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No such calyx-like lervvcs (or involucre) close to the flower. 



Flowers single, on long, naked stalks^, {Anemone) Anemotty. 



Flowers several in a simple umbel, handsome, ) ^ TImKctrum) Meadow-Rue. 



Flowers many in a panicle, small, ) 



Petals present as well as sepals, the latter falling off early, (lianunculus) Ckowfoot. 



Pistils more than one-seeded, becoming pods- (except in Baneberi-y). 

 Sepals petal-like, not falling when the flower first opens, and 

 1 Golden-yellow: petals none. Leaves rounded, not cut, {Caltlin) Maesh-Warigold. 



Yellow or yellowish: petals stamen-like. Leaves deeply cut, ( r«)//(as) Gloee-flowek. 

 White: pistils sever.al, on st.alks of their own. Leaflets 3, (Coplis) Goldthread. 



Blue, purple, red, &c., rarely white. Pistils not stalked. 



Pistils 5, united below into a bladdery pod, {Nigella) * Fenkel-Flowek. 



Pistils 2 to 5, rarely one, separate. 



Sepals 5, all alike: petals 5, in the form of large spurs, (Aquilsgia) Colujibixb. 

 Sepals 5, dissimilar. Flower irregular. 



Upper sepal long-spurred: petals 4, {Delphinium) Larkspur. 



Upper sepal hood- or helmet-shaped; petals 2, {Aconitum) Acoxite. 



Sepals petal-like, white, falling when the flower opens: petals minute or none. 



Flowers in a short raceme. Pistil one, m.aking a b£rry, {Actuin) Banebeery. 



Flowers in a long raceme. Fruit a dry pod, ( Cimicifuga) Bugbaxe. 



Sepals le.af-hke, not falling off: petals large and showy, {Pcednia) * Peoxy. 



*** Those genera which have more than one common species are next given, with the distinguishing 



marlts of the species. 



Virgin's-Bower. Clematis. 

 Calyx of 4 petal-like sepals, their marf ins not overlapping, but turned or rolled inwards in the bud. 

 (Fig. 244, a cross-section of the calyx in the bud, shdws this slightly in species No. 1, and Fig, 245, 

 much rolled inwards, in No. S.) No real petals. Fruit of many akenes, their style remaining gen- 

 erally in the form of a long and feathery tail (Fig. 246>s Flowering in summer. 



1. Wild Virgin's-Bower. Flowers white, in panicles, small, somewhat dioecious; leaflets 3, toothed; 



akenes with long feathery tails (Fig. 246). Banks of streams. C. Viri/iniana. 



2. Sweet V. Flowers panicled, white; leaflets 6 to 9, entire. Cultivated in g.ardens. C. Flammula. 

 8. ViXE-BowEK. Flower single; sepals purple, large; fruit short-tailed, naked. Cult. C. Viiicella. 



Hepatica (or Liverleaf). Hepdtica. 

 Calyx of 6 to 12 pefal-Hke sepals, which are natur.ally taken for a corolla, because just underneath 

 is a whorl of 3 little leaves exactly resembling a calyx ; but it is a little way below the flower. Eeal 

 petals none. Pistils several, making naked-pointed akenes. — Low herbs, in woods, sending up from the 

 ground, in early spring, rounded 3-lobed leaves, which last over the next winter, and scapes with 

 single (blue, purple, or nearly white) flowers. 



1. EouND-LonED H. Lobes of the leaves 3, rounded and blunt. Common N. & E. 11. triloba. 



2. Shaei'-lobed H. Lobes of the leaves 8 or 5, acute. Common W. n. acutiloba. 



Ane'mony. Anemone. 

 Calyx of from 6 to 15 petal-like sepals; no leaves just underneath it, but the flowers on long and 

 naked footstalks. No real petals. Akenes blunt or short-pointed, not ribbed nor grooved. Perennial 

 herbs : their upper or stem-leaves opposite or in whorls. Flowers generally single, handsome. The 



