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RANUNOULACE^E. 



Canon. Vaca Mountains; Marvsville Buttes; Sierra Nevada. Apr.- 

 May. 



2. C. ligusticifolia Nutt. Virgin's Bower. Hill Clematis. 

 Nearly glabrous, except the inflorescence; leaflets 5 to 7, ovate, 

 cordate or obtuse at base, 3-lobed or coarsely laterally toothed about 

 midway, or nearly entire; flowers 2 in. in diameter; panicles borne on 

 axillary peduncles 2 in. long;; fruiting panicles 6 to 15 in. long. 



Almost throughout California, in the hilly districts, from San 

 Bernardino north to Santa Cruz: San Jose; Marin Co.; Ukiah; and 

 Weldon Canon, Vaca Mountains: Sierra Nevada. June-July. Fr. 

 Sept.-Oct. 



6. ANEMONE L. Wind-flower. 



Perennial herbs, the stems and radical leaves from a horizontal root- 

 stock. Cauline leaves none except an involucral whorl of 3, usually 

 distant from the solitary or umbellate flowers. Sepals 5 or more, 

 petal-like, imbricate. Petals none. Stamens numerous. Achenes 

 numerous, merely pointed. Seed suspended. (Greek anemos, wind, 

 the flowers disturbed by the wind.) 



1, A. quinquefolia L.. var. Grayi (Greene). Stems slender. 4 to 

 12 in. high; radical leaf of reniform outline, trifid; involucral leaves 

 3-foliolate, leaflets elliptic or obovate in outline, entire at base, the 

 lateral usually somewhat oblique, crenately toothed or incised, £ to 

 1} in. long; flowers white, 6 to 8 lines broad; sepals about 6; achenes 

 tapering into the short recurving style. — (A. nemorosa L. var. Grayi 

 Greene. A. Grayi Kell. & Behr.) 



Shady mountain woods: Santa Cruz Mountains; Tamalpais. 

 Mar. -Apr. 



7. MYOSURUS L. 



Dwarf annuals with entire tufted radical leaves and naked 

 1-flowered scapes. Sepals 5, spurred at base. Petals 5, with a 

 nectar-bearing hollow at the summit of the slender claw. Stamens 

 5 to 20. Achenes numerous, crowded on a long and slender spike- 

 like receptacle. Ovules attached near the summit of the cell. 

 (Greek mus, a mouse, and oura, a tail, in allusion to the curious 

 receptacles.) 



Flowers on scapes; achenes with an appressed beak .... 1. M. miirinms. 

 Flowers sessile, the spike-like receptacles in a close cluster; achenes with 

 a spreading beak 2. M. alopecuroides. 



1. M. minimus L. Mouse Tail. Leaves linear-filiforni; scapes 

 3 to 6 in. high, the slender receptacles \ to If, commonly about 1 in. 

 long; mature achenes with somewhat rhomboidal back and very low 

 keel ending in a straight appressed or rarely obsolete tip. 



Low ground: Vacaville, Greene; Maine Prairie, Jepson; south- 

 ward to the Livermore Pass, Brewer. Apr. Fr. May-June. 



2. M. alopecuroides Greene. Antiocb Mouse Tail. Leaves 

 1 line wide, 2] in. long or less; spike-like receptacles (5 to 10 lines 



