RANUNCULACETE. 5 



Stem-leaves in a whorl of 3, long-petioled, 3-5-i3arted. Sepals 

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

 places. - 



3. IIEPAT'ICA, Dill. Liver-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. tFll'oba, Chaix. (Eound-lobbd 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'g Catalogue, the iirst named being A. acutiloba^ Lawson^ and 

 the second A. Hepatica, L.) 



4. THALIC'TIMI.H. Tourn. Meadow-Rue. 



1. T. anemonoi'des, Miohx. {Anemonella thalictr aides, 

 Spaeh.) (EuE- Anemone.^ Stem low. Stem-leaves all in a 

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

 unihel, 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. l-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. Comuti, L.) (Tai.i:< M.) 

 Stem smooth 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. purpuras' eens, L. (Purplish M.) Stem mostly 

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

 leaflets veiny beneath, often glandular-pubescent, and so 

 distinguished from No. 3. Flowers resfmbling those of 

 No. 2. 



