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POPULAR FLORA. 



I. Polypctalous Division. 



1. CROWFOOT FAMILY. Order EANUNCULACEiE. 



Herbs, or sometimes slightly woody plants, with a colorless juice, sharp or acrid to the 

 taste. Parts of the flower all separate and distinct, and inserted on the receptacle. Petals 

 often wanting or of singular shapes. Stamens many, or at least more than 12. PistiU 

 many, or more than one (except in Larkspur, Baneberry, and Bugbane), and entii-ely 

 separate, except in Fennel-flower, in fruit becoming akencs or pods, or sometimes berries. 

 The leaves are generally compound, or much cut or parted, and without stipules. 





237. Flower of Pennsylvanian AneiTiony. 238. Half a (lower of a rrov\-rnot. tnajnifirrl. 2C9. A petal, sliowiiis its litile scale 240^ Pod 

 of Marsh IMangoUl, opening. 241. A pislil of Anciuony, iin^Jiifipd. llie ovary cm lliiotish to show the ovnie in it 2-1'i Akeiic of Crnvi- 

 font, enlarged. 243. Same, cut tlirnnsli to show the stefl in il. 244 Knlarjeil cross section of the sepals of Vn'jjiii's-Cower So. 1, in tl:« 

 bud. 2i5. Same of Virgiu's-Bower No 3. i.43. Akene and feathery tail orstyle of Virgiu's-Eower No. 1. 



The genera are numerous. The following table or key leads to the name of each. 



Climbing plant?, with opposite, generally compound leaves, no real petal?, the edges of 



the sepals turned inwards in the bud, ( Clematis) Vihgin's-Boweiu 

 Not climbing: leaves all alternate except in Anemony: sepals overlapping in the bud. 

 Pistils many or several, one-seeded, becoming akenes in fruit. 

 Petals none: but the sepals colored like petals. 



Three leaves under the flower exactly imitating a calyx, {Ilejydticn) Hepatica. 



