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DIVISION I. POLYPETALuE. 

 RANUNCULACEJE. 



* Petals and sepals similarly colored, 



Sepals and petals slender: carpels 3 to 8 on stipes: smooth; evergreen 8 



Petals 5 spur-like sacs: follicles 5: flowers nodding: leaves compound 10 



Upper sepal with a spur enclosing spurs of two petals: petals 4 11 



Upper sepal a hood enclosing spurs of two petals 12 



Minute white flowers in dense capitate racemes: pistil single 1& 



Flowers pinkish or whitish on scapes 6 



Flowers solitary on scapes: receptacle elongated: leaves slender, entire 5 



* * Petals and sepals not similarly colored, 



Petals yellow white or pinkish: akenes small, beaked 6 



Petals fleshy, dull purple: follicles large: leaves glaucous 14 



* * * Petals wanting : sepals petaloid. 



Woody climbers: leaves opposite: sepals 4: akenes plumose 1 



A whorl of leaves below the flower: akenes many 2 



Leaves cordate: sepals greenish, large: follicles 5 to 12 7 



Leavei 2-3-ternately compound: follicles pointed . . 9 



flowers small, greenish, in panicles: leaves 2-3 ternate 3 



Flowers small, white; panicles corymbose, akenes 4 -angled, inflated 4 



1. CLEMATIS, Linneu*. 



1. 0. lignsticifolia, Nnttall. Leaves 5-foliolate: sepals white, dlky. 



2. 0. lasiantka, Nutt. Leaves 3-foliolate: peduncles l-2-braotoato. 



3. 0. pauciflora, Nutt. Leaves fascicled: akenes smooth. 



4. O. verticillaris, DO. Flowers bluish purple, large, solitary. 



2. ANEMONE, Linnaeus. 



1. A. occidentalis, Watson, Akenea plumose- tailed: alpine. 



2. A. multifida, DC. Akenes densely woolly : sepals villova 



3. A. nemorosa, Linn. Leaves 3, petioled, ternate, incisely lobed. 



4. A. deltoid ea, Hooker. Leaves usually entire, serrate. 



