198 RANUNCULACEiE. 



Canon, Vaca Mountains; Marysville Buttes; Sierra Nevada. Apr.- 

 May. 



2. C. ligusticifolia Nutt. Vikqin's Bowek. Hill Clematis. 

 Nearly glabrous, except the inflorescence; leaflets 5 to 7, ovate, 

 cordate or obtuse at base, 3-lobed or coarsely laterally toothed about 

 midway, or nearly entire; flowers 2 in. in diameter; panicles borne on 

 axillary peduncles 2 in. long; fruiting panicles 6 to 15 in. long. 



Almost throughout California, in the hilly districts, from San 

 Bernardino north to Santa Cruz: San Jose; Marin Co.; Ukiah; and 

 Weldon Caiion, Vaca Mountains; Sierra Nevada. June-July. Fr. 

 Sept. -Oct. 



6. ANEMONE L. Wind-flower. 



Perennial herbs, the. stems and radical leaves from a horizontal root- 

 stock. Cauline leaves none except an involucral whorl of 3, usually 

 distant from the solitary or umbellate flowers. Sepals 5 or more, 

 petal-like, imbricate. Petals none. Stamens numerous. Achenes 

 numerous, merely pointed. Seed suspended. {Greek anemos, wind, 

 the flowers disturbed by the wind.) 



1. A. quinquefolia L., var. Grayi (Greene). Stems slender, 4 to 

 12 in. high; radical leaf of reniform outline, -trifid; involucral leaves- 

 3-foliolate, leaflets elliptic or obovate in outline, entire at base, the 

 lateral usually somewhat oblique, crenately toothed or incised, f to 

 IJ in. long; flowers white, 6 to 8 lines broad; sepals about 6; achenes 

 tapering into the short recurving style. — (A. nemorosa L. var. Grayi 

 Grepne. A. Grayi Kell. & Behr.) 



Shady mountain woods: Santa Cruz Mountains; Tamalpais. 

 Mar.-Apr. 



7. MYOSURUS L. 

 Dwarf annuals with entire tufted radical leaves and naked 

 1-flowered scapes. Sepals 5, spurred at base. Petals 5, with a 

 nectar-bearing hollow at the summit of the slender claw. Stamens 

 5 to 20. Achenes numerous, crowded on a long and slender spike- 

 like receptacle. Ovules attached near the summit of the cell. 

 (Greek raus, a mouse, and oura, a tail, in allusion to the curious 

 receptacles.) 



Flowers on scapes; achenes with an appressed beak .... 1. M. minimus. 

 Flowers sessile, the spike-like receptacles In a close cluster; achenes with 

 a spreading beak . . . . . 2. M. alopeeuroides. 



1. M. minimus L. Mouse Tail. Leaves linear-flliform; scapes- 

 3 to 6 in. high, the slender receptacles J to If, commonly about 1 in. 

 long; mature achenes with somewhat rhoraboidal back and very low 

 keel ending in a straight appressed or rarely obsolete tip. 



Low ground: Vacaville, Greene; Maine Prairie, Jepsoii; south- 

 ward to the Livermore Pass, Breipei-. Apr. Ft. May-.lune. 



2. M. alopecuroides Greene. Antiooi-i JMou.se Tail. Leave-s 

 1 line wide, 21 in. long or less; spike-like receptacles 6 to 10 lines 



