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POPULAn FLORA. 



I. Polypctaloiis Division. 



1. CROWFOOT FAMILY. Order RANUNCULACEiE. 



Herbs, or sometimes slightly woody plants, with a colorless juice, sharp or acrid to the 

 taste. Parts of the flower all separate and distinct, and inserted on the receptacle. Petals 

 often wanting or of singular shapes. Stamens many, or at least more than 12. Pistils 

 many, or more than one (except in Larkspur, Baneberry, and Bugbane), and entirely 

 separate, except in Fennel-flower, in fruit becoming akenes or pods, or sometimes berries. 

 The leaves are generally compound, or much cut or parted, and without stipules. 



237. Flowei'of Pennsylvanian Anemony. 238. Half a flower of a Crowfoot, mag"nified. 239. A petal, showing its little scale 240. Pod 

 of Marsh IMariguld, opening. 241. A pistil of Anemony, niagnifiefl. the ovary cut through to show the ovule in it 242 .Akene of Crnw- 

 fool, enlarged. 243. Same, cut through to show the seed in it. 244 Enlarged cross-section of the sepals of Virgin*8-£ower No. 1, iu tho 

 bud. 245. Same of Virgin'B-Bower No 3. 246. Akene and feathery tail orstyle of Virgin's-Bower No. 1. 



The genera are numerous. The following table or key leads to the name of each. 



Climbing plants, with opposite, generally compound leaves, no real petals, the edges of 



the sepals turned inwards in the bud, ( Clematis) Viegin's-Bower. 

 Not climbing: leaves all alternate except in Anemony: sepals overlapping in the bud. 

 Pistils many or several, one-seeded, becoming akenes in fruit. 

 Petals none: but the sepals colored like petals. 



Three leaves under the flower exactly imitating a calyx, {Hepdtica) Hepatica. 



