CLASS I 



DICOTYLEDONS 



DIVISION I 



PETALS, FREE ; WITHOUT ANY RECEPTACULAR 



EXPANSION 



Buttercup Family {Raminai/acece). — The com- 

 monest plants of this family are Traveller's Joy, 

 Wood Anemone, Butterc ups, Water- crowfoot, Marsh 

 Marigold, Hellebores, Columbine, Winter Aconite, 

 Larkspur, and Aconite.^ 



A poisonous acrid and narcotic principle prevails 

 in varying degrees in all the members of this family. 

 The Water-crowfoot {Ranuticulus aqiiatilis) appears 



^ Rarer wild plants, and some cultivated, are the follow- 

 ing : — Meadow-rue, Pasque-flower (^;2(?7//<7;/^), Pheasant's-eye, 

 Mouse-tail, Globe-flower, Bane-berry(y^f/^rtr),Peony, Love-in- 

 a-mist, and Christmas-rose i^Hellcborus). The chief characters 

 of the flowers are to have every part of them perfectly 

 free^ with many stamens, and either many carpels ripening 

 into seed-like " achenes," or a i^ys only, becoming pods or 

 "follicles." 



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