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tion may be found. Stems about i foot long. Leaves, soft, finely 

 cut, hair-like, with a dilated stem. They all float under water, 

 and collapse when taken out. 



A delicate, rather pretty plant, found in shallow, slow 

 waters. 



Stiff Water Crowfoot 



R. circinktus. — This has blossoms similar to the last, but differs 

 in its leaves, which are sessile, rigid, divided, all growing under 

 water, but not collapsing when taken out. They have broad, 

 large stipules. About i foot long. 



Aquatic, found in slow streams from Vermont to Penn- 

 sylvania, and westward. 



Tall Meadow Rue 



Thalictrum polygamum. — Family, Crowfoot. Flowers in com- 

 pound panicles. Petals, none. Sepals, white. The stamens and 

 pistils are borne on different plants. The staminate flowers are 

 the prettier, in compound panicles, loose and feathery, with white 

 filaments, thicker toward the top. The pistillate flowers are 

 smaller, more compact, and greener. Leaves, thrice compound, 

 cut into fine segments, the leaflets being small, rounded or 

 lobed, oblong, stalked. July to September. 



A plant lovely both in its soft, feathery blossoms and its 

 delicate foliage, growing tall, sometimes 8 feet. It masses 

 beautifully with clumps of wild roses wherever the soil is 

 wet and springy. My own observation indicates that the 

 plants bearing staminate flowers are much more common 

 than those bearing pistillate. I have often failed to find 

 one of the latter among many of the former. 



Rue Anemone 



Anemonetta. thalicirotdes. — Family, Crowfoot. No petals. Sepals, 

 5 to 10, rather large, white, occasionally pinkish. Flowers, sev- 

 eral, in an umbel. At the base of this umbel is an involucre of 

 long-petioled, roundish, 3-lobed leaflets. A leaf, similar in shape, 

 arises from the root on a slender petiole, which disappears early. 

 Roots a cluster of thickened tubers. This is often confounded 

 with the wood anemone. 



A delicate beauty, both in its foliage and flowers, growing 

 from a cluster of tubers (like miniature dahlia roots), quick- 

 ly withering after being picked. If one wants a bit of the 

 woods transplanted to the house, they may be carefully 

 taken up by the roots and set in a saucer of moss. For 



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