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DIVISION" I. POLYPETAL^ 

 RANUNCULAOEJ;, 



* Petals and sepals similarly colored. 



Sepals and petals slender: carpels 3 to 8 on stipes: smooth; evergreen 8 



Petals 5 spnr-like sacs: follicles 5: flowers nodding: leaves compound 10 



Upper sepal with a spnr enclosing spurs of two petals: petals 4 11 



Upper sepal a hood enclosing spurs of two petals 12 



Minute white flowers in dense capitate racemes: pistil single IS 



Flowers pinkish or whitish on scapes 6 



Flowers solitary on scapes: receptacle elongated: leaves slender, entire 6 



* * Petals and sepals not similarly colored. 



Petals yellow white or pinkish: akenes small, beaked 6 



Petals fleshy, dull purple: follicles large: leaves glaucous 14 



* " * Petals wanting : sepals petaloid. 



Woody climbers: leaves opposite: sepals 4: akenes plumose 1 



A whorl of leaves below the flower: akenes many 2 



Leaves cordate: sepals greenish, large: follicles 5 to 12 f 



Leaves 2-3-temately compound: follicles pointed d 



Flowers small, greenish, in panicles: leaves 2-3-temate 3 



Flowers small, white; panicles corymbose, akenes 4-angled, inflated « 



1, CIi£IIATTS, Linnaeu£. 



ligrusticifolia, Nuttall. Leaves 5-foliolate: sepals white, silky, 

 lasiantlia, Kutt. Leaves 3-foliolate: peduncles I-2-bracteate. 

 pauciflora, Kutt. Leaves fascicled: akenes smooth, 

 verticillaris, DO. Flowers bluish purple, large, solitary. 



2. ANEStONE, Liunasns. 



1. A. occidentalis, Watson. Akenes plumose- tailed: alpine. 



2. A, miiltifida, DC. Akenes densely woolly: sepals viUoci, 



3. A. nemorosa, Linn. Leaves 3, petioled, temate, incisely lobed. 



4. A, deltoldea. Hooker. Leaves usually entire, serrate. 



