POLYANDRIA. POLTGYNIA. 2^ 



Species. l.T. laxus. Petals 5, deeper yelloTX','sprea(I- 

 ing". — or vhis penus there are 2 other species, 1 Europe- 

 an and the other indigenous to Siberia. 



590. HEPATIC A. Willdenow. (Noble Liver- 

 wort.) 



Cal'ix 3-leaved. Tetals 6 to 9. Seeds iiakt^d. 



Herbaceous; leaves partly seiriperv'irent, radical, 3-lo-. 

 bed; scapes l-flo\vered; flowers blue, white or red. Anet- 



MOXE. L, 



Species. 1. A. triloba. A g-enns of a single species in- 

 dig'enous to Kurope and America. 



591. RANUNCULUS. L. (Crow-foot.) 



Calix 5-Icaveil. Petals 5; havin^^ the inner 

 side of each rlaw furnished with a melliferous 

 pore, often membranaceously margined or co- 

 vered by a separate scale. Seeds naked, nume- 

 rous. 



Herbaceous; leaves altrrnate, undivided, or more com- 

 monly cleft, often mult f.d; flowers axillary but mostly 

 terminal, yellow, rai'ely white. 



Species. 1. R. Flammula. 2. JAngv.a. S. pnailhi^. 4. 

 f,]iformis. v. v. On the shores of lake Huron. 5> Cymba' 

 laria. Ph. 6. abortivw^. 7. 7utidus. 8. .fceleratits. A ve- 

 ry noxious plant common in wet meadows. 9. avrlcomus. 

 10. py^nnans. \\. per.^ylvcmiciis. \2. bjtlbofnt!}. 13. Philo- 

 noiis. 14. repens- 15. cxris. 16. lamiginosvs. \7. to- 

 mentosus. 1^. marilandicus. 19. recurvati/s. 20. septen- 

 trionabs. 21. hispidics. 22. acjvntilis. 2'3.JItiviatiHs. 24. 

 vriricatus. 25. echinatvs. JNIany of these species com- 

 mon to Europe are merely naturalized. 



An extensive genus of near 90 species, principally Eu- 

 ropean, but extending into Barbary, the Levant and Si- 

 beria; there are also species in Japan and in South Ame- 

 rica as far as Paraguay. 



392. BRASENIA. JfilUL IItdropeltis. .Iff- 



ckaux. (Water-shield.) 



Caiix 6-leaved, petaloitl, persistent, the 3 in- 

 terior longer. Co^oUa none. Stamina 18 to 



