BUTTERCUP FAMILY 87 
Vv. ANEMONE L. 
Perennial herbs, usually with basal leaves, and 2 or 3 op- 
posite or whorled stem leaves, constituting an involucre some 
distance below the flower or flower cluster. Sepals few or nu- 
merous, colored and petal-like. Petals usually wanting. Akenes 
pointed, or with long, feathery tails. 
1. A. patens L., var. Wolfgangiana. PasquE FLoweEr. Low plants, 
1 inl ft. high, clothed with long, silky hairs. Leaves divided 
in threes. Flower single, large, showy, pale-purplish, borne on a 
peduncle developed before the leaves. Carpels many, with long, 
hairy styles, which in fruit form tails 2 in. long. Prairies and 
bluffs, N.W. 
2. A. caroliniana Walt. Carotina ANEMONE. Stem simple, from 
a roundish tuber, slightly downy, 6-12 in. high, bearing a single 
flower about 1 in. broad. Basal leaves 2-3, long-petioled, compound 
in threes, the divisions cut or lobed; stem leaves sessile, compound 
in threes, the divisions wedge-shaped. Sepals 12-20, white; head of 
fruit becoming oblong; akenes woolly. In open woods W.* 
3. A. cylindrica Gray. Lone-Fruirep ANEMONE. Plants about 
2 ft. high, branching, with an inyolucre of long-petioled, divided, and 
cleft leaves, from within which spring several long, naked peduncles. 
Flowers greenish-white. Sepals obtuse. Head of fruit cylindrical, 
composed of very many densely woolly akenes. Dry woods and 
prairies. 
4. A. virginiana L. Plant hairy, 2-3 ft. high. Peduncles 6-12 in. 
long, sometimes forking, the first ones naked, the later ones with a 
little 2-leaved involucre at the middle. Leaves of the involucre 3, 
each 3-parted, the divisions ovate-lanceolate, pointed. Sepals acute. 
Head of fruit ovoid. Woods and meadows. 
5. A. canadensis L. Plant hairy, rather low. Peduncle arising 
from a 3-leaved primary involucre, then branching, each branch 
bearing at the middle a 2-leaved secondary involucre. Leaves of the 
primary involucre broadly wedge-shaped, 3-cleft, the divisions cut 
and toothed. Sepals obovate, white. Head of fruit spherical. In 
low ground or woods. 
6. A. quinquefolia L. Wixp Frower, Woop ANEMONE. Stem 
simple, from a thread-like rootstock; involucre of 3 leaves, each 
petioled, and of 3 leaflets. which are cut, toothed, or parted. Pedun- 
cle 1-flowered. Sepals 4-7, white, often tinged with purple outside. 
Carpels 15 or 20. This species is very nearly related to, but now 
regarded as distinct from, the European A. nemorosa. 
