36 CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



C. Pitched, Torr. & Gray. Wild from S. Ind. to Kans. and Tex., 



has a flower much like the preceding, but the tails of the akenes are fili- 

 form and naked, or slightly hairy, hut not feathery. 



C. crispa, Linn. Calyx cylindraceous below, upper part bluish ; sepals 

 with broad, thin wavy margins; tails of akenes silky or smooth. Va. 

 and S. ; also cult. 



§ 2. Mowers solitary; low, erect herbs. 



C. ochroletica, Ait. Pale C. Wild from Long Island 8., hut 

 scarce ; has ovate silky leaves and dull silky flowers on long stalks ; tails 

 of akenes very feathery. 



C. Fremonti, Wats. Leaves thick and often coarsely toothed ; sepals 

 purple, woolly on the edge ; tails short, hairy, or smooth. Mo. and Kans., 

 the western representative of the preceding. 



§ 8. Flowers small, white, panicled. 



* Herbaceous, erect. 



C. recta, Linn. Upright Virgin's Bower. 3°-4° high, with large 

 panicles of white flowers in early summer ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets ovate 

 or slightly heart-shaped, pointed, entire. Eu. 



* * Woody, climbing. 



C. Fl&mmula, Linn. Sweet-scented V. Flowers perfect, with 

 copious sweet-scented flowers at midsummer in small and rather simple 

 panicles ; sepals woolly on outside near the edge only ; leaflets 3-6 or 

 more of various shapes, often lobed or cut. 



C. Vital 'ba, Linn. Flowers perfect, greenish-white; sepals woolly on 

 both surfaces ; leaves pinnate, of 5 ovate leaflets. S. Eu. 



C. Virginiana, Linn. Common Wild V. Flowers dioecious, late in 

 summer ; leaflets 3, cut-toothed or lobed. 



C. paniculata, Thunb., from Japan, and now becoming popular, hardy 

 N., has large panicles of small, white, fragrant, perfect flowers in mid- 

 summer, and 3-7 small mostly cordate-ovate, acute leaflets. 



2. ANEMONE, ANEMONE, WINDFLOWEB. (Greek, shaken by 

 the wind, because growing in windy places, or blossoming at the windy 

 season.) % Erect herbs. Sepals 4-20. (Lessons, Figs. 233, 343.) 



§ 1. Long hairy styles form feathery tails to the akenes. Flowers large, 

 purple, in early spring. 



A. Pulsatilla, Linn. Basque Flower of Europe. Cult, in some 

 flower-gardens, has the root-leaves finely thrice-pinnately divided or cut ; 

 otherwise much like the next. 



A. patens, var. Nuttalliana, Gray. Wild P. Prairies, HI, Mo, and 

 N. W. The handsome purplish or whitish flower (l'-lj* across when 

 open), rising from the ground on a low, silky-hairy stem (3'-6' high), 

 with an involucre of many very narrow divisions ; the leaves from the 

 root appearing later, and twice or thrice ternately divided and cut. 



§ 2. Short styles not making long tails, but only naked or hairy tips. 



* Cult, species, exotic, with tuberous or woody rootstocks and very large 



flowers. 



A. coronSria, Linn. Leaves cut into many fine lobes ; sepals 6 or 

 more, broad and oval ; and 



A. hortSnsis, Thor., perhaps a var. of preceding, with leaves less cut 

 into broader wedge-shaped_ divisions and lobes, and many longer and 

 narrow sepals, are the originals of the spring-flowered, mostly double or 

 semi-double, Garden Anemones of many colors. 



