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I. KANUNCULACE^]. 



Ficaria nt>ninctoitlft. 



Crraloefphalus. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.), 



Ceraiottphalvs. 

 Young carpel (mag.). 



Ceratoftphalui. 



Achene 

 cat verticiill}' (mag.). 



Ficaria. 

 Vertical section of flower (mag.). 



CeratocrphaJui. 

 Seed (mug.). 



Firaria 

 Carj*l (mag.). 



Ficaria. 

 Stunieu(inag.). 



Fieariti. Diagram. 



'J. Trautvetteria. Sepals 3-5, concave. Petals 0. Carpels numerous. Acltenes capitate, 

 membranous ; style very short. Embryo rather large. Herbs frith perennial rootstock. 

 Leaves palmatilobed, cauline few. Flowers in a corymbose panicle. North America and Japan. 



10. * Ranunculus. Sepals 3-5, caducous. Petals as many, or more numerous, with a 

 basal nectariferous pit or scale. Carpels numerous. Achenes in a head or spike, beaked by 

 the short style. Annual, or oftener perennial herbs. Leaves entire or cut. Flowers white, 

 yellow or red, solitary or panicled. Almost cosmopolitan. The aquatic species have been 

 made into a separate genus (Batrachiuin) by several modern botanists, on account of their 

 transversely wrinkled achenes, and habitat. Ficaria has been separated, from having three 

 sepals, 6-9 petals, and obtuse carpels ; and Ceratocephalus, because the base of the carpels 

 presents two external gibbosities, and internally two empty cells, and the carpels are further 

 produced into a horn five to six times as long as the seed. 



11. Hamadryas. Flowers dioecious by suppression. Sepals 5-G, caducous or subpersistent. 

 Petals 10-12, with a basal scale. Carpels numerous. Achenes capitate, tipped by the short 



