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following are the common wild species: they grow in woods and low meadows; the first three blossom 
in summer; the fourth in early spring. 
1. Virginian Anemony. Principal stem-leaves 3 in a whorl, on long footstalks, 3-parted and cut' 
lobed, hairy; middle flower-stalk leafless, the others 2-leaved in the middle, new ones rising from 
their axils, and so producing the blossoms all summer; sepals greenish white, acute; pistils very 
many, in an oval woolly head. A. Virginiana. 
2. Long-fruited A. Stem-leaves many in a whorl; flower-stalks 2 to 6, all leafless, very long; sepals 
blunt; head of fruit (an inch) long: otherwise like the last. N. & W. A. cylindrica. 
3. Pennsylvanian A. Hairy; stem-leaves sessile; main ones 3 in a whorl, but only a pair of smaller 
ones on each of the side flowering branches; sepals large, white or purplish; akenes flat, many in 
a round head. A. Pennsylvdnica. 
4. Grove A. Smooth, low, one-flowered; stem-leaves 3 in a whorl, on long footstalks, divided into 3 
or 5 leaflets; sepals white or purplish; akenes only 15 to 20, narrow. . A. nemorosa. 
Meadow-Rue. Thalictrum. 
Sepals 4 or more, petal-like or greenish. Real petals none. Pistils 4 to 15, becoming ribbed or 
grooved akenes. — Perennials, with compound leaves. No. 1 is almost an Anemony, except for its 
ribbed akenes, and has a few handsome and perfect flowers in an umbel. The other two have small 
and mostly dioecious flowers in a compound panicle, and decompound leaves; one of the lower leaves 
is shown in Fig. 133. 
1. Anemony M. Low, delicate ; stem-leaves all in a whorl at the top; sepals 7 to 10, white or pink- 
ish, like those of Grove Anemony, with which it generally grows. FI. spring. T. anemondides. 
2. Early 51. Plant 1° or 2° high; leaves all alternate, the rounded leaflets with 5 to 7 roundish lobes; 
flowers greenish, in early spring. Woods. T. dioicum. 
3. Late 51. Much like the last, but 3° to 6° high; leaflets 3-lobed; flowers white, in summer. Com- 
mon in meadows and along streams. T. Cornutl. 
Crowfoot. Ranunculus. 
Sepals 5, falling early. Petals 5 (sometimes accidentally more), flat. Akenes many in a head, flat. 
* Petals white, with a round spot at the base : herbage all under water. 
1. White Water-Crowfoot. Leaves made up of many delicate thread-like divisions. R. aqudtills. 
* * Petals yellow, and with a little scale on the inside at the bottom. (Fig. 239.) 
-i- Herbage all or nearly all under water. 
2- Yellow Water-C. Like the last, but larger in all its parts, and yellow-flowered, the upper leaves 
often out of water and much less cut. N. & W. R. Purshii. 
-i- h- Not growing under water. 
— t- Petals not longer, but often shorter, than the calyx : plants erect, in wet places. 
3. Small-flowered Crowfoot. Very smooth, slender ; first root-leaves crenate. R. abortivus. 
4. Cursed C. Very smooth, stouter ; leaves all cleft or lobed; head of fruits oblong. R. sceleratus. 
5. Hooic -beaked C. Hairy; leaves all 3-cleft, lobes broad; akenes with long and hooked beaks, col- 
lected into a round head. R. recurvatus. 
6. Bristly C. Stout, bristly-hairy; leaves divided into 3 or 5 stalked leaflets, which are cleft and cut 
again into narrow lobes; akenes straight-beaked, in an oblong head. R. Pennsylvdnicus ■ 
