ANEMONE QUINQUEFOLIA. 



FIVE-LEAVED ANEMONE. 



Polyandrla Polygyria, Linn. Ra7iunculacex, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Stem one-flowered, stem leaves thrice-ternate, lateral ones deeply bipartite ; folioles 

 cuneate, cut-lobate, dentate, acute ; corolla 5-6-petalled, seeds ovate, 

 pointed. B. 



SYNONYMS. 



Anemone nemorosa, Mich, and Nutt. 

 A. nemorosa, /3. quinquefolia, Pursh. 



Root perennial, horizontal, clavate, white or wood-brown, con- 

 sisting of a thick tuber, three inches long, the thickness of a goose- 

 quill, and beset with numerous, small, black fibres. Stem oblique, 



