Planche 16. 



Famille des Renonculac6es. 



(Suite.) 



Fig. 1. Ancolie des Alpes. Le calice et 

 la corolle sent colores en bleu. Chaque petale 

 est prolonge inferieurement en un long et 

 gracieux eperon qui n'est autre chose qu un 

 reservoir a miel. Cette belle grande fleur se 

 balaneant au but de son style flexueux est un 

 modele de grace et d'elegance. Dispersee dans 

 tout le territoire des Alpes centrales et occi- 

 dentales (a 1'Orient s'etend jusqu'en Engadine), 

 mais nulle part elle n'est abondante. Alpes 

 de Vilters, Scheibe, Untersandalp, vallee de 

 Muhlbach, Alpe de Baumgarten (Glaris), Sils, 

 Bernina, Wellborn, Bettenalp, vallee de Gasteren, 

 Gemini, Rawyl Campolungo, Piora, Zinal, Zer- 

 matt, Val d'llliez, etc. 



Fig. 2. Trolle d'Europe. Calice formfe d'un 

 grand nombre de sepales jaunes, petaloides; 

 corolle reduite a de petites languettes. 



Pres et paturages humides, de la region 

 montagneuse jusqu'a 2100 m. 



Fig. 3. Anemone a fleurs de Narcisse. Fleurs 

 en ombelles; fruits depourvus d'aigrettes plu- 

 meuses. 



Paturages, gazons, de 1300 a 2800 m. 



Fig. 4. Anemone des Alpes. Fleurs blanches 

 a 1'interieur, bleuatres a 1'exterieur, surtout a 

 1'etat de boutons. Fruits portant de longues 

 aigrettes formant par leur reunion one sorte de 

 touffe plumeuse grisatre. 



Paturages, gazons, eboulis, de 1200 a 2800m, 

 surtout sur lea terrains calcaires. 



Fig. 5. Anemone a fleurs jaunes. Item- 

 place sur le terrain primitif 1' Anemone alpina 

 du calcaire. 



Paturages, gazons, de 1300 a 2800 m. 



Fig. 6. Angmone printaniere. Facile a re- 

 connaitre par les poils jaunes dorees de 1'ex- 

 terieur de la fleur. Cette Anemone appartient 

 a la flore printaniere des Alpes, qui epanouit 

 ses fleurs delicates immediatement apres la fonte 

 de la neige. 



Paturages, gazons, de 1100 a 2800 m. 



Plate 16. 



Ranunculaeeous Plants. 



Fig. 1. Alpine Columbine. Calyx and co- 

 rolla blue, the petals forming prettily curved 

 boneyspurs. The whole flower balanced on its 

 delicate stalk presents a perfect form of grace. 



Scattered over the whole district of the 

 W, and central Alps (has its E. limit in the 

 Engadine) but nowhere common: Yilterser Alps, 

 Weisstannenthal, Scheibe, the lower Sandalp, 

 Muhlebachthal, Baumgarten-Alp (Glarus), Sils, 

 Bernina, Wellborn, Bettenalp, Gasteren thai, 

 Gemmi, Rawyl, Campolungo, Piora, Zinal, Zer- 

 matt, Val d'llliez, Chermontane, Mauvoisin, 

 Catogne, St. Bernard, Alpes de Fully etc. In 

 the Western and Central Alps, outside these 

 only in the Apennines. 



Fig. 2. Globe-flower. One of the Ranun- 

 culacese whose calyx is composed of numerous 

 yellow sepals, whereas the corolla is reduced to 

 small tongueshaped pelals. 



Damp meadows, from the mountain region 

 up to 2100 m. Widely distributed; in the 

 North only in Scandinavia and in England. 



Fig. 36. Anemones. The genus Anemone 

 belongs to the family of the Crowfoots (Ra- 

 nunculaceae). It is distinguished from Ranun- 

 culus by there being no calyx but only sepals 

 and petals which are of the same colour. 



Fig. 3. Narcissus-flowered Anemone. 28 

 flowers arranged in an umbel rise from a green 

 involucre. The flowers are white on their inner 

 surface, but outside they are often tinged with 

 red. The seeds do not possess a feathery style. 



Meadows, turf, WildheuplStze" *) , from 

 13002200. Widely distributed, also in North- 

 ern Asia, but absent in Scandinavial 



Fig. 4. Alpine Anemone. Flower inside 

 white, outside especially in the bud tinged with 

 blue. Seeds forming a globular nead. ,,Gems- 

 bart" or ,,Bocksbart" (Chamois' beard). The 

 numerous single seeds have tail-like appendices 

 formed by the feathery styles; these facilitate 

 the dispersion of the seeds by means of the wind. 



On meadows, turf, grassy, stony slopes, 

 from 12002800 m, especially on chalk. Ab- 

 sent in the Northern regions of the old world, 

 but met with in North-America. 



Fig. 5. Yellow Anemone. This is a yellow 

 flowering form (growing on the primary for- 

 mations) of the white flowering Alpine Anemone, 



Meadows, turf, WildheuplStze"*), from 

 18002800 m. 



Fig. 6. Spring-Anemone. Characterised by 

 ita glittering loug tufts of hair which cover the 

 outside of the flower. It belongs to the spring- 

 flowers of the Alpine Flora, which open their 

 flowers immediately after the snow has melted. 

 Meadows, turf, from 11002800 m. Scan- 

 dinavia, Siberia, Carpathians. In the north 

 German plains it is a plant of the pine forests ; 

 also in the Alps, Vosges, Auvergne and in the 

 Pyrenees. 



*) For explanation of this word vide plate 8. 



