16 BANUNCULACEZ. (OROWFOOT FAMILY.) 
DIVISION I. POLYPETALA. 
Orver 1. RANUNCULACEZ:. 
Herbs or shrubs, with colorless juice; foliage various; stipules none; organs of the 
flower free and distinct; sepals, petals, and pistils few or many; stamens numerous; petals. 
sometimes wanting, then the sepals are usually petaloid; anthers short and adnate; seeds. 
with minute embryos in fleshy albumen. 
* Flowers regular. 
Petals none; shrubby climbers................... atatadsrasarsioeetasstapacatasngars Clematis, 1 
Petals none; small herbs................ee0e00- dita lane isinscsonevaieveisoes .eeee.- Anemone. 2° 
Petals 5 or more; carpels nUMEFOUS........-. eee eee eee eee SPs .. Ranunculus. 3: 
Petals 5, spurred; carpels 5. ........ccee cee cec eee eeeeeee ea oanie ..-.-Aquilegia. 4 
** Flowers irregular; colored sepals conspicuous. 
Upper sepal spurred............-..-- b:jai8 hibvanewrwhase isvaveie evosnw te ...-.,Delphinium. 5 
Upper sepal hooded. ...........eeeeeeees isiavaah as ipevesavaasaravayeverara aacedeauieails Aconitum, 6. 
** * Senals large, leaf-like, persistent. 
Flowers large...........2e0e00- srabvansvaheueverevove vuanstetsle layetiae nose sees budeeveauenivecg a Peonia. 7 
1. CLEMATIS, L Virern’s Bower, 
Sepals 4, colored and petal-like, valvate in the bud. Pistils numerous; styles persistent, 
becoming long feathery tails in fruit. Half-woody climbers or perennial herbs, with 
opposite leaves. 
1. C. ligusticifolia, Nutt. Stems climbing by the petioles of the 5-foliolate leaves; 
leaflets broadly ovate to lanceolate, 14 to 3 inches long, acute or acuminate, 3-lobed and. 
coarsely toothed, rarely entire or 3-parted. Flowers diccious, paniculate; sepals thin, 
silky, white, 4 to 6 lines long; akenes pubescent; tails 1 to 2 inches long. 
Var. Californica, Watson. Leaves silky-tomentose beneath, often small. 
2. C. lasiantha, Nutt. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate, 1 to 14 inches long, acute, 
coarsely toothed or 3-lobed or the terminal 3-parted, Flowers solitary on 1-2-bracted: 
peduncles; sepals obtuse, thick, 6 to 10 lines long. 
2. ANEMONE, L 
Sepals 4 to 20, colored and petal-like, imbricated in the bud. Petals none. Pistils- 
numerous; style short; stigma lateral; akenes compressed, pointed, in a head. Erect. 
perennial herbs, with lobed or divided leaves, which are radical, except those which form: 
an involucre below the flower. 
