86 BUTTERCUPS AND CLEMATIS. 
us as Victorian: Ranunculacez, Dilleniaceee, Magnoliacee, Mo- 
nimiee and Menispermee, and illustrations of four of these are 
therefore offered. To the first of these belong the well known 
Ranuncles or Buttercups and also the Clematis or Virginsbowers. 
It is beyond the intentions of this first school-book, to sketch any 
of these plants descriptively ; and it must suffice, until larger 
works can be consulted with advantage, to direct the attention of 
Fie. XL. 
Fic. XL.—(Ranunculus anemoneus).—1, a sepal ; 
2, a petal; 3, front- and back-view of an anther ; 
4, fruit-axis with a portion of the fruitlets; 5, a 
separate fruitlet ; 1, 2 and 4 natural size; 3 and 5 
much magnified. 
the young student 
merely to such plants 
as the Buttercups of 
the meadows, which 
can be readily gathered 
and compared with the 
adjoined illustration 
of a congeneric plant, 
Ranunculus anemo- 
neus, of the glacier- 
regions of our alps, to 
contrast thus specific 
differences, and to 
learn by these com- 
parisons impressively 
the few scientific 
terms for the principal 
organs of such plants. 
Strictly the vernacular 
name applies only to 
a very few British 
Ranuncles with yellow 
flowers, and nothing 
but their color seems 
to justify the name ; 
while many of the 
Ranuncles, the one 
here illustrated also 
included, have white 
petals. An equally 
