136 RANUNCULACILE. [Cl. 13. 



and genera, as the 8th Class is a monopetalous one. 

 The series of Orders is made as natural as circum- 

 stances will allow, in this, as in the former, case. 



Ord. 61. RANUXCULACFJE. " Calyx of many 

 leaves, sometimes wanting. Petals usually 5. Sta- 

 mens indefinite, except in Jlfyosurus" (where how- 

 ever they are variable). " Anthers continuous with 

 the Filaments. Germens several, indefinite or defi- 

 nite, rarely but one. Style one to each, rarely want- 

 ing, with a solitary Stigma. Capsules, rarely Berries, 

 as many ; in some instances single-seeded, and not 

 bursting; in others many-seeded, splitting at the 

 inner edge, halfway down, into 2 valves, whose edges 

 bear the Seeds. Embryo minute, in a cavity at the 

 upper part of a large horny Albumen. Stem mostly 

 herbaceous. Leaves alternate, or rarely, in Clematis 

 and Atragene, opposite ; some half sheathing ; others 

 compound, either pinnate or digitate; others again 

 simple, and in that case either palmate, or otherwise 

 lobed, their sinuses frequently pale." 



Sect. 1. Capsules single-seeded, not bursting. (These 

 are reckoned naked Seeds by Linnaeus.) In Hydrdstis 

 they are Berries. Clematis, fig. 213, Atragene, Tha- 

 lictrum, Hydrastis, Anemone, Hamadryas Commers. 

 Adonis, Ranunculus, fig. 2 1 4, Ficaria and Myosurus. 

 Sect. 2. Caps, many-seeded, bursting internally. 

 Petals irregular. (What Jussieu here terms Petals, 

 are Nectaries according to Linnaeus, the coloured 

 Calyx of the former being Linnteus's Petals.) Trol- 



