1. RANUNCULACEJE. 



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pound, cauline small or bract-like, or 0. Flowers greenish or yellowish, peduncles often 

 irregularly umbellate. Sou-h Africa. 



6. *Adonis. Sepals 5-8, coloured, deciduous. Petals 5-16, often spotted at base, but with 

 no nectariferous hollow. Carpels numerous. Achenes in a head or spike ; style short, per- 

 sistent, straight or hooked. Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves pinnatipartite, multifid, 

 segments narrow. Flowers solitary, yellow or red. Europe, Asia. 



7. *Calliantliemum. Sepals 5, herbaceous, deciduous. Petals 5-15, with a basal nectari- 

 ferous pit. Carpels numerous. Achenes capitate; style short, persistent. Alpine, low 



Anemone Pulsatilla. Anemone Pvlsatilla. 

 Pistil (mag.). Androecium and pistil. 



Anemone Pulsatilla. Diagram. 



Anemone Pulsatilla. 

 Stamen (mag.). 



Anemone Hepatica. 



Carpel entire and 



cut vertically (mag.). 



Anemone Pulsatilla. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



Anemone Hepatica. 



Fruit and involucre 



(mag.). 



Pasqne flower. 

 (Anemone I'u/sntilUi.) 



Anemone nemorosa. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.)- 



Anemone Pulsatilla. 

 Ripe achene cut vertically. 



