CROWFOOT FAMILY. Ranunculacese. 



bead usually 1 inch or less across, is succeeded by the 

 enlarged fruit-head similar in shape to, and about as 

 large as, a good-sized thimble. Fertilized by the bum- 

 blebees, the smaller bees (among them the honeybee), 

 and the brilliant little flies of the genus Syrphidce. 2-3 

 feet high. Me. , south to S. Car. , west to Kan. , Neb. , and 

 S. Dak. Found in Campton, N. H. 



A slender, tall, and handsome plant in- 

 Large White- ^ 



flowered termediate between the two preceding 



Anemone species, with large white flowers maturing 



Anemone earlier than those of the foregoing, and 



ripana with smoother stem and leaves ; the latter 



White ld> thin ' and une( l uall y clef fc into coarsely and 



June-July sharply toothed segments. The five thin 



sepals generally obtuse and a strong white. 

 The short cylindrical fruit-head slenderer than that of 

 A. Virginiana. 12-85 inches high. Banks of rivers and 

 streams, and on rocky banks, from the St. John River, 

 Fort Kent, Me., Willoughby Lake and western Vt, 

 Uxbridge, Mass., to western N. Y. and Sullivan Co., 

 N. Y. (M. L. Fernald, Rhodora, vol. i., p. 51). Found 

 on the borders of the pond near the Arondack Spring, 

 .Saratoga, N. Y. 



A northern, rather coarse stemmed spe- 

 Anemone c * es> verv much branched, with broad, 



Anemone sharply toothed, three-cleft leaves ; their 



Canadensls under surfaces rather hairy. The five 

 White white sepals quite blunt-, and the flower 1- 



H inches broad. The fruit-head globular. 

 1-2 feet high. Low moist grounds, from western N. 

 Eng., south to Pa., and west to Kan. and S. Dak. 

 Common in western Vt., along the slopes of Lake 

 Champlain. 



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