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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



species of plants, often cultivated for the beauty of tlieir flowers, and 

 found chiefly growing in the temperate regions and cold and hilly 

 countries all over the world. K/ioirlfo/iia and Jdo/iix belong only to 

 the Old Continent ; but the true Anemones, though more abundant 

 in Europe and Asia,' are also met with in America.- 



Banuncidus rutafoHus L.,' which has become the type of a small 

 genus under the name CaUiantliemiun,^ presents, with the habit of a 

 Ranuneult(.s, flowers which are externally exactly like those of an 

 Adonis. The perianth consists of a herbaceous quincuncial perianth 

 and a double corolla with membranous leaves, variable in number 

 and subject to deduph cation.' The base of each petal (fig. 85) has 



CaUianlhemxim rutcefoUum. 

 Fig. 85. Fio. 86. Fio. 87. 



Petal. Carpels opened at difierent ages. 



a small nectariferous depression with the inner border nearly hori- 

 zontal ; the stamens are indefinite,' But the chief characteristic of 



' Walp., Rep., i. 14; ii. 738; v. 4; Ann., 

 i. 6 ; ii. 5; iv. KJ. — Hook. & Tii., Fl. Ltd., 

 i. ID.— llAitv. & SoM)., Fl. Cf?;)., i. f).— Hf.ntii., 

 Fl. Amir., \. 8.— S. & Zl'CC, Fl.Jap. Fain., 70. 



" C. Gav, Fl. C/iil., i. 19.— A. Gkay, Oen. 

 III., t. 3-5. — Weddell, ChlorU andina, ii. 21)8. 



A. S. H., Fl. finui. Mer, i. 4.— Maul, Fl. 



Brazil., Kcnonc, 15(i. 



' Spec. PI.. 777.-.IACQ., Coll.. i. ISC. t. 0. 7. 



DC., I'rodr., i. 30. — Ranunculus Bellardi 



\U.U, iJauph., 4, t. 4<>. 



* C. A. Mey.. in Leukh., Fl. Alt., ii. 336. - 

 Endu, Oen., u. 477t).— H. H., Gm. 5. ii. 7.— 

 Wali'., Rn>' •• •*•'; ^'•'•" '^' 16.— II. Hn., 

 Adannunia, iv. 23, 53. 



' The corolla of C. rutafolium C. A. Mky. is 

 double. The outer whorl is fonncd of live petals 

 Hltoniatiiip: with tlie caducous sepals. The inner 

 one is formed of one, two, or as many as to (ive 

 petals, which alternate with the former, and of 

 which several may nnderpi de<luplication. The 

 flowers then have from six or seven to fifloen 

 petals, and when these are numerous the inner 

 ones are relatively narrow. 



" In C. aciiule ('AJin. the anthers have a mar- 

 ginal dehiscence. In C. nihifolium ('. A. AIkv., 

 it is jtist a little more interior than exterior. In 

 hoth the liliiments arc lluttcncHl and the untheni 

 hasitlxcd. 



