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Order I. RANUNCULACEiE. , (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



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Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves radical or alternate 

 lopposite in Clematidece). Stipules 0, or adnate to the petiole, rarely 

 iree. It lowers regular or irregular, 1-2-sexual, rarely bracteate. Bisk 

 yery rarely present {Pceonia). Sepals 5 or more, rarely 2-4, deciduous 

 pTi T^ m Pceonia), often petaloid, imbricate (valvate in Clematis). 

 ^^^<« 0, or 3-5 or more, hypogynous, imbricate, often minute or de- 

 'wmed. Stamens hypogynous ; anthers usually adnate and dehiscing late- 

 mn ^^Z"-^^" usually many, free, 1-celled ; stigma simple ; ovules one or 

 "j.^f. °^ ^'^^ ventral suture, anatropous, erect with a ventral or pendulous 

 fo r f ^'^^ 1 ^^P^®- -^''""^ ^^ numerous 1-seeded achenes, or many-seeded 

 DtJtS^^' ^aI^ ^ ^®"y- '^'^^^ s™3,ll, albumen copious ; embryo minute — 

 a^^™^J- -^OQndant in temperate and cold regions ; genera 30, known species 



RpS?^ \ Clematideae, Erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, 

 ttanya^h ' ^^'^'^'^^^' C'«'2^^« 1-ovuled; ovule pendulous. Fruit of 



^SS*^ • ' ../.-. 1. Clematis. 



:;'eiai8 many, linear , . '. 2. Navavelia. 



Dels ^^' , ^''*™<«»«»- Herbs, Zeam radical or alternate. /S'spa^s 

 Knes ^'^'^^^*^^*®- Carpels 1-ovuled ; ovule pendulous. Fi'uU of many 



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3 0, flowers involucrate . 3. Anemone 



4. Thalictrdm. 



Petals n fl " 'nvolucrate . 



Petals tip!'^ * '"'^^^"'erous pit • • 5. Cai.lianthemum. 



«>-io, with no ner.tar;f,>rn„= »,;* . . 6. Adonis. 





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no nectariferous pit 6. Adonis 



lierwf ^^^- . *anuncule». Herbs. Leaves radical or alternate, Sepah 

 aohen2°"^' laibricate. Carpels 1-ovuled; ovules erect. FruU of many 



Sepall ^n' ^?"^"0"8, petals usually 5 7. Ranunculus 



f'BOpersistent, petals 10-15 . 8. OxyoRAFHis. 



*'qt>^lJ7i .?eUel>ore». Herbs or undershrubs. Z^at^ alternate. 

 ^SnFf ^^'^ <^^ herbaceous, imbricate. Carpels several, many-ovuled. 

 VOL. T ^ ^'" ^^^^ f oUicles (berried in ^ dcea). 





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