4 RANUNCULACEJE. [ANEMONE. 



2. A. nemoro'sa, L. ; sepals 6 (rarely 5-9) oblong glabrous spreading, 



stamens all perfect, achenes with short straight styles. Wood Anemone. 



Woods and copses fron Sutherland southd. ; ascends to - 2,800 ft. in the 



Highlands; Ireland; fl. April-May. Nearly glabrous, slender. Eootstock 



horizontal, woody. Scape 4-8 in. Leaves few, usually remote from the 



scape, petioled, 3-foliolate; leaflets narrow, subsessile, cut lobed or 



innatifid; involucral like the radical, petioled. Flower solitary, 1-1| in. 

 iarn., homogainoiis, honeyleFS. Sepals oblong, white, rarely purple. 

 Achenes downy, as long as the style. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), "W. Siberia, 

 N. America. 



3*. ADO'NIS, L. PHEASANT'S-EYE. 



Herbs, annual or perennial. Leaves much divided. Sepals 5-8, peta- 

 loid, imbricate in bud. Petals 5-16, yellow or red, eglandular. Carpels 

 many ; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit a spike or head of many achenes ; 

 style short, persistent. DISTRIB. Temp. Europe and Asia ; species 3-4. 

 ETYM. classical. 



A. AUTUMNA'LIS, X. ; annual, flowers globose, petals broad concave. 

 Naturalized in Suffolk, and S. counties, sporadic elsewhere, and in Scotland 

 and Ireland; (alien or colonist, Wats.)-, fl. May-Sept. Stem 8-10 in., 

 erect, branched, very leafy. Leaves decompound ; segments small, linear. 

 Sepals greenish. Petals scarlet, with a dark basal spot, suberect, rather 

 longer than the sepals. Head of reticulated achenes sometimes elongate. 

 DISTEIB. Europe, "W". Asia, N. Africa ; introd. in America. 



A. MYOSU'RUS, L. MOUSE-TAIL. 



Small annual herbs. Leaves narrow, all radical. Scapes 1-fld. Sepals 

 5, rarely 6-7, with a small basal spur. Petals 5, rarely 6-7, or 0, small, 

 narrow, tubular. Stamens few. Carpels many ; ovule 1, pendulous. 

 Fruit a long spike of densely packed achenes ; style short, persistent. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia, S. America, Australasia ; species 2. ETYM. 

 IJLVS and ovpd., mouse-tail. 



M. min'imus, L. ; spike slender, style very short. 



Cornfields, &c., from Northumberland to Kent and Devon ; Channel Islands ; 

 fl. April-June. Glabrous, 2-6 in. Leaves erect, many, linear, rather fleshy. 

 Scapes many, slender. Flowers minute, yellow-green, proterandrous.. Sepals 

 5, narrow-oblong ; spur appressed to the scape. P.etals 5 ; limb short, 

 ligulate. Spike of achenes 1-3 in. ; receptacle filiform ; achenes attached 

 ventrally, minute, keeled, back mucronate. DISTRIB. Europe, W. Asia, 

 N. Africa ; introd. in America, &c. 



5. RANUN'CUIiUS, L. BUTTERCUP, OROWFOOT. 



Annual or perennial usually acrid herbs. Leaves entire lobed or com- 

 pound ; stipules membranous or 0. Flowers usually panicled, white or 

 yellow (the British species). Sepals 3-5, caducous. Petals usually 5, rarely 

 0, glandular near or above the base. Stamens many. Carpels many ; style 

 short ; ovule 1, ascending. Fruit a head or spike of apiculate or beaked 



