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ANEMONE THALICTROIDES. 



WOOD ANEMONE. 



Polyandria Polygyria, Linn. Ranunculacese y Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix none. Petals 5 to 9, or more. Seeds many. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Flowers umbellate, involucrate ; radical leaves biternate, folioles subcordate, 3- 

 toothed ; involucre 6-leaved, folioles petiolate ; umbel few-flowered ; seeds 

 naked, striate ; root tuberous. TVilld. &? Pursh. 



SYNONYM. 



Thalictrum Anemonoides, Mich. 



Plant very delicate and slender. Root consisting of three oblong 

 yellowish-white tubers, with long branching fibres proceeding from 



