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* Carpels one-seeded. 



1. CLEMATIS (Traveller's Joy). Sepals 4 6, re- 

 sembling petals; corolla wanting; carpels terminated 

 by a long feathery tail. (Name from the Greek, clema, 

 a vine-shoot.) 



2. THALICTRUM (Meadow Eue). Sepals 4 5 ; corolla 

 wanting ; carpels without tails. (Name from the Greek, 

 thallo, to flourish.) 



3. ANEMONE (Wind-flower). Sepals and petals alike, 

 5 15 ; involucre of 3 cut leaves, distant from the 

 flower. (Name from the Greek, anemos, the wind, from 

 the exposed place of growth.) 



4. ADONIS (Pheasant's Eye). Sepals 5 ; petals 5 10, 

 without a nectary at the base ; carpels without tails. 

 (Name from Adonis, a youth who was killed by a 

 wild boar, and whose blood is fabled to have stained 

 flowers.) 



5. KANUNCULUS (Crowfoot, Buttercup, Lesser Celan- 

 dine, &c.) Sepals 5 (rarely 3) ; petals 5 (rarely nu- 

 merous), with a nectary at the base. (Name from the 

 Latin, rana, a frog, an animal which frequents the kind 

 of places where these plants grow.) 



6. MYOSURUS (Mouse-tail). Sepals 5, prolonged at 

 the base into a spur ; petals 5 ; carpels crowded into a 

 lengthened spike. (Name, Greek for a mouse's tail.) 



** Carpels many-seeded. 



7. TROLLIUS (Globe-flower). Sepals about 15, re- 

 sembling petals ; petals 5 or more, small, narrow. 

 (Name said to be derived from an old German word, 

 signifying a globe.) 



8. , CALTHA (Marsh Marigold). Sepals and petals 

 alike, 5 or more. (Name from the Greek, cdlathus, a 

 cup, which its flowers resemble.) 



9. HELL&BORUS (Hellebore). Sepals 5, petal-like, per- 

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