1. KANUNCULACE^]. 



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herbs ; rootstock perennial. Radical leaves decompound ; cauline few or 0. Flowers white. 

 Europe, Asia. 



8. Myosurus. Sepals 5 (rarely 6-7), prolonged into a spur below their insertion. Petals 

 as many as the sepals, narrow, spathulate ; claw filiform, tubular, nectariferous at the top. 

 Carpels numerous. Achenes minute, in a long spike, laterally attached ; style short, per- 

 sistent. Annual, small herbs. Leaves entire, all radical. Scapes 1 -flowered, naked. Flowers 

 minute. Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand. 



Tribe III. EANUNCTJIE^E, D.C. Sepals imbricate. Petals with a nectariferous 

 claw, rarely (Trautvetteria) . Carpels 1-ovuled; ovule ascending, raphe ventral. 

 Achenes dry. Herbs. Leaves radical or alternate. 



Ranunculus. Vertical section of flower (mag.). 



Ceratocephalus 

 Petal, inr.er 

 face (mag.). 



Ranunculus. 



Achene, entire and cut vertically ''mag.) 



Ranunculus. 

 Petal, inner face (mag.). 



N 



Ranunculus. 

 Upright seed (mag.). 



Ceratocephalus. 

 Ripe pistil. 



