RANUNCULACE^E. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 8 



12. TROLLTUS. Petals many, minute and stamen-like, hollowed near the base Pods 8-16, 



sessile. Leaves divided. 



13. COPTIS. Petals 5-6, small, hollowed at the apex. Pods 3 - 7, long-stalked. Sepals decid- 



uous. Leaves divided. 



14. HELLEBORUS. Petals 8 - 10, small, tubular, 2-lipped. Pods several, sessile. Sepals 6, 



persistent, turning green with age. 



15. AQULLEGIA. Petals 5, spur-shaped, longer than the 5 deciduous sepals. Pods 6. 



* * Flower unsym metrical and irregular. Pods several-seeded. 



16. DELPHINIUM. Upper sepal spurred. Petals 4, of two forms ; the upper pair with long 



spurs, enclosed in the spur of the calyx. 



17. ACONITUM. Upper sepal hooded, covering the 2 long-clawed petals. 



* # # 1'lower symmetrical Pods ripening only one seed. Shrubby. 



18. ZANTHORHIZA. Petals 5, small, 2-lobed, with claws. Stamens 5-10. Flowers in droop- 



ing compound racemes, polygamous. 



Tribe V. CIMICIFUGEjE. Sepals imbricated, falling off as the flower opens. Petals 

 small and flat, or none. Pistils 1- several. Fruit a 2 - several-seeded pod or berry. 

 Leaves all alternate. 



19. HYDRASTIS. Flower solitary. Pistils several in a head, becoming berries in fruit, 2- 



seeded. Leaves simple, lobed. Petals none. 



20. ACTiEA. Flowers in a single short raceme. Pistil single, forming a many-seeded berry. 



Leaves 2-3-ternately compound. Petals manifest. 



21. CLMKJIFUGA. Flowers in long spiked racemes. Pistils 1 - 8, in fruit forming dry several- 



seeded pods. Leaves 2 - 3-ternately compound. 



1. AT K A GENE, L. Atragene. 



Sepals 4, colored, their valvate margins slightly turned inwards in the bud. 

 Petals several, much smaller than the sepals, passing gradually into stamens. 

 Achcnia numerous in a head, bearing the persistent styles in the form of long 

 plumose tails. — Perennial vines, climbing by the leafstalks ; stems a little 

 woody. Buds scaly. Leaves opposite, compound. Peduncles 1 -flowered. (A 

 name of obscure derivation, given to a climbing plant by Theophrastus.) 



1. A. Americana, Sims. (American Atragene.) Leaflets stalked, 

 ovate, pointed, entire or a little toothed, sometimes slightly heart-shaped. ( Clem- 

 atis verticillaris, DC.) — Shady rocky hills, Maine and Western N. England to 

 "Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and mountains of Virginia. April, May. — From 

 each of the opposite buds in spring arise two termite leaves with long-stalked 

 leaflets, and a peduncle which bears a bluish-purple flower, 2-3 inches across. 



2. CLEMATIS, L. Virgin's-Bower. 



Sepals 4, colored, the valvate margins turned inwards in the bud. Petals 

 none. Achenia numerous in a head, bearing the persistent styles as naked, 

 hairy, or plumose tails. — Perennial herbs or vines, a little woody, and climbing 

 by tlie twisting of the leafstalks. Leaves opposite. (KAnjixaris, a name of Di- 

 oscorides for a climbing plant with long and lithe brarches.) 



# Peduncles bearing single large nodding flowers : calyx leathery : anthers linear. 



•»- Stem erect and mostly simple : calyx silky outside. 

 1. €'. OCliroleuca, Ait. Leaves simple and entire, ovate, almost sessile, 

 silky beneath, reticulated and soon smooth above; tails of the fruit very plu- 



