BANUNCULACEAE. X4? 



Sepals deciduous; stem- scape-like, bearing' one leaf. 



, ,. . , 5. Camman^n. 



blowers regular ; leav.es ternately pr pinnately compound or decompound. 

 Petals not spurred. 



Low herbs with solitary or panicled flowers. 6. Coptis. 



Low shrub with racemose flowers. 7. Xanthorrh/iea. 



Tall, erect herbs with racemose flowers. 



Fruit berries. 8. Actaea. 



Fruit follicles. 9. Cvmicifuga. 



Petals prolonged backward into hbllow spurs. 10. Aqwilegia. 

 Flowers irregular. ' ' 11. Delphinium- 



Carpel 1-ovuled: fruit an achene. 



Flowers subtended by involucres remote from the calyx or close under 

 it; sepals petal-like. 

 Involucre remote from the calyx; styles short, subulate. 



12. Anemone. 

 Involucre of 3 simple sessile leaves clbse under the flower. 



13. Hepatica. 

 Involucre of 3 compound sessile leaves ; leaflets stalked ; stigma 



sessile. 14. Syndesmoji. 



Flowers not subtended by involucres. 

 Leaves opposite; sepals petal-like. 



Petals wanting, 15. Clematis. 



Petals present, small, spatulate. 16. Atragene. 



Leaves alternate or basal. , 



Petals present, bearing a nectariferous pit at the base of the 

 plade. 

 Achenes' compressed, smooth, papillose or spiny; flowers 



yellow. 17. Bqnv/neulw. 



Achenes transversely wrinkled; flowers white. 



18. Batrachium. 

 Achenes swollen, smooth; sepals 3, petals mostly 8. 



19. Ficaria. 

 Achenes compressed or terete, longitudinally nerved, 



20. Oxygraphis. 

 Petals none; leaves ternately oompound. 21. Thalictntlm. 



1. HYDRASTIS Ellis. 

 1, Hydrastis Canadensis L. Golden Seal fl Orange Boot, Yellow Puccoon r . 

 M. p. 412. Bich woods. Spring. 

 Philadelphia— (P.). Bucks— Bock Hill (Or.), near Quakertown (Fr.). 

 Montgomery— Manayunk, Mart. (B. C), Sumneytown (VP.). Delaware 

 —Darby, Glen Mills, (Fu.), Concord (He.), Wawa, Upper Providence 

 near Crum Creek (B. Sm.). Chester— Willistown Twp. (Pr.), Poeopsin 

 (St.), Cheyney (Ws.). Lancaster— Peach Bottom (Ca.), York Furnace 

 (Cr.) (Lb.). Lehigh— Bockdale (Kr.). 



New Castle— Mount Cuba (Ha.) (Ke.), Hockessin, Midheuer; Ashland, 

 Commons; Bockland, Tatnall and Commons; Yorklyn. 



2. CALTHA L. 



1. Caltha palustms L. Marsh-marigold. M. p. 412. Swamps and Wet 



meadows. Spring. 



Philadelphia— Byberry, Mart. (B. C), Franklin Woods, Germantown 



(Me.). Buclcs — Sellersville, common (Fr.), Bock Hill (Mac), Bonair 



(Sa.), Haycock Mountain (Ws.). Montgomery — Bryn Mawr (Ke.), CheV 



ten Hills (Te.). Delaware — Near Media (Fu.) (B. Sm.), Glen Mills 



