POLYANDRIA, POLYGYNIA. ~ 
Srecres. 1. T. larus. Petals 5, deeper yellow,’ spread- 
ing.—Of this genus there are 2 other species, 1 Europe- 
an and the other indigenous to Siberia. — 
390. HEPATICA. Willdenow. (Noble Liver- 
wort.) 
Calix 8-leased. Petals 6to 9. Seeds fda. 
Herbaceous; leaves partly sempervirent, radical, 3-lo- 
bed; scapes 1-flowered; flowers blue, white or red. ANE- 
mMoNe. L. 
Species. 1. A. triloba. A genus ie Bagh a in= 
digenous to Europe and America. 
$91, RANUNCULUS, L. L, (Crow-foot.) _ 
Calix 5-leaved. Petals 5; having the inner 
_side of each claw furnished with a’ melliferous 
- pore, often memb aceously margined or co- 
vered by: a separ Seeds naked, nume- 
rous. Be ci 
Herbaceous; leaves alternate, undivided, or more com- 
monly cleft, often multifid; flowers sailors but mostly 
terminal, yellow, rarely. white. _- 
Specizs. 1. R. Flammula. 2. pe tins 3. Ssepitdlns. 4. 
filiformis. v.v. On the shores of lake Huron. 5. Cymba- 
laria. Pu. 6. abortivus. 7. nitidus. 8. sceleratus. A ve- 
ry noxious see common in wet meadows. 9. aurtcomus. 
10. pygmaeus. 1. pensylvanicus, 12. dulbosus. 13. Philo- - 
notis. 14. repens. 15. acris. 16. lanuginosus. 17. te- 
mentosus. 18. marilandicus.. 19. recurvatus. 20. sept 
trionalis. 21. hispidus. 22. aguatilis. 23. fluviatilis. 24. 
omuricatus. 25. echinatus. Many of these ipeces com- 
“mon to Europe are merely naturalized. 
‘An extensive genus of near 90 species, principally En- 
' ropean, but extending into Barbary, the Levant and Si- 
beria; there are also species in Japan and in South Ame- 
rica as far as aca eee 
392, BRASENIA. Willd. Hyprorerris. “i i- 
_ chaua. (Water-shield.) : 
-Calixe 6-leaved, petaloid, persistent, t the 3 in- 
‘terior longer. Corolla none. Stamina aig 
