- Cn.M.MuN CAN A li| \\ WILD PLANTS. 



ORDER I. BANUNCULA'CEJE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 



Herbs or woody climbers, with an acrid colourless juiru. 

 Parts of the flower separate from eacli other. Corolla soim- times 

 wanting. Stamens numerous. Pistil (with one or two excep- 

 tions) apocarpous. Fruit an achene, follicle, or berry. Leaves 

 exstipulate, with the blades usually dissected, and petioles 

 spreading at the base. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Clem'atis. Real petals none or stamen-like. Coloured sepals 4 or more, 



valvate in the bud. Fruit an achene, with the long and feathery style 

 attached. Leaves all opposite. Plant climbing by the bending of the 

 petioles. 



2. Anemo'ne. Petals none or stamen-like. Coloured (white) sepals imbri- 



cated in the bud. Achenes many, in a head, pointed or tailed, not 

 ribbed. Stem-leaves opposite or whorled, forming an involucre remote 

 from the flower. 



3. Hepat'ica. Petals none. Coloured sepals 6-9, whitish or bluish. 



Achenes many, not ribbed. Leaves all radical. An involucre of 3 leaves 

 close to the flower, and liable to be mistaken for a calyx. 



4. Thalic'truin. Petals none. Coloured sepals 4 or more, greenish. 



Achenes several, angled or grooved. No involucre. Stem-leaves alter- 

 nate, decompound. Flowers in panicles or corymbs, mostly dioecious. 



5. Ramm'culus. Sepals 5, deciduous. Petals generally 5, curb with a pit 



or little scale on the inside of the claw. Achenes many, in heads, short- 

 pointed. Stem-leaves alternate. Flowers solitary or corymbed, mostly 

 yellow, rarely white. 



6. Cal'tha. Petals none. Sepals 5-9, yellow. Fruit a many-seeded follicle. 



Leaves large, glabrous, heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, mostly crenato. 

 Stem hollow and furrowed. 



7. Cop'tis. Sepals 5-7, white, deciduous. Petals 5-7, yellow, with slender 



claws, and somewhat tubular at the a;>ex. Carpels 3-7, on slcmln- 

 stalks. Fruit a follicle. Flowers en naked scapes. Leaves radical, 

 shining, divided into three wedge-shaped leaflets, sharply toothed. Root 

 fibrous, golden yellow. 



8. Aquile'gia. Sepals 5, coloured. Petals 5, each a long hollow spur. Car- 



pels 5. Follicles erect, many-seeded. Flowers very showy, terminating 

 the branches. Leaves decompound. 



9. Actaa'a. Sepals 4-5, caducous. Petals 4-10, with slender claws. Stamens 



many, with long filaments. Fruit a many-seeded berry. Flowers in a 

 short thick raceme. Leaves decompound, leaflets sharply toot In .1. 



10. Ciinicif'ujfa. Sepals 4-5, caducous. Petals several, small, two-horned 



at the apex. Carpels 1-8, becoming pods. Flowers in long plume-like 

 racemes. 



