An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . es-cent, tipped with the hooked style. Southern Pennsjlvania, southwestern Virginia,North Carolina and Georgia, chiefly in the moun-tains : in Virginia usually in company with thelily-of-the-valley. .-Mso in the south .AustrianAlps and the mountains of northern Italy. May. Genus 15. CROWFOOT FAMILY. 15. HEPATICA [ Alill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Perennial s
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . es-cent, tipped with the hooked style. Southern Pennsjlvania, southwestern Virginia,North Carolina and Georgia, chiefly in the moun-tains : in Virginia usually in company with thelily-of-the-valley. .-Mso in the south .AustrianAlps and the mountains of northern Italy. May. Genus 15. CROWFOOT FAMILY. 15. HEPATICA [ Alill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Perennial scapose herbs, with long-petioled thick 3-Iobed evergreen basal leaves, andlarge white or purple flouers, solitary on slender scapes. Involucre of 3 small sessile leavesclose under the rtowers, simulating a caljx. Sepals membranous, petal-like. Stamens allanther-bearing. Achenes short-beaked, pubescent. [Name ancient, from the supposed re-semblance of the leaves to the liver.] A genus of about 4 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Only the following are knownfrom North America. Type species: Anemone Hepatica L. Lobes of the leaves rounded or obtuse. i. H. Hepatica. Lobes of the leaves acute. 2. H. acutiloba. Nobk. I. Hepatica Hepatica (L.) Karst. Rcund-lobed or Kidney Fig. li Anemone Hepatica L. Sp. PI. 53S. I753- Hepatica triloba Chaix in Vill. Hist. PI. : 336. 1786. Hepatica Hepatica Karst. Deutsch. Fl. Scapes 4-6 high, villous; roots long-petioled, reniform, 2-2J broadwhen mature, spreading on the ground, 3-lobed, and the lobes sometimes tootlied oragain lobed, obtuse; involucre of 3 sessileobtuse oblong leaves immediately under theflowers; flowers blue, purple or white,6-io broad; sepals oval or oblong, ob-tuse, longer than the stamens; achenesseveral, 2 long, oblong, acute, hairy. In woods, often in large tufts. Nova Scotiato northern Florida, west to Manitoba, Iowaand Missouri. Alaska. . to 2600 ft.
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