Anemone quinquefolia. ± \ 



crooked, cylindrical, brownish-red in the middle, white below. 

 Leaves terminal, generally three. Petioles from half an inch to an 

 inch long, erect. Leaves divided into three or five segments, pale un- 

 derneath. Leaflets lobed laterally, deeply cleft and incised. Peduncle 

 an inch or an inch and a half long, erect, pubescent. Corolla consist- 

 ing of five or seven petals, white or peach-blossom red. Anthers small 

 straw-yellow. Filaments same colour, very slender and delicate. Pis- 

 tils and germ greenish. Specimens are occasionally met with which 

 are only three-leaved, but they are generally five-leaved — and more 

 seldom specimens occur with but two leaves. Grows in rich, shady 

 Woods, and near the margins of rivulets, in damp rich soils, through- 

 out the United States; flowering in the early part of May. 



This delicate little plant is very ornamental to our copses and 

 shady woods, in the spring of the year. Though it bears but a single 

 blossom red or white flower, the plant is so abundant where it grows, 

 increasing by its roots as well as seeds, that it besprinkles the 

 ground for rods together with its flowers. It has been confounded 

 with the A. nemorosa of Europe, from which Muhlenburg consi- 

 dered it specifically distinct, giving it the name quinquefolia, and 

 the plant here figured is the one standing under the same name in 

 his catalogue and herbarium. From the assertion of Pursh, that 

 ;; the variety p. (the present plant,) can never be considered as a 



species, as there arc intermediate varieties between them" I have 



been led for many years past to examine hundreds of specimens 



