4 RANUNCULACEJS. [Anemone. 



2. A. nemoro'sa, L. ; sepals 6 (rarely 5-9) oblong glabrous spreading, 

 stamens all perfect, achenes with short straight styles. Wood Anemone. 

 Woods and copses fron Sutherland southd. ; ascends to 2,800 ft. in the 

 Highlands; Ireland; fl. April-May. — Nearly glabrous, slender. Rootstock 

 horizontal, woody. Scape 4-8 in. Leaves few, usually remote from the 

 scape, petioled, 3-foliolate; leaflets narrow, subsessile, cut lobed or 

 pinnatifid ; involucral like the radical, petioled. Flower solitary, 1-lg in. 

 diarn., homogamous, honeyless. Sepals oblong, wbite, rarely purple. 

 Achenes downy, as long as the style. — Distrib. Europe (Arctic), W. Siberia, 

 N. America. 



3*. ADO'NIS, L. Pheasant's-eye. 



Herbs, annual or perennial. Leaves much divided. Sepals 5-8, peta- 

 loid, imbricate in bud. Petals 5-16, yellow or red, eglandular. Carpels 

 many ; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit a spike or head of many achenes ; 

 style short, persistent. — Distrib. Temp. Europe and Asia ; species 3-4. 

 — Etym. classical. 



A. autumna'lis, L. ; annual, flowers globose, petals broad concave. 

 Naturalized in Suffolk, and S. counties, sporadic elsewhere, and in Scotland 

 and Ireland; (alien or colonist, Wats.); fl. May-Sept. — Stem 8-10 in., 

 erect, branched, very leafy. Leaves decompound ; segments small, linear. 

 Sepals greenish. Petals scarlet, with a dark basal spot, suberect, rather 

 longer than the sepals. Head of reticulated achenes sometimes elongate. — 

 Distrib. Europe, W. Asia, N. Africa ; introd. in America. 



4. MYOSU'RUS, L. Mouse-tail. 



Small annual herbs. Leaves narrow, all radical. Scapes 1-fld. Sepals 

 5, rarely 6-7, with a small basal spur. Petals 5, rarely 6-7, or 0, small, 

 narrow, tubular. Stamens few. Carpels many ; ovule 1, pendulous. 

 Fruit a long spike of densely packed achenes ; style short, persistent. — 

 Distrib. Europe, N. Asia, S. America, Australasia ; species 2. — Etym. 

 fids and ovpd, mouse-tail. 



M. min'imus, L. ; spike slender, style very short. 

 Cornfields, &c, from Northumberland to Kent and Devon ; Channel Islands ; 

 fl. April-June. — Glabrous, 2-6 in. Leaves erect, many, linear, rather fleshy. 

 Scapes many, slender. Flowers minute, yellow-green, proterandrous. Sepals 

 5, narrow-oblong ; spur appressed to the scape. Petals 5 ; limb short, 

 ligulate. Spike of achenes 1-3 in. ; receptacle filiform ; achenes attached 

 ventrally, minute, keeled, back mucronate. — Distrib. Europe, W, Asia, 

 N. Africa ; introd. in America, &c. 



5. RANUN'CULUS, L. BUTTERCUP, CROWFOOT. 



Annual or perennial usually acrid herbs. Leaves entire lobed or com- 

 pound ; stipules membranous or 0. Flowers usually panicled, white or 

 yellow (the British species). Sepals 3-5, caducous. Petals usually 5, rarely 

 0, glandular near or above the base. Stamens many. Carpels many ; style 

 short ; ovule 1, ascending. Fruit a head or spike of apiculate or beaked 



