114 POPULAR FLORA. 



following are the common wild species: they grow in woods and low meadows; the first three blossom 

 in summer; the fourth in early spring. 



1. ViKGiJfiAN Anemony. Principal stem-leaves 3 in a whorl, on long footstalks, 3-parted and cut- 



lobed, hairy; middle fluwer-stalk leafless, the others 2-leaved in the middle, new ones rising from 

 their axils, and so producing the blossoms all summer; sepals greenish white, acute; pistils very 

 many, in an oval woolly head. A. Virginuma. 



2. I.ONG-FKUITED A. Stem-leavcs many in a whorl ; flower-stalks 2 to 6, all leafless, very long; sepals 



blunt; head of fruit (an inch) long: otherwise like the last. N. & W. A. cyUndrica. 



3. PzNNSYM'AsiAN A. Hairy; stem-leaves sessile ; main ones 3 in a whorl, but only a pair of smaller 



ones on each of the side flowering branches; sepals large, white or purplish; akenes flat, many in 

 a round head. A. Pennsyhdnica. 



4. Gkove a. Smooth, low, one-flowered; stem-leaves 3 in a whorl, on long footstalks, divided into 3 



or 5 leaflets; fccpals white or purplish; akenes only 15 to 20, narrow. A. nemorosa. 



Meadovv-Rue. Thalktrum. 

 Sepals 4 or more, petal-like or greenish. Real petals none. Pistils 4 to 15, becoming ribbed or 

 grooved akenes. — Perennials, with compound leaves. Ko. 1 is almost an Anemony, except for its 

 ribbed akenes, and has a few hand.'^ome and perfect flowers in an umbel. The other two have small 

 and mostly dia?cious flowers in a compound panicle, and decompound leaves; one of the lower leaves 

 is shown in Fig. 133. 



1. Akemony M. Low, delicate ; stem-leaves all in a whorl at the top; sepals 7 to 10, white or pink- 



ish, like those of Grove Anemony, with which it genei-ally grows. Fl. spring. T. anemoncndes. 



2. Eakly M. Plant 1° or 2° high; leaves all alternate, the rounded leaflets with 5 to 7 roundish lobes; 



flowers greenish, in early spring. Woods. T, dlmcum. 



3. Late M. Much like the last, but 3° to G° high; leaflets 3-lobed; flowers white, in summer. Com- 



mon in meadows and along streams. T. Corniiti. 



Crowfoot. Ranunculus. 



Sepals 5, falling early. Petals 5 (sometimes accidentally more), flat. Akenes many in a head, flat. 



* l^etals white, with a round spot at the base : herbage all under water. 



1. White Wateh-Ckowfoot. Leaves made up of many delicate thread-like divisions. R. aqucHills. 



* * Petals yellow, and with a little scale on the inside at the bottom. (Fig. 239.) 

 4- Herbage all or nearly all under water. 



2. Yelloiv Wateh-C. Like the laot, but larger in all its parts, and yellow-flowered, the upper leaves 



often out of water and much less cut. K. & W. R. PiirshU. 



H- 4- Not growing under water. 

 —1. Petals not longer, but often shorter, than the calyx : plants erect, in wet places. 



3. Small-floweeed Crowfoot. Very smooth, slender ; first root-leaves crenate. R. abortivus. 



4. CuKSEn C. Verj' smooth, stouter ; leaves all cleft or lobed; head of fruits oblong. R. sceUralus. 

 6. IIooK-BEAKEn C. Hairy; leaves all 3-cleft, lobes broad; akenes with long and hooked beaks, col- 

 lected into a round head. R, recurmtus. 



6. Bristly C. Stout, bristly-hairy; leaves divided into 3 or 5 stalked leaflets, which are cleft and cut 

 again into narrow lobes ; akenes straight-beaked; in an oblong head. R. Pcnnsylvdnicus 



