42 BOTANY OF IyA SAI^E COUNTY. 



Division I. Polypetalous exogens: Both calyx and 

 corolla present, the corolla in several separate parts. 

 In some the corolla is wanting. 



Order I. Ranunculacea. Crowfoot, Buttercups: 

 Mostly low herbs. Calyx of 3 to 15 sepals, sometimes 

 colored and appearing- like a corolla; corolla of 3 to 15 

 petals sometimes more; stamens many, seldom few, 

 but distinct; pistils many or few, distinct forming a 

 compact head as small pointed or tailed pods each con- 

 taining- a single seed, a many seeded capsule or seed 

 vessel or a berry; leaves usually compound or much 

 divided, often all radical. Juice, watery, acridi of some 

 species strong- enough to raise blisters. 



1. CLEMATIS. Clematis. Virgins bower: Sepals 

 usually colored; petals none. Seeds in small, pointed 

 or tailed pods, which each spring- from a pistil, and 

 form a compact head.. s 

 CLEMATIS. P. Virgin's Bower. 



.... Herbs or vines climbing- by tendrils from the 

 ends of the leaf stalks, flowers without petals, 

 the calyx usually colored; stamens and pistils 

 many, the pistils forming- a little head, and in 

 fruit the style lengthened and more or less 

 feathery; leaves 3 to 7 leaflets, more or less ovate 

 and acute, opposite. 



C. Virginica. Flowers W. in large clusters, seeds 

 with long feathery tails. Ju. Aug. Damp 

 places; not common. 



C. Pitcheri. Flowers Pi. P. sepals thick, leather 

 like with recurved tips solitary on long pedun- 

 cles;' on the lowlands; not so strong a growth as 

 the first. 

 ANEMONE. P. Anemone. Wind-Flower. 



Plants with deeply cut and lobed leaves, usually 

 rigid, little divided and few flowered, our species 



