RANUNCULACEAE (CROWFOOT FAMILY) 6i 



lobed. The sepals purplish or greenish white. Common especially 

 in rocky woods and ravines. April-iVEay. 



ANEMONELLA 



Low, smooth, perennial. Leaves all radical and 

 compound. Involucre compound at the base of an 

 umbel. Sepals 5-10, white or tinged with pink; 

 conspicuous. Petals none. Achenes 4-15, ovoid, 

 sessile. 



A. thalictroides, Rue Anemone. > Stem and slender 

 petiole of the radical leaf 1-3 dm. high, rising from 

 a cluster of thickened roots. The leaflets roundish, ■ 

 somewhat 3-lobed, cordate at the base. Flowers sev- 

 eral in an umbel. Common in woods. 



HEPATICA 



Leaves heart-shaped and 3-lobed, thickish and 

 persistent through the winter. The new leaves ap-, 

 pear after the flowers, the latter occurring singly 

 on hairy scapes. (Name from the resemblance 

 of the leaves to the outline of the liver, hepas.) 



.Ancmonella 



thalictroides, 



Rue anemone. 



H. triloba. Leaves with 3 obtuse or jounded lobes. Sepals 6-12, 

 blue, purplish, or nearly white. The achenes numerous in a small 

 loose. head, pointed, hairy. Common in woods in early spring. 



H. acutiloba. Leaves with 

 3-pointed lobes or sometimes 

 5-lobed. The lobes of the in- 

 volucre also acutish. Merges 

 into the preceding. 



ANEMONE 



Perennial herbs with rad- 

 ical leaves, the stem leaves 

 being 2 or 3 together, op- 

 posite or whorled, and forming an involucre, remote from the 

 flower. Peduncles i-flowered, solitary or umbellate. The sepals 

 few or many, petal-like. Petals none. (Named from the Semitic 



Hepatica triloba. 



