RANUNCULACE>E. 5 



Stem-leaves in a whorl of 3, long-petioled, 3-5-parted. Sepals 

 4-7, oval, white, or often purplish on the back. — Moist 

 places. 



3. HEPAT'ICA, Dill. Livek-leap. Hepatica. 



1. H. aeutil'oba, DC. (Sharp-lobed H.) Leaves with 3 

 (sometimes 5) acute lobes, appearing after the flowers. 

 Petioles silky-hairy. — Woods in spring. 



2. H. trll'Oba, Chaix. (EotTND-LOBED H.) Leaves with 3 

 rounded lobes ; those of the involucre also obtuse. — Dry 

 rich woods in spring. 



(The two species just described are included under Anemone In 

 Macoun's Catalogue, tile first named being A. acutUoba, Lawson, and 

 the second A. Hepatica^ L.) 



4. TnALIC'TRUII, Tourn. Meadow-Bhe. 



1. T. anemonoi'des, Miohx. {Anemonella thalictroides, 

 Spach.) (EuE- Anemone.) Stem low. Stem-leaves aU. in a 

 whorl at the top. Moots tuberous. Flowers several in an 

 umbel, by which character this plant is easily distinguished 

 from Wood Anemone, which it otherwise resembles. — South- 

 westward, in spring. 



2. T. dioi'eum, L. (Early M.) Stem smooth, pale and 

 glaucous. 1-2 feet high, flowers dicecious, in ample panicles, 

 purplish or greenish ; the yellow anthers drooping and very 

 conspicuous. Leaves alternate, decompound ; leaflets with 

 5-7 rounded lobes. — Woods. 



3. T. polyg'amum, Muhl. (T. Cornuti, L.) (Tall M.) 

 Stem smouth or nearly so, 2-6 feet high. Leaves sessile; 

 leaflets very much like No. 2. Flowers white, in compound 

 panicles ; anthers not drooping ; filaments club-shaped. — 

 Low wet meadows, and along streams. 



4. T. pUFpuras'eens, L. (Pueplish M.) Stem mostly 

 purplish, 2-4 feet high. Stem-leaves sessile or nearly so ; 

 leaflets veiny beneath, often glandular-pubescent, and so 

 distinguished from No. 3. Blowers resfmbling those of 

 No. 2. 



