

IIANUNCTLA4 I ..I 





Ordkb CLIV. RANUNCULACB .1 I 



Ranunculi, Jut*. 6 Ranunculacea D( 5 ■' 1 127 1818 . / Ir 1 2 / 



Endi Gen. clxxvill : '/ htlUuttr. I. p. 1.- I 



DC Sytt. 9. 33. (1881) j Prodr. 1. 111.— Podopbylleae, J/art. ( 



Diagnosis. 



"//k, homugeneout albumen, and ■ il. 



Herbs, or rareh Bhraba Leaves alternat ■ opposil illy much , with 



tli< petiole dilated and forming a aheath half clasping the Btem. Stipuli 

 onally present. Hairs, if any, simple. Inflorescence variable. I 



spicuoua ; it' a] I lien 



with the sepals large and 



. bypo- 

 gj nous, decidu 

 imbricate in asstivatioi . 

 oally vah lupli- 



Pi tals 3-1 5, h;- 

 nous, in one or m 

 distinct, sometimi - d< form- 



\ OoWify ^\~_X / Stamens 00, (very rarelj 



finite,) hypogynous ; ant] 

 adnate. ( larpels numi 

 1 -celled or united into a 

 \ I \\ \\[ v I / single many-celled pistil ; 



ovary one or n 

 the ovules suturaJ j Btyles 

 Bimple ; "\ ules anatropal. 

 Fruit either consisting of dry 

 akenia ; or baccate wii 

 or more s> i ds ; or follicular 

 with one or two va 

 albuminous ; whi 

 litary, either i 



1 . ■ t i — . Embryo minute Al- 

 bumen horny. 

 Under the d 

 foots i- colli c( 

 Biderable numl 

 differing from each 

 materially in 



tin il- c:il\ \ 

 very similar otlierw 

 of them ) 



tii '" 



others the* 

 pletely blended togcthi 

 Anemone ; in others it is i 

 the formeronlj ai 

 ti». Thi se too, which 

 quite distinct, 

 Crowfoots in tlieii 

 corolla being 

 assuming :i < 

 various waj b, asinth ' 

 It is, however, verj int. resting t.> find the spurred in 



4 ;t 



i COXCV. 



npurs. 



this ( Irder assimilated with the regular spurless species bj n 



u Antarctic species, the petals of which have a socket in their middl 



pating the spurs of Aquilegia, &c. 



The Order has a strong affinity with some which an wi 

 other. Its most immediate resembhmce is with Dillei 



CCXC\ l Ranunculus bulbosus ; 2. pistil of Ranui 



its carpels : 4. a similar section o! it.- ripe ach.vinuiu 



