green, drooping; 

 9f?pal3 purplish or greenish white. Common, Man.-Alta. 



2. T. dasycarpum, Fisch. and Lall. 



Stem purplish, 1^-3 ft. high; leaflets mostly 3-toothed, often finely pubes- 

 cent beneath; sepals and thread-like filaments purplish white. Common 

 about the edge of groves, Man.-Alta. 



4. MYOSURUS. Mouse-tail. 



Sepals 5-spurred; petals 5, on a slender claw; stamens 5-20; 

 aohenes numerous and crowded on a very long, spike-like receptacle; 

 flowers greenish. Low tufted annuals with linear root leaves and 

 naked l-flowered scapes. 



1. M. minimus, L. 



Fruiting spike J-2J inches long. Moist rich ground. Southern Man. 

 and westward. 



5. ANEMONE. Anemone. 



Sepals usually few and petal-like; petals wanting or stamen-like; 

 fruit an achene sometimes with a long tail. Perennial herbs with 

 radical leaves and a whorl of 2 or 3 stem leaves forming a sort of 

 involucre below the flower. 



1. A. patens, L. ; var. Wolfgangiana, (Bess.) Koch. Pasque Flowek. 



Flower erect, solitary, appearing in early spring before the leaves, silky 

 pubescent; involucre deeply cleft; leaves of 3 divisions, the middle division 

 stalked, and each division deeply cleft; sepals 5-7, pale blue, spreading and 

 turning whitish with age; fruit an achene with a long feathery tail formed 



from the elongated style. Prairies, early spring, common, Man.-Alta. 



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2. A. multifida, Poir. 



Stem hairy, 4-12 in. high; involucre of 2 or 3 short-petioled leaves 

 bearing one naked and one or two 2-leaved peduncles; flowers red or occa- 

 sionally greenish white; fruit head globular. Dry prairies, local, Man.- 

 Alta. and northward. 



3. A. cyltndrica, Gray. 



Stem slender, 6-15 in. high, pubescent; flowers 2-6, borne on long, upright 

 peduncles springing from an involucre composed of 2 or 3 times as many 

 3-parted leaves as there are peduncles; root leaves long-petiolcd; sepals 

 5, greenish white; 'fruit head cylindrical, Dry prairies, Man.-Alta, 



