DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ORDERS 



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WEST COAST PLANTS 



SPECIES ^AMED SEtfCE 1886. 



DIVISION I. POLYPETAL^E. 



R ANUNCUL, ACE JE . 



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

 flower free and distinct; sepals, petals and carpels, few or many, not united: stamens 

 numerous: petals sometimes wanting, then the sepals are usually petaloiJ; anther 5 * 

 short and adnate; seeds with minute embryos in fleshy albumen. Key to genera and 

 species, p. 79. 



Anemone nemorosa of the Atlantic slope differs from 

 the Pacitic form, which is considered worthy to be called a 

 separate species by some botanists, viz: A. Grayi. 



Ranunculus maximus, Greene, has akenes, with 

 nearly straight long beaks like those of R. orthorhyncus, 

 of which species it may be a variety. 



Thalictrum hesperium, Greene, is distinguished from 

 T. polycarpum by an ill-scented, not aromatic, odor. 



T. Csesium, Greene, of the Sierra Nevada foot-hills, is Delphinium nudtcaule. 

 odorless. 



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