2 CLASS DICOTYLEDONS 



conspicuous and either poly symmetric or monosymmetric. The 

 sepals and petals sometimes graduate into one another, and are 

 often spurred, the sepals being 3, 5, or more, and the petals often 

 absent, or 5, rarely 2, 4, or more. The stamens are indefinite in 

 number and hypogynous ; the carpels rarely i or 2, generally 3 — 5 

 or more numerous, distinct, and forming either an etasrio of one- 

 seeded indehiscent achenes or a ring of many-seeded follicles. 

 In Actcka there is exceptionally a berry-like fruit. The Order is a 

 numerous one, chiefly characteristic of temperate regions. Many 

 of them are garden favourites. Species of Aconitiwi yield valu- 

 able drugs. 



t Carpels i-seeded 



1. Clematis. — A shrub with opposite pinnate leaves, climbing 

 by twisting its leaf-stalks ; sepals 4 — 6, petaloid, valvate ; petals o ; 

 carpels ending in a long feathery tail. 



2. Thalictrum. — Sepals 4 — 5, petaloid, imbricate ; petals o ; 

 carpels without tails. 



3. Anemone. — Involucre of three leafy bracts some distance 

 below the flower ; sepals 4 — 20, petaloid, imbricate ; petals o. 



■^4. Adonis. — Sepals 5, petaloid, imbricate ; petals 5 — 10, 

 scarlet ; carpels without tails. 



5. MyosiJrus. — A small plant ; sepals 5, imbricate, spurred ; 

 petals 5, tubular ; carpels along an elongated axis. 



6. Ranunculus. — Sepals 3 — 5, imbricate ; petals 5 or more, 

 with a nectary at the base ; carpels in an oblong or globular head. 



tt Carpels many-seeded 



7. Caltha. — Sepals 5, petaloid, imbricate, yellow ; petals o ; 

 fruit of numerous follicles. 



8. Trollius. — Sepals 5 — 15; petaloid, imbricate, yellow; 

 petals 5 — 15, small, linear, flat; fruit of 5 or more follicles. 



9. Helleborus. — Sepals 5, persistent; petals 5 — 10, small, 

 tubular, bi-labiate ; fruit of 3 to 10 sessile follicles. 



■^10. Eranthis. — Sepals 5, deciduous; petals 5, small, tubular, 

 bi-labiate, clawed ; fruit of 5 or 6 stalked follicles. 



II. Aquilegia. — Sepals 5, petaloid, deciduous; petals 5, large, 

 spurred ; fruit of 5 follicles. 



*i2. Delphinium. — Flower monosymmetric; sepals ^, petaloid, 

 deciduous, the posterior one spurred ; petals 2 —4, 2 enclosed in 

 spur; fruit of i — 5 foHicles. 



* Genera the numbers of which are preceded by an asterisk, and species the numbers of 

 which are followed by one, are probably not wild. 



