BUTTERCUP FAMILY 87 



V. 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., yar. Wolfgangiana. Pasque Flower. Low plants, 



1 in.-l 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. Cauolixa Axemoxe. Stem simple, from 

 a roundish tuber, slightly down}-, 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 ^^'.* 



3. A. cylindrica Gray. Loxg-Fkuited Anemoxe. Plants about 



2 ft. high, branching, with an involucre 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. virglniana 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. AVoods 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 gi'ound or wooils. 



6. A. quinquefolia L. "Wixd Flower, Wood Axemoxe. Stem 

 simple, from a thread-like rootstock ; involucre of 3 leaves, each 

 petioled, and of 3 leaflets, which are cut, toothed, or jiarted. Pedun- 

 cle 1-flowered. Sepals -1-7, white, often tinged with purple outside. 

 Carpels 15 or 21). This species is very nearly related to, but now 

 regarded as distinct from, the European A. nemorosa. 



