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Title: An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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ents. Flower of 5to 9 reddish or greenish-red sepals. In the northern part of our region;rare. June. 5. A. virginiana, L. (Fig. 3, pi. 45.) Tall Anemone. Floweringstem 2 to 3 ft. high. Whole plant hairy. Foot-stalks of the leaves ofthe whorl nearly as long as the leaves themselves. Leaves 3-lobed, thedivisions of the whorl leaves less deep than those of the basal ones.Breadth greater than length. Sepals generally 5, white or greenish-white. The fruit head elongated but less cylindric than the next species.Shady places. Common. June-Aug. 6. A. cylindrica, A. Cray. (Fig. 5, pi. 45.) Long-leaved Anemone.Flowering stem 1 to 2 ft. high. Whole plant covered with silky hairs.Leaves more deeply divided than in the last species. Flowers similar tothe last. Fruit head cylindric, often an inch or more long. Open places,common. June-Aug. 7. A. riparia, Fernald. Resembles A. cylindrica but is less downy,with thinner leaves, those of the flower stem forming the involucre, lance- CROWFOOT FAMILY 253
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Plate 4G1 Clematis virginiana. 2. Anemonella thalictroides. 3. Clematis ochro-leu^v 4 Mrlglne a„.erieana. 5. Head of fruit of C. virgin.ana. 6. Myo^surus minimus. 254 EANUNCULACEAE shaped. Head of fruit sub-cylindric. Maine, Conn., and southward.June-Aug. 5. ANEMONELLA, Spach. (Syndesmon, Hoffmg.) From a cluster of tubrous roots arises a stem 6 to 10 in. high sur-mounted by a whorl of leaves, above which arises a loose umbel of whiteflowers on long delicate foot-stalks. Later arise the stems of the basalleaves which are ternately compound, the common foot-stalks 1 or 2 in,long dividing into three branches, each bearing a rounded obtusely lobedleaflet. A. thalictroides, (L.) Hoffmg. (Fig. 2, pi. 46.) Eue Anemone.Flowering stem 4 to 9 in. high, smooth. Sepals white, about 5 or 7.Flowers from 2 to G in the cluster. Common in open woods. Earlyspring. 6. THALICTRUM, L. Rather tall herbs, flowering from April to June. Stems 1 to 7 ft.high. Leaves on the stem bearing the flowers and on one

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