14 RANUNCULACEJL 



DIVISION I. POLYPETAL^E. 



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* Petals and sepals similarly colored. 



Sepals and petals slender : carpels 3 to 8 on stipes : smooth ; evergreen 8 



Petals 5 spur-like sacs: follicles 6: flowers nodding: leaves compound 10 



D^pper sepal with a spur enclosing spurs of two petals: petals 4 II 



Qpper sepal a hood enclosing spurs of two petals 12 



Minute white flowers in dense capitate racemes: pistil single 15 



Flowers pinkish or whitish on scapes 6 



Flowers solitary on scapes: receptacle elongated: leaves slender, entire 5 



• * Petal* and sepals not similarly colortd. 



Petals yellow white or pinkish : akenes small, beaked 6 



Petals fleshy, dull purple: follicles large: leaves glaucous 14 



* * * Petals wanting : sepals petaloid. 



Woody climbers: leaves opposite: sepals 4: akenes plumose 1 



A whorl of leaves below the flower: akenes many 3 



Leaves cordate: sepals greenish, large: follicles 5 to 12 7' 



Leavet 2-3-temately compound: follicles pointed d 



Flowers small, greenish, in panicles: leaves 2-3-temate 3 



Flowers small, white; panicles corymbose, akenes 4-angled, inflated •.... # 



1. CliEMATTS) Linnaeus. 



1. C. ligusticifolia, Nuttall. Leaves 5-foliolate: sepals white, lilky. 



2. C. lasiantha, Nutt. Leaves 3-foliolate: peduncles 1-2- bracteate, 



3. 0. pauciflora, Nutt. Leaves fascicled: akenes smooth. 



4. C. verticillaris, DC. Flowers bluish purple, large, solitary. 



2. ANEMONE, Linnffiua. 



1. A. occidentalis, Watson. Akenes plumose-tailed: alpine. 



2. A, ratdtifida, DC. Akenes densely woolly: sepals villoosL 



3. A. nemorosa, Linn. Leaves 3, petioled, temate, incisely lobecL 



4. A. deltoidea. Hooker. Leaves usually entire, serrate. 



