4 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



and all again dissected into narrow lobes. Feathery tails 

 of the carpels 2 inches long. A low plant, flowering in 

 early spring. — N. W. 



** Styles short, not plumose. 



2. A. parviflo'ra, Michx. (Small-flowebed a.) stem 

 3-12 inches high, one-flowered. Sepals 5 or 6, white. Invo- 

 lucre 2-3-leaved far below the flower. Head of carpels 

 ■woolly, globular. Eoot,-]eaves small, 3-parted, their divi- 

 sions crenately lobed. — Eocky river-margins. 



3. A. multifida, DC. (Many-cleft A.) Silkj'-hairy. 

 Principal involucre 2-3-leaved, bearing one naked and one 

 or two 2-leaved peduncles. Leaves of the involucre short- 

 petioled, twice or thrice 3-parted and cleft, their divisions 

 linear. Sepals red, greenish-yellow, or whitish. Head of 

 carpels spherical or oval, woolly. — Eocky river-margins, etc. 



i. A. eylin'driea, Gray. (LoNO-rKniTED A.) Carpels 

 very numerous, in an oblong woolly head about an inch 

 long. Peduncle? 2-6, long, upright, leafless. Stem-leaves 

 iu a whorl, twice or thrice as many as the peduncles, long- 

 petioled. Sepals 5, greenish-white. Plant about two feet 

 high, clothed with silky hairs. — Dry woods. 



5. A. ViPginia'n^l, L. (A'iBGiNLiN A.) Very much like 

 the last, but larger. Also, the central peduncle only is 

 naked, the others having each a pair of leaves about the 

 middle, from whose axils other jiedunoles occasionally 

 spring. Sepals greenish. Head of carpels oval or oblong. _ 

 — Dry rooky woods and river banks. . 



6. A. Pennsylvan'iea, L. {A.dichotoma, L., in Macoun's 

 Catalogue.) (Pennsylvanian A.) Carpels fewer and the 

 head not woolly, but pubescent and spherical. Stem-leaves 

 sessile, primary ones 3 in u, whorl, but only a pair of smaller 

 ones on each side of the flowering branches. Eadioal leaves 

 5-7-partcd. Sepals 5, obovate, large and white. Plant 

 hairy, scarcely a foot high. — Low meadows. 



7. A. nemoro'sa, L. (Wood A. Wixd-flower.) Plant 

 not more than six inches high, nearly smooth, one-flowered. 



