RANUNCULACEAE.Ax.s. Crowfoot Family. 

 Annual or perennial herbs, with colorless usually acrid juice; and poly- 

 pL'talous or apetalous, regular or irregular flowers. Leaves simple --r 

 dissected, opposite or alternate; petioles dila'ted. Sepals 3-15, frequently 

 petaloid. Petals 3-15. Stamens usually many. Fruit dry achenes, fol- 

 licles, or berries. 



* Leaves opposite, termiiiotiwj in tendrils; sepals -I, petaloid. 

 Clematis. Woody climbing plants. 



* * Upper luitvcs opposite or mh-irhyl; pi-]iui':lcs with one apetalous Slower. 

 Anemone, involucre liliaceous, remote from the flower. 

 Hepatjca. involucre close to the flower, calyx-like. 

 anemonella. Flowers umbellate. 

 Thaliutrum. Sepals 4, petaloid or greenish. 



*** Sepal* usually 5; petals prevent; aclieiicx many. 

 Ranunculus. Petals yellow, rarely white, with a nectariferous pit or scale at ths base 



inside. 

 Myosubus. Flowers solitary, scapose; petals 5. white. 



* * * * Flowers conspicuous, apetalous, not raccoiuse; sepals peialoid. 

 Caltha. Leaves kidney -shaped, undivided; flowers yellow. 

 Isopykum. Leaves divided; flowers white, 



***** Sepals or petals spurred. 

 Aquilegla. Petals produced backward into 5 hollow spurs. 

 Delphinium. Upper sepal produced backward into a long spur. 



***** * Flowers rcyular; fruit a berry. 

 Actaea. Flowers small, in a single short raceme ; pistil 1. 

 Hydrastis. Flowers apetalous, solitary; rods yellow. 



CLEMATIS L. Virgin's-Bower. Woody climbing plants, with opposite pin- 

 nate leaves, terminating in tendrils; and large purplish flowers. Sepals 4. 

 Petals none. Achenes many, in a globular head, with long persistent styles. 

 * Flowers rjjowse-paniculatc. 



C. virginiana L. Common V. Leaves petioled, of 3 ovate leaflets; leaflets 

 cut or lobed; styles persistent, plumose. A trailing vine, common in low 

 grounds in thickets or along fence- rows; July-Sept. 



* ^Flowers solitary. 



C. pitcheri T. & G. Leaflets 3-7, ovate, 1-3-lobed; sepals thin, tips recurv- 

 ed; achenes with filiform, persistent, silky, but not plumose styles. Thickets; 

 June-August; frequent. ( C. simsii Sweet. ) 



C. tfiorna L. Leather-flower. Similar to the preceding; persistent styles 

 plumose. This species has been frequently reported but the author has seen 

 no reliable specimens, the so-called specimen's not being in fruit their identity 

 was questionable. 



ANEMONE L. Anemone. Wind-flower. Perennial herbs, with the leaves 

 mostly radical, lcng-petioled, the few cauline, whorled so as to form a folia- 

 ceous involucre remote from the flower, all compound or dissected. Pedun- 

 cles 1-flowered. Sepals 5-20, petal-like. Petals none or in one of abortive sta- 

 mens. Fruit compressed 1-seede d achenes. 



