14 RANUNCULACER. 
DIVISION I. POLYPETALA. 
RANUNCULACEX, 
* Petals and sepals similarly colored. 
Sepals and petals slender: carpels 3 to 8 on stipes: smooth; evergreen........2..--.. & 
Petals 5 spur-like sacs: follicles 5: flowers nodding: leaves compound..........--.-- 10 
Opper sepal with a spur enclosing spurs of two petals: petals 4....... wiselesiseinen ase li 
Upper sepal a hood enclosing spurs of two petals...............-- aibiaisieie bine ae nies eed 12 
Minute white flowers in dense capitate racemes: pistil single....... wemidoduyemite obec 18 
Flowers pinkish or whitish on scapes............ cee ceeceeee ceeecenees niece eeciacalehe 6 
Flowers solitary on scapes: receptacle elongated: leaves slender, entire.............. 5 
* * Petals and sepals not similarly colored, 
Petals yellow white or pinkish: akenes small, beaked................. dsteeesien wisi @ 
Petals fleshy, dull purple: follicles large: leaves glaucous.............. iiieimied eereeee 14 
* * * Petals wanting : sepals petaloid, 
Woody climbers: leaves opposite: sepals 4: akenes plumose........... Seisistpieieie S e's's5s5 1 
A whorl of leaves below the flower: akenes many...............+- sisi is siete cieSGiociears 
Leaves cordate: sepals greenish, large: follicles 5 to 12........ aratefatcla's Sieiamaivieddieiereie: (18 
Leaves 2-3-ternately compound: follicles pointed.... ..........+.0.eeeee musiwsnen 9 
Flowers small, greenish, in panicles: leaves 2-3-ternate..........-..s.--06 sarvesoes 2 
Flowers small, white; panicles corymbose, akenes 4-angled, ihe secacceareccces. 6 
1. CLEMATTS, Linngus. 
C. ligusticifolia, Nuttall. Leaves 5-foliolate: sepals white, ailky, 
C. lasiantha, Nutt. Leaves 3-foliolate: peduncles |-2-bracteate. 
C. pauciflora, Nutt. Leaves fascicled: akenes smooth, 
C. verticillaris, DO. Flowers bluish purple, large, solitary, 
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2, ANEMONE, Linnzus, 
A. occidentalis, Watson. Akenes plumose-tailed: alpine. 
A, multifida, DC. Akenes densely woolly: sepals villova 
A. nemorosa, Linn. Leaves 3, petioled, ternate, incisely lobed. 
A. deltoidea, Hooker. Leaves usually entire, serrate. 
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