136 RANUNCULACEA1. [CI. 13. 



a monopetalous one. The series of Orders is made 

 as natural as circumstances will allow, in this, as in 

 the former, case. 



Ord. 61. Ranunculace^e. "Calyx of many 

 leaves, sometimes wanting. Petals usually 5. Sta- 

 mens indefinite, except in Myosurus" (where how- 

 ever they are variable). "Anthers continuous with 

 the Filaments. Germens several, indefinite or defi- 

 nite, rarely but one. Style one to each, rarely want- 

 ing, with a solitary Stigma. Capsules, rarely Berries, 

 as many ; in some instances single-seeded, and not 

 bursting ; in others many-seeded, splitting at the 

 inneredge, halfway down, into 2 valves, whose edges 

 bear the Seeds. Embryo minute, in a cavity at the 

 upper part of a large horny Albumen. Stem mostly 

 herbaceous. Leaves alternate, or rarely, in Clematis 

 and Atragene, opposite; some half sheathing ; others 

 compound, either pinnate or digitate ; others again 

 simple, and in that case either palmate, or otherwise 

 lobed, their sinuses frequently pale." 



Sect. 1. Capsules single-seeded, not bursting. 

 (These are reckoned naked Seeds by Linnaeus.) In 

 Hydrastis they are Berries. Clematis, fig. 213, Atra- 

 gene. Thalictrum, Hydrastis, Anemone, Hamadryas 

 Commers. Adonis, Ranunculus, fig. 214, Ficaria&nd 

 Myosurus. 



Sect. 2. Caps, many-seeded, bursting internally. 

 Petals irregular. (What Jussieu here terms Petals, 

 are Nectaries according to Linnaeus, the coloured 

 Calyx ot the former being Linnseus's Petals.) Trol- 



