4 RANUNCULACEjE. (crowfoot family.) 



ariloba, DC., an early state, when all the leaflets are linear.) — Swamps and 

 hanks of rivers. May and June. — Stems 2° -4° high, somewhat shruhhy at 

 the base. Flowers l'-l£' long, pale bluish-purple. 



6. C. reticulata, Walt. Smooth; leaves pinnate; leaflets 7-9, oval, 

 entire or 2 -3-lobed, obtuse or mucronate, coriaceous, strongly reticulated ; calyx 

 ovate ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, with spreading tips, not margined, longer than 

 the stamens ; tails of the achenia (l£' long) slender, plumose. — Dry sandy soil, 

 Florida to South Carolina. May -July. — Calyx downy, dull purple. 



* * Flowers panicled : calyx thin, spreading, ivhite: stems woody. 



7. C. Virginiana, L. Smooth; leaves tcrnate ; leaflets ovate or cordate- 

 ovate, lobed or toothed; panicle trichotomous, many-flowered, leafy; flowers 

 dicecious or polygamous ; sepals obovatc, smoothish ; tails of the achenia long, 

 plumose. — Swamps and meadows. July. — Leaflets 2' -3' long. 



8. C. Catesbyana, Pursh. Pubescent ; leaves biternate ; leaflets ovate, 

 mostly cordate, 3-toothed or lobed ; panicle leafy, many-flowered, the branches 

 divaricate, opposite, 3-5-flowercd; flowers dicecious ; sepals oblong, hoary; 

 tails of the achenia plumose. — Dry sandy soil, near the coast, Florida to South 

 Carolina, and westward. July. — Stem climbing high. Leaves and flowers 

 smaller than the last. 



9. C. holosericea, Pursh. Silky-pubescent ; leaves tcrnate ; leaflets 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire ; flowers dicecious, in paniculate corymbs ; sepals lin- 

 ear, longer than the stamens ; tails of the achenia very long, plumose. — South 

 Carolina, Walter. — Flowers small, white. ( * ) 



3. ANEMONE, L. Wind-flowek. 



Sepals 4-20, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous. Petals none. Sta- 

 mens indefinite. Filaments filiform. Ovaries numerous. Ovule solitary. 

 Achenia capitate, compressed, pointed by the short, naked or woolly, straight 

 or hooked, persistent style. Seed suspended. — Perennial herbs, with naked 

 stems, bearing at the summit 2-3 opposite or whorlcd and divided leaves, which 

 form an involucre remote from the flower. Radical leaves lobed or divided. 



1. A. nemorosa, L. ("Wood Anemone.) Smooth or pubescent ; stem 

 1 -flowered ; leaves of the involucre 3, long-pctiolcd, 3-parted, the divisions ovate- 

 lanceolate, lobed and toothed, longer than the peduncle ; sepals 4 -6, oval, white ; 

 achenia 15-20, pointed by the hooked persistent style. — Open woods along 

 the mountains and northward. March -April. — Steins 4'- G' high. Radical 

 leaf solitary. 



2. A. Caroliniana, Walt. ( CABOLIKA Anemone.) Stem slender, 

 ) (lowered ; peduncle many times longer than the small, sessile, 3-leavcd, 

 3-tOOthed involucre; radical leaves 2-3, long-petioled, tcrnate, deeply parted, 

 lobed and toothed ; sepala 14-80, oblong, white: achenia numerous in a cylin- 

 drieal-ohlong head, woolly. — North Carolina and westward. March. — Stems 

 6' -12' hiffh. Flowers 1' in diameter. 



