14 RANUNCULACE^. 



DIVISION I. POLYPETAL^. 

 RANUNCULACE^. 



* Petals and sepals similarly colored 



Sepals and i^etals slender: carpels 3 to 8 on stipes: smooth; evergreen 8 



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



Upper sepal with a spur enclosing spurs of two petals: petals 4 11 



Upper sepal a hood enclosing spurs of two petals 12 



Minute white flowers in dense capitate racemes: pistil single 13 



Flowers pinkish or whitish on scapes 6 



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



* * Petals and sepals not similarly colored. 



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 2 



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



LeaveB 2-3ternately compound : follicles pointed 



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



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



1. CLEMATIS, Linnaeus. 



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



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



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



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



2. ANEMONE, Linnaeus. 



OCCidentalis, Watson. Akenes plumose- tailed: alpine, 

 multifida, DC. Akenes densely woolly: sepals villous, 

 nemorosa, Linn. Leaves 3, petioled, ternate, incisely lobed. 

 deltoidea, Hooker. Leaves usually entire, serrate. 



