41 8 FLORA. 



2. Aconitum uncinatum L. Wild Monkshood. (I. F. f. 1567.) Slender, 

 weak, 6-12 dm. long, ascending or climbing, leafy. Leaves thick, broader than 

 long, 7-10 cm. wide, deeply 3-5-lobed or cleft; lobes oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 cleft or toothed, acute, glabrous or nearly so; panicle few-flowered, pubescent: 

 flowers 20 mm. broad or more; follicles 3, 12-14 mm - l° n g> subulate- beaked. In 

 woods, southern Penn. and Wis., to Ga. and Ky. June-Sept. 



3. Aconitum reclinatum A. Gray. Trailing Wolfsbane. (I. F. f. 1568.) 

 Trailing. 6-25 dm. long. Leaves 3-7-cleft, all but the upper petioled, thin, the 

 lower 15-20 cm. broad, mainly obovate, acute, toothed and cleft toward the apex; 

 simple panicle or raceme loose, pubescent; flowers 16-20 mm. long; follicles 3, ic 

 mm. long, with slender divergent beaks. In woods, Cheat Mountain, Va., 

 south along the Alleghanies to Ga. July-Aug. 



14. ANEMONE L. 



Erect perennial herbs. Basal leaves lobed, divided or dissected, those of the 

 stem forming an involucre near to or remote from the flower. Sepals 4-20, 

 petaloid. Petals none. Stamens 00 , shorter than the sepals. Carpels 00 . 

 Achenes compressed, i-seeded. [From the Greek, a flower shaken by the wind.] 

 About 75 species, widely distributed through the temperate and subarctic regions 

 of both hemispheres. About 18 species are natives of N. Am. 



* Achenes densely woolly. 



Stem simple, slender, i-flowered. 



Root tuberous; sepals 6-20, narrow. 



Radical leaves or some of them simply ternate. 1. A. decapetala. 



Radical leaves repeatedly ternately divided. 2. A. Caroliniana. 



Rootstock slender ; sepals 5 6, oval. 3. A. parvi/lora. 



Stem commonly branching above, tall, generally 2-several-flowered. 



Leaves of the involucre sessile or short-petioled; sepals red or green; head of fruit 



globose or oval. 4. A. Hudsoniana. 



Leaves of the involucre slender-petioled; sepals white or green; head cylindric, oval, 

 or oblong. 



Beak of fruit 1 mm. long; divisions of the leaves wedge-shaped, narrow. 



5. A. cylindrica. 

 Beak of fruit 2 mm. long ; divisions of the leaves ovate, broad. 



Flower greenish white, 1.5-3 cm - wide; head of fruit oblong. 



6. A. Virginiana. 

 Flower pure white, 3-5 cm. wide ; head of fruit short-cylindric. 



7. A. riparia. 

 * * Achenes pubescent, or nearly glabrous. 



Leaves of the involucre sessile. 



Stout, 3-6 dm. high, branching and bearing several flowers; carpels nearly orbicular. 



8. A. Canadensis. 

 Slender, .5-3 dm. high, i-flowered; carpels narrow. 9. A. Richardsonii 



Leaves of the involucre petioled. 



Involucral leaf-divisions lobed and incised ; plant 1-2 dm. high. 



10. A. quinquefolia. 

 Involucral leaf-divisions dentate; plant 1.5-4 dm. high. n. A. tri/olia. 



1. Anemone decapetala Ard. Ten tetaled Anemone. Appressed-pubes- 

 cent or glabrate, 1-3 dm. high from a globose or cylindric tuber. Basal leaves 

 slender-petioled, ternate, divisions broad, ovate to obovate, thick, crenate; those 

 of the involucre on short, broad petioles, cleft into linear lobes; sepals 10-20. blue, 

 oblong, linear; head of fruit cylindric, 5-20 mm. long. Ala. to Kans. and Tex. 

 Also in Mex. and southern S. Am. 



2. Anemone Caroliniana Walt. Carolina Anemone. (I. F. f. 1569.) 

 Sparsely hairy, IO-25 cm. high, arising from a tuber 8-12 mm. in diameter. 

 Basal leaves slender-petioled, 3-divided, the divisions variously lobed and parted, 

 those of the involucre sessile and 3-cleft; flower erect. 10-35 mm - broad; sepals 

 6-20, linear-oblong, purple, varying to white; head of fruit oblong. Open places, 

 111. to Wis., S. Dak., Ga. and Tex'. April-May. 



3. Anemone parvifldra Michx. Northern Anemone. (I. F. f. 1570.) 

 Sparingly hairy, 1-2 dm. high from slender rootstocks. Basal leaves long- 

 petioled, 3-parted, the broadly wedge-shaped divisions obtusely lobed or crenate, 

 those of the involucre nearly sessile, similarly lobed; flower 1-4 cm. indiameteror 



