Ranunculus.) RANUNCULACEAE. 5 
LXXI. CHENOPODIACEAE. Lobes of perianth herbaceous or membranous; stamens free; 
ovary 1-celled, with several Si 0H or a 2—3-cleft style; fruit an indehiscent utricle. 
LXXII. BatrmpEAE, Flowers dioecious, in axillary catkins; ovary 4-celled. A succulent 
salt- water herb 
§ 2. Embryo ge bicedpha ste = — ac with a brary pat B stamens perigynous, 
or tw 8 ma segments of the perianth. 
LXXTI. Pes ae gece aha ie " ae 2 ee. neat ga opening into valves 
turned upwards. 
LXXIV. Ginbeciseece Perianth segments 4; stamens twice as many. 
§ 3. Ovary 1-celled, with few ovules; seed single, without integument, or connate with 
the pericarp. 
LXXV. inate ag a partly adnate to the maturing ovary, its lobes valvate; 
stamens oppesto th e lobes; 
LXXVI. LoRANTHACEAE A Tocris’ parasite with articulate branches, 
4. Flowers always unisexual bas rg pn 
LXXVIJ. EvepHorBIAcEAE. Ovary of 3, or rarely of 2 or more than 3, united carpels 
with 1 or 2 pendulous ovules in see and usually sdeacaiine tuto cocci; seeds albu- 
minous. Milksap generally present 
“anes URTICACEAE. Male flowers small, green; stamens opposite the perianth- 
segmen vary free, with 1 oyule; styles 2, or sariged 1, the stigma lateral; albumen 
scanty; gto stipulate. Milksap sometimes prese 
§ 5. Perianth tecaagog 
catkins, min ute ; v; 
wk : 
EAE. Flowers 10 
LXXIX. Pipe 
erect. Suckilent pers, 
Orprer I. RANUNCULACEAE. 
Sepals 3 or more, usually 5, free, often petaloid, caducous. Petals as 
r more, sometimes none. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, free; 
when ripe, indehiscent achenes or berries or follicular sapeciag eeds 
without arillus. Embryo minute, near the base of a copious albumen. — 
ie or woody vines, with a colorless acrid juice, the leaves generally 
alternate and variously dissected, with petioles dilated and clasping at 
the be Stipules none. 
1. RANUNCULUS, L. 
Sepals 3—5, petals 5—15, both imbricate in the bud, the petals with 
a nectariferous scale or pit at the base. Achenes numerous in a head, 
mostly flattened and beaked, with 1 erect seed. — Annual or perennial 
herbs, with alternate stem-leaves. Flowers solitary or paniculate, yellow 
or white, rarely red. 
A large genus, belonging to the temperate and cold regions ~~ of the — 
hemisphere, a few species inhabiting the higher moun untains of the tropical zon 
macanl pubescent; flowers mene in diffuse open panicles ; Secaee 1, RB: Palo 
hirsute; flowers larger, in close corymbs; leaves twice trisect . 2. R. Hawaiiensis. 
