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Book Title: Doane Robinson's Encyclopedia Of South Dakota

  Anemone. Many species of the anemone abound in South Dakota, the best known of
which is the pulsatilla hirsutissima, which has been adopted as the Floral
Emblem of this State. Throughout its history there has been uncertainty about
the precise definition of this species, which is commonly known as the
pasqueflower; this uncertainty crept into the statute appointing it the State
flower, in which it was called anemone patens (Chap. 219, Laws. 1903). The
revisers of the Code of 1919 call it pulsatilla hirsutissima (sec. 5065). Prof.
William H. Powers, librarian of the State College, has collected some
interesting material from the earliest botanists who visited the Missouri Valley
and their difficulties with this anemone: Thomas Nuttall and Fred. Pursh were
botanists in the same field, rivals and a little jealous. They indulged in many
differences of opinion. Pertaining to the State Flower, Mr. Powers excerpts the
following from their works: "(Pursh 2, p. 385)." Nuttall names it anemone
ludoviciana, its habitat 'commencing near the confluence of the Platte River and
the Missouri; on gravelly hills, flowering about April. Clematis hirsutissima."
Mr. Powers then condenses a long note by Nuttall in which he disputes Pursh's
classification and in which he attempts to distinguish between the anemone and
clematis. He says Linnaeus was mistaken in calling the plant anemone patens.
Britton, Brown and Miller agree that pulsatilla patens is equivalent to anemone
patens. Nuttall shows quite conclusively that the plant, being covered by soft,
dense, silky pubescence, can in no proper sense be said to be hirsute. Legally,
at least in South Dakota it is pulsatilla hirsutissima, all other names having
been repealed by act of the legislature.

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DOANE ROBINSON'S
Encyclopedia of South Dakota
FIRST EDITION

Published by the Author
PIERRE
1925

COPYRIGHT BY DOANE ROBINSON. 1925

WILL A. BEACH PRINTING COMPANY
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