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I. EANUNCULACE^E. 



22b. Gai idella. Sepals 5, petaloid, caducous. Petals 5, 2-labiate. Follicles 2-3, sessile, 

 coherent at the base, and opening at the top ; style very short. Seeds 2-seriate. Slender 

 herbs. Leaves finely multifid. Flowers small, white. Mediterranean Region. 



23. *Aquilegia. Sepals 5, regular, petaloid, deciduous. Petals 5, like a cornucopia or 

 hood, attached by the margin of the limb, and nectariferous at the base of the cavity. Lower 

 stamens reduced to scale-like staminodes. Carpels 5, sessile, distinct, many-ovuled, follicular 

 when ripe. Seeds with crustaceous, smooth or granular testa. Erect herbs; rootstock 

 perennial. Leaves ternately decompound. Flowers conspicuous, blue, yellow, scarlet, or parti- 

 coloured, solitary or panicled. Europe, Asia, North America. 



24. * Delphinium. Sepals 5, petaloid, unequal, subcoherent at the base, the posterior 

 turned up in a horn or spur. Petals 2 or 4, small, all sometimes united, the two upper pro- 

 longed into a pointed spur included in that of the calyx ; the two lateral not spurred, or 0. 

 Carpels 1-5, sessile, distinct, many-ovuled, follicnlar when ripe. Seeds subfleshy. Annual 

 herbs, or with perennial rootstock, erect, branched. Leaves palmatilobed or dissected. 



larkspur. 

 Andrcecium ami 

 pistil. 



Larkspur. Flower cut vertically (mng.). 



Larkspur. (Delphinium contolitla.) 



Larkspur. 

 Diagram 



Larkspur. 



Seed, on tiro and cut 



vertically (mug.). 



Ijirkspur. 

 Upper sepal. 



