RANUNCULACE/E 



3. Amemone (\\'ind-flower). — Perennial herbs with under- 

 ground stems ; leaves radical, deeply lobed \ flowers solitary, with an 

 involucre of three leafy, lobed bracts Some distance below each ; 

 sepals 4 — 20, petaloid, imbricate ; /cAz/i o; stamens many; carpels 

 many, i-ovuled ; fruit an etx-rio of achenes. (Name from the 

 Greek diiaiws, the wind, from the exposed situations in which 

 they grow.) 



anemont: PITSATIITA {Pa ^<lu^-f^pit'fr). 



T. A. Piilsat'tlla (Pasque-flower) 

 tripinnate, with linear segments, 



Silky, 4 — 10 in. high ; leaves 

 , ricrcasing after flowering ; 

 />z?w/?/("r(' sessile, with linear segments iy/iTctv-.c drooping in bud, 

 \\ in. across; sepals \'iolet, silky outside, slightly reflexed ; 

 stamens yellow , achenes with feathery a\yns ; peduncle lengthening 

 after flowering. — In high pastures ; rare. Its beautiful flowers 

 appear about Easter-tide {Paques), from whiih the plant derives its 

 popular name. — Fl. March — June. 



