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sections according to the number of ovules and 

 character of fruit, e. g. where the ovules are many, 

 the fruit a follicle, ora berry, or capsule, viz. : 



Pceonice, with no honey-receptacles, usually solitary 

 flowers, a fleshy pericarp, and a broad stigma, e.g, 

 Pceonia. 



HelleborecB, with honey-glands, pericarp rarely 

 fleshy, and with flowers solitary, in racemose inflore- 

 scences, or cymes, e. g. Marsh Marigold, Globe 

 flower, Bearsfoot, Love-in-a-Mist, Winter Aconite, 

 Baneberr}', Columbine, Larkspur, Monkshood. 



Ovule I, fruit an achene. 



AneinonecB, e. g. Anemone, Clematis, Rammcuhis, 

 Thalictnim. 



Another mode of grouping the various types is as 

 follows : 



Tribe I. — Clematidece, sepals valvate, shrubs with 

 opposite leaves. Clematis {see post). 



Tribe II. — Anemonece, sepals imbricate, achenes 

 with one pendulous seed, Thalictnim, Anemone, 

 A donis, Myosanis. 



Tribe III. — Ranuncnlece, sepals imbricate, achenes 

 with one ascending seed, Rannncidns, 



Tribe IV. — Helleborece, sepals imbricate, follicles 

 many-seeded, except in Actcea, flowers regular, folli- 

 cles many-seeded, in Caltha, Trollins, Hellehorns^ 

 Eranthis, Aqnilegia, flowers irregular, follicles many- 

 seeded, in Delphininm and Aconitnm, flowers nearly 

 regular, fruit a berry in Actcea, 



The anthers are extrorse in all but Actcea, where 



