16 BAXUXCdACEZ. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 



DIVISION I. POLYPETAL31. 



OBDEB 1. RANUNCULACRSL 



Herbs or shrubs, with colorless juice; foliage various; stipules none; organs of the 

 flower free and distinct; sepals, petals, and pistils few or many; stamens numerous; petals 

 sometimes wanting, then the sepals are usually petaloid; anthers short and a^itt^; seeds 

 trith minute embryos in fleshy yllnr>gTi 



regttlar. 



Petals none; shrubby climbers ........................................ Clematis. 1 



Petals none ; small herbs. ............................................ Anemone. 2 



Petals 5 or more; carpels numerous. ................................ Ranunculus, 3 



Petals 5, sparred; carpels 5. ......................................... Aquilegia. 4 



* * Plovers irrfytdar; colored ttpoJs comfpicuotts. 



Upper sepal spurred. .............................................. Delphinium. 5 



Upper sepal hooded. ................................................ Aconitum, 6 



* * Sepal* laryc, fea/-/0*, p>r*is*t*L 

 Rowers large ......................................................... Faeonia. 7 



X CLEMATIS, L VIRGIN'S BOWER. 



Sepals 4. colored and petal-like, valvate in the bud. Pistils numerous; styles persistent, 

 becoming long feathery tails in fruit. Half-woody climbers or perennial herbs, with 

 opposite leaves. 



1. C. ligusticifolia, XutL Stems climbing by the petioles of the 5-foliolate leaves; 

 leaflets broadly ovate to lanceolate, li to 3 inches long, acute or acuminate, 3-lobed and 

 coarsely toothed, rarely entire or 3-parted. Flowers dioecious, paniculate; sepals thin, 

 silky, white, 4 to 6 lines lon^; akenes pubescent; tails 1 to 2 inches long. 



Var. Californica, Watson. Leaves silky -tomentose beneath, often small. 



2. C. lagiantlm, XutL Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate, 1 to 1 inches long, acute, 

 coarsely toothed or 3-lobed or the terminal 3-parted. Flowers solitary on 1-2-bractcd 

 peduncles; sepals obtuse, thick, 6 to 10 lines long. 



2. ANEMONE, L 



Sepals 4 to 20, colored and petal-like, imbricated in the bud. Petals none. Pistils 

 numerous; style short; stigma lateral; akenes compressed, pointed, in a head. Erect 

 perennial herbs, with lobed or divided leaves, which are radical, except those which form 

 an involucre below the flower. 



