]?OLTA>rDRIA. POtTiSYI^IA. 23 



Species. 1. T. laxus. Petals 5, deeper j'ello\v,'spread- 

 in^.— Of tliis g-enus there are 2 other species, 1 Europe- 

 an and the other indigenous to Siberia. 



590. HEPATICA. Willdenow. (Noble Liver- 

 wort.) 



Calix' 3-Ieaved. Petals 6 to 9. Seeds naked. 



Herbaceous; leaves partly sempervirent, radical, 3-lo- 

 bed; scapes 1-flowered; flowers blue, white or red. Ane- 

 mone. L. 



Species. 1. A. triloba. A g-enus of a sing^le species in- 

 digenous to Europe and America. 



591. RANUNCULUS. L. (Crow-foot.) 



Calix 5- leaved. Petals 5; having the inner 

 side of each claw furnished with a melliferous 

 pore, often membranaceously margined or co- 

 vered by a separate scale. Se^ds naked, nume- 

 rous. 



Herbaceous; leaves alternate, undivided, or more com" 

 ir.only cleft, often mult.fid; flowers axillary but mostly 

 terminal, yellow, rarely white. 



Species. 1. R. Flammiila. 2. Lmgita. 3. pnsillus. 4. 

 f.Uformis. v. v. On the shores of lake Huron. 5. Cymba- 

 laria. Ph. 6. abortivus. 7. nitiibis. 8. scelerattis. A ve- 

 ry noxious plant common in wet meadows. 9. anricomns. 

 \0. pygmxiis. W. pensylvanicus. V2. bulbosns. 13. Philo- 

 notis. 14. repens' 15. acris. 16. lunugiiiosxis. 17. tO' 

 mentosus. IS. •?narilandici/s. 19. reciirvatus. 20. sepCen- 

 irionalis. 21. hispidus. 22. aqnatilis. 2'^.fuviatilis. 24. 

 vntricatus. 25. echmatus. Many of these species com- 

 mon to Europe are merely naturalized. 



An extensive genus of near 90 species, principally Eu- 

 ropean, but extending into Barbary, the Levant and Si- 

 beria; there are also species in Japan and in South Ame- 

 rica as far as Paraguay. 



392. BRASENL\. JJilUL Hydropeltis. J»/t- 



chaux, (Water-shield.) 



Calix 6-leaved, petaloid, persistent, the 3 in- 

 terior longer. Corolla none. Stamina 18 to 



