BANUNGULACE^. 23 



including in this group Glaucidium palinaliini S. & Zucc.,' the single 

 species of a genus wliicli, as we shall afterwards see, evidently links 

 RanuncidacecB to Berheridaccce and Papaveracece. Its flowers are her- 

 maphrodite, and on the convex receptacle are successively inserted a 

 calyx, an androceum, and a gynseceum. The calyx consists of four 

 free petaloid imbricated sepals, very caducous, as are also the very 

 numerous stamens, each of which consists of a free filament, and a 

 basifixed two-celled anther dehiscing by lateral clefts. The gynse- 

 ceum is formed of one or few carpels" inserted obliquely on the upper 

 tapering portion of the receptacle, and containing a large number of 

 anatropous ovules inserted along the inner angle. The ovary is 

 traversed by a longitudinal groove and surmounted by a depressed 

 emarginate papillose stigma. The fruit is formed of one or several 

 follicles dehiscing dorsally, with numerous flattened seeds surrounded 

 by a marginal wing. It is a perennial herb found in Japan, with 

 few alternate palmatilobed leaves, and pedunculate flowers recalling 

 those oi Fodophylhun:'' 



IREEGULAR FORM. 



If we examine an Aconite,^ as, for instance, A. Napelhi-s L., we see 

 that its flowers (figs. 43-47) are irregular and hermaphrodite. The 

 calyx is formed of five unlike coloured sepals, quincuncially imbri- 

 cated in the bud. The posterior sepal is like a hood covering the 

 two lateral sepals, which are symmetrical with respect to each other, 

 hardly irregular, and much broader than the two anterior ones, by 

 which they are also covered in the bud. These anterior sepals are 

 narrower and longer than the lateral ones, but are not altogether 

 similar to one another,' for sepal 3 is both broader and less 

 regular than sepal 1, which overlaps it on one side. Thcrt.- 



stamens with linear compressed filanionts, and flowers we liave been able to observe, there wore 



niucronate anthers ciuadrilocuUu- (?) in front. two inserted obliquely opposite one another ou ii 



Tlie carpels, few in number, are niultiovulate ; receptacle bevelled to form a dihedral angle, 

 and the fruits are, it is said, capsular. Only oi;e ^ It is to the roJophpUe,r, we have said (J</a>i- 



species is known, native in Japan ; A. macrophylla sniua:, iv. 57), that this plant presents a striking 



S. & Zttcc, which is a herb with broad ternately likene.-s when its gynicceum is of one crtrpel. 

 coni])ound radical leaves. Hee li.liy.oiilhe Gcmls ' Acomlum T., L)st., -12 t, t. 23!», 210.— 



Anemonopsis, its Position and Affinities, Adan- L., Gen., n. 682. — J., Gen., 23 1. — Dr., Frodi:, 



soma, viii. 14. i- 56.— SPACir, Suit, a Bn(f\, vii. ;U)0.— Kxdl.. 



1 Fl.Jap.Fam.Nat.,\.1Q,t.\.—Y.yv>-i..,G('n., Gen., n. 4797.— U. U., Gen., D, n. 26.— H. 



,1. 4804'.— Walp., ylw», i. 'J55.— H. H., Gen., 15n. Adansonia, iv. 50; Uict. line. Sc. Mrd., 



7^ n. 15. i. 574. — Mrbi.iia Don, Gen. i^i/sf., i. 203- 



- SlEBOLD and ZucCAlilUl have represented Enul., Gen., n. 1786 a. 

 the plant with a single carpel. In the few ^ Sec Adansunia, iv. !•, 50. 



