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RANUNCULACE.E. 



[Hypogynous Exogens. 



Campanaria, Eniil. 



Preonanthus, Khrh. 



Ancmanthus, Endl. 



Pulsatilloides, DC. 



Asteranemia, Reichb. 



Anenwnanthea, DC. 



Oriba, Adans. 



Anemonospermos, DC. 



Homalocarpus, DC. 

 Hepatica, Dill. 

 Knowltonia, Salisb. 



Anamenia, Vent. 



? Thebesia, Neck. 

 Hamadryas, Commers. 

 Hydrastis, Linn 



Warneria, Mill. 

 Adonis, iWJ. 



Sarpedonia, Adans. 



Consiligo, DC. 



Adonanthe, Spach. 

 Callianthemum, C.A.M. 

 Myosurus, Dill. 

 Aphanostemma, St. Hil. 



III. Rani-nci'leje. — 

 Calyx in aestivation, 

 imbricated. Achenia 



without tails 

 erect. 



seed 



Casalea, St. Hil. 

 Ranunculus, L. 



Batrach&um, DC. 



Ranunculattrum, DC. 



Krapfta, DC. 



Cyprianthe, Spach. 



Thora, DC. 



Hecatonia, Lour. 



Philonotis, Reichenb. 



Echinella, DC. 

 Ceratocephalus, Munch. 

 Ficaria, JJillen. 



Scotanum, Adans. 

 Oxygraphis, Bung. 



IV. Hellebore/E. — Ca- 

 lyx, in aestivation, im- 

 bricated. Fruit many- 

 seeded follicles. 



Caltha, Linn. 

 Nirbisia, G. Don. 

 Psychrophila, DC. 

 Populago, DC. 

 Thacla, Spach. 



Tiollius, Linn. 



Geisenia, Raf. 

 Hegemone. Bunge. 

 Erantliis, Salisb. 



Koellea, Biria. 



Roberlia, Merat. 



Helleborus, Miinch. 



Helleboroides, Adans. 

 Helleborus, Adans. 



Helleboraster, Monch. 

 Isopyrum, Linn. 



Olfa, Adans. 



Thalictrella, A. Rich. 



ie;)top.vru)H,Reichenb, 

 Enemion, Raf. 

 Coptis, Salisb. 



Chrysa, Raf. 



Chrysncoptis, Nutt. 



Pterophyllum, Nutt. 

 Garidella, Tournef. 

 Nigella, Tournef. 



Erubatos, DC. 

 Aquilegia, Tournef. 

 Delphinium, Tournef. 



Consolida, DC. 



Aconiteila, Spach. 



Delphinellum , DC. 



Phkdinium, Spach. 



Delphinastrum, DC. 



Staphisagria, DC. 

 Aconitum, Tournef. 



Anthora, DC. 



Lycoctonum, DC. 



Cammarum, DC. 

 Moutan, LindL 

 Paeonia, Z. 



§ Oncepia, Lindl. 



V. Act.ee.s. — Calyx 

 coloured, imbricated. 

 Fruit succulent, inde- 

 hiscent, one or many- 

 seeded. 



Trautvetteria, Fisch. et M. 

 Actaea, Linn. 

 Christophuriana,TourR 

 Botrophis, Raf. 



ilacrotys, Raf. 

 Pityrosperma, Sieb 

 Actinospora, Turcz. 

 Cimicifuga, Linn. 

 Xanthorrhiza, Marsh. 



Zanthorhiza, Herit. 

 Podophyllum, L. 



Numbers. Gen. 41. Sp. 1000. 



ADDITIONAL GENERA. 



Barneoudia, Gay, near Erantliis. 

 Psychrophila, do. near Caltha, 

 Babasanthera, Edgw. 

 Glaucidium, Zucc, near Paeonia '. 



Apiacece. 

 J3c i 'bcvidticCG! 

 roMTiON.-P a paveraceas.-RANuW^^^^ 



Allsmacece. bonis. 



Cephalote/e.(.R. Brown, Phil. Mag. (1832 .— Cephalotaceae, Lindl. Key, No. 5. (1835 ; Ed. pr. No 5). 

 A stemless herb with exstipulate leaves, among which are mingled opercuiate pitchers. Scape simple, 

 bearing a compound terminal spike. Flowers small. Calyx coloured, six-parted, with a valvate 

 aestivation. Corolla 0. Stamens 12, those opposite the sepals "shortest, inserted into the edge of a deep 

 glandular perigynous disk : anthers with a thick granular connective. Carpels 6, distinct, one-seeded ; 

 ovule erect. Akenia membranous, opening by the ventral suture, surrounded by the persistent calyx 

 and stamens. Seed solitary (very seldom two' erect. Embryo minute, in the base of the axis of a fleshy- 

 friable somewhat oily albumen.— The single species on which this imaginary Order has been founded is 

 a native of the marshes of King George's Sound in New Holland. It is allied, according to Labillar- 

 diere, to Roseworts, and ac ording to Jussieu, to Houseleeks ; according to Brown, the Order should be 

 placed between Houseleeks and Francoads. Its very copious albumen and apocarpous fruit seem, 

 however, to fix it far from the former of those Orders, and to place it unquestionably in the Ranal 

 Alliance, from which it forms a transition to Francoads in the Berberal Alliance, and through those 

 plants to Sarraceniads, in which the leaves are in like manner transformed into pitchers. The difficulty 

 that Botanists have found in deciding where to place it, has arisen out of the apparently perigynous 

 station of its stamens, which are represented as growing from the outer edge of a deep glandular perigy- 

 nous disk. But if, as seems probable, that disk is a mere expansion of the footstalk, analogous to what 

 occurs in Eschscholtzia, then all difficulty about the station is removed, and the genus will fall into 

 the ranks of the Crowfoots ; a probability somewhat increased by its valvate aestivation, which is like 

 that of Clematis. Gbnus. Cephalotus, R. Br. Gen. 1 Sp. 1. 



Fig, , CCXCVIII. bis.- Ceratocephalus orthoceras. 1. flower: 2. ripe fruit; 3. ovaries ol Ranunculus 

 Krapfia j 4. section of carpel and seed of the same. 



