TREES AND SHRUBS 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division I Thalamiflorce 



Natural Order . . . Ranunculacece 



Herbs or climbing shrubs, with an acrid juice ; Leaves radical or alternate, 

 rarely opposite, generally sheathing at base ; Sepals usually 5, deciduous, 

 often petaloid ; Petals usually 5, sometimes wanting, often deformed and 

 serving as nectaries ; Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, anthers basifixed ; 

 Carpels numerous, l-celled ; Fruit an etasrio of achenes or follicles, or rarely 

 a berry. 



Distinguished from Rosacea; by the hypogynous stamens and deciduous 

 calyx. 



The Crowfoot or Buttercup Family comprises many hundreds of species 

 arranged in thirty genera, most of them being herbaceous plants, distributed 

 throughout cool and temperate climates. The shrubby plants in cultivation 

 consist of about thirty-five species of Clematis (mostly woody climbers), two 

 Tree Pasonies, and the American Shrubby Yellow Root. Some members of 

 the Order are extremely poisonous, and the juices of most are acrid. 



The name Ranunculus (L. rana, a frog) is said to have been applied 

 by Pliny to the chief genus, from the fact that some of the aquatic species 

 grow where frogs abound. 



TRAVELLER'S JOY, Clematis Vitalba. 



A native of Britain, especially favouring dry, chalky soils, climbing over 

 our hedgerows, and in woods and thickets. Being a quick-growing climber, 

 it is suitable for covering unsightly objects, and its small greenish-white 



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