Ranunculaceae 167 
ACONITUM : WOLFBANE 
Herbs, perennial, tall. Leaves alternate, palmately lobed. Flowers showy, in 
open racemes. Sepals 5, colored, petal-like, very irregular, the upper ones arched into 
a hood. Petals 2—5; 2 upper irregular, with long claw, with spur-like blade, con- 
cealed in the hood of the sepals; 3 lower small or obsolete. Follicles 35, sessile. Seeds 
many. (Greek name is akonitos; said to be from the town Acone in Asia Minor, 
where it was found.) 
A. Stem stout, not viney; upper leaves without bulblets in their axils. C. E. 
A. columbianum Nutt. 
AA. Stem weak, viney; upper leaves with bulblets in their axils. E. 
A. bulbosum, How. 
ANEMONE ANEMONE 
Herbs, perennial, erect. Leaves lobed or divided or compound, all radical except 
those of the involucre. Sepals 4-20, colored and petal-like. Petals none. Style 
short, glabrous or pubescent, not plumose; stigma lateral. Akenes numerous, compressed, 
pointed. (Gk. anemos=the wind; from the exposed habitats. ) 
A. Akenes naked or merely pubescent. 
B. Involucre-leaves petioled. 
C. Involucre-leaves 3—5-foliolate; stems from a horizontal rhizome. 
D. Flowers 20—35 mm. wide, white. W.C. E. (A. trifoliata for our re- 
gion. ) A. quinquefolia L. (Wood Anemone) 
DD. Flowers 8—12 mm. wide. 
E. Sepals white or pale-blue. W. 
A. lyallij Brit. 
EF. Sepals bright-blue. C. E. 
A. oregana Gray 
CC.  Involucre-leaves 2—-3 times dissected; stems- from an erect caudex. E.. 
A. tetonensis Port. 
BB.  Involucre-leaves sessile. 
F. Basal leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate or rhombic-ovate; akenes wingless. W. C. 
A. deltoidea Hook. (3-leaved Anemone) 
& 
FF. Basal leaves 3-parted or -divided; leaf-lobes narrowly lanceolate or linear; 
akenes wing-margined. E., 
A. narcissiflora L. 
AA.  Akenes densely long-woolly. 
G. Plants glabrate; sepals not yellowish, blue. W. C. E. 
A. drummondii Wats. 
GG. Plants villous-pubescent; sepals yellowish, sometimes tinged with blue. W. E. 
(A. hudsoniana; A. lithophylla.) 
A. multifida Poir. (Cut-leaved Anemone) 
PULSATILLA 1 PASQUE FLOWER 
Herbs, perennial, erect. Leaves lobed to compound, all basal except those of the 
involucre. Sepals 4—-20, colored and petal-like. Petals none. Styles long, filiform, 
becoming plumose. Akenes numerous, flattish, ending in a long feathery tail. (Dininu- 
tive of L. pulsare—to beat or pulse. Why?) W. C. E. (Anemone occidentalis.) 
P. occidentalis Freyn 
