6 EANUNCULACE^. (CKOWTOOT FAMILY.) 



6. At nemordsa, L. ("Wind-flowek. Wood Anemone.) Xow, 

 smooth ; stem perfectly simple ; jUmet single on a naked peduncle ; leaves of the 

 involucre 3, Img-petioled, S-diridcd, toothed and cut ; the lateral divisions often 

 (var. quinquepolia) 2-parted; radical leaf single; sepals 4-7, oval, white, 

 sometimes tinged with purple outside; carpels only 15-20, oblong, with a 

 hooked beak. — Margin of woods. April, May. — A delicate and pretty vernal 

 species; the spreading flower 1' broad. (Eu.) 



5. HEPATICA, Dill. Livek-leap. Hepatica. 



Involucre simple and 3-leaved, very close to the flower, so as to resemble a 

 calyx ; otherwise as in Anemone (of which this genus may be viewed as only a 

 section). — Leaves all radical, heart-shaped and 3-lobed, thickish and persistent 

 through the winter, the new ones appealing later than the flowers. Flowers 

 single, on hairy scapes. (Name from a fancied resemblance to the liver in the 

 shape of the leaves.) 



1. H. triloba, Chaix. (Eound-lobed Hepatica.) Leaves with 3 

 ovate obtuse or rounded lobes ; those of the involucre also obtuse. — "Woods; 

 common ; flowering soon after the snow leaves the ground in spring. Sepals 

 6-9, blue, purplish, or nearly white. Achenia several, in a small loose head, 

 ovate-oblong, pointed, hairy. Lobes of the leaves usually very obtuse, or 

 rounded. (Eu.) 



2. H. aciitiloba, DC. (Sharp-lobed Hepatica.) Leaves with 3 

 ovate and pointed lobes, or sometimes 5-lobed ; those of the involucre acute or 

 acntish. — Woods, Vermont and New York to Wisconsin. Sepals 7-12, pale 

 purple, pink, or nearly white. Perhaps runs into No. 1. 



6. THAIiiCTRVn, Toum. Mbadow-Etje. 



Sepals 4 or more, petal-like or greenish. Petals none. Achenia 4-15, tipped 

 by the stigma or short style, grooved or ribbed, or else inflated. Seed suspend- 

 ed. — Perennials, with 2-3-temately compound leaves, the divisions and the 

 leaflets stalked. Elowers in corymbs or panicles, often polygamous. (Deriva- 

 tion obscure.) 



* Stem-leaves farming an involucre at the summit, as in Anemone : root tuberous- 



thickened and clustered: flowers perfect : fruits sessile, grooved. 

 1. T. anemonoides, Michx. (Rue-Anemone.) Low; root-leaves 

 twice or thrice 3-divided ; the leaflets and the long-stalked leaflets of the invo- 

 lucre obtusely 3-lobed at the apex ; flowers few in a simple umbel. (Anemone 

 thalictroides, L., Bigel.) — Woods: common. April, May. — A pretty plant, 

 more like Anemone than Thalictrum in aspect. The stem bears 2 or 3 leaves 

 at the very summit, like those from the root, but without the common petiole, 

 so that they seem like a whorl of long-stalked simple leaves. Sepals 7-10, 

 half an inch long, not falling off before the stamens, white, or tinged with pink. 

 Pistils several in a little head, tipped with a flat stigma. 



* # Stem-leaves scattered, 3-4 times compound: root fibrous : flowers dioecious or 



