HANUNCULACEiE. (CEOWFOOT FAMILY.) S 



12. TBOIXIUS. Petals man^, minute and stamen-like, hoUoved near the base. Pods 8-15, 

 dessile. Leaves divided. 



18. COPTIS. Petals 5-6, small, hollowed at the apex. Pods 3-7, long-stalked. Sepals decid- 

 uous. Leaves divided. 



11. HKLLEBORDS. Petals 8-10, small, tubular, 2-lipped. Pods several, sessile. Sepals 6, 

 persistent, tumiog green with age. 



16. AQUILEGIA. Petals 5, spur-shaped, longer than the 5 deciduous sepals. Pods 5. 

 * * Flower unsymmetrical and irregular. Pods several-seeded. 



16. DELPHINIUM. Upper sepal spurred. Petals 4, of two forms ; the upper pair with long 



spurs, enclosed in the spur of the calyx. 



17. ACONITUM. Upper sepal hooded, covering the 2 long-clawed petals. 



# * * Flower symmetrical. Pods ripening only one seed. Shrubby. 



18. ZANTHOHHIZA. Petals 6, smaU, 2-lobed, with claws. Stamens few. Flowers in droop- 



ing compound racemes, polygamous. 



TaiBS y. CiniICIF1JCrE:.a6:. Sepalsimbricated, failing off as the sower opens. Petals 

 small and flat, or none. Pistils 1- several. Fruit a 2 - several-seeded pod or berry. 

 Leaves all alternate. 

 Id. HYDRASXIS. Flower solitary. Pistils several in a head, becoming berries in fn^t, 2- 

 seeded. Leaves simple, lobed. Petals none. 



20. ACTMA., Flowers in a single short raceme. Pistil single, forming a many-seeded berry. 



Leaves 2-8-temately compound. Petals manifest. 



21. CIMIOIFUGA. Flowers in long spiked racemes. Pistils 1 - 8, in fruit forming dry several- 



seeded pods. Leaves 2 - 3-teruately compound. 



1. ATRAGE]y£, L. Atkagene. 



Sepals 4, colored, their valvate margins slightly turned inwards in the bud. 

 Petals several, much smaller than the sepals, passing gradually into stamens. 

 Achenia numerous in a head, bearing the persistent styles in the form of long 

 plumose tails. — Perennial vines, climbing by the leafstalks; stems a little 

 woody. Buds scaly. Leaves opposite, compound. Peduncles 1-flowered. (A 

 name of obscure derivation, given to a climbing plant by Theophrastus.) 



1. A. Americana, Sims. (American Atbagene.) Leaflets stalked, 

 ovate, pointed, entire or a little toothed, sometimes slightly heai't-shaped. ( Clem- 

 atis verticillaris, DC.) — Shady rocky hills, Maine and "Western N. England to 

 Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and mountains of Virginia. April, May. — Prom 

 each of the opposite buds in spring arise two ternate leaves with long-stalked 

 leaflets, and a peduncle which bears a bluish-purple flower, 2-3 inches across. 



2. CLilElITIATIS, L. Virgin's-Bower. 



Sepals 4, colored, the valvate margins turned inwards in the bud. Petals 

 none. Achenia numerous in a head, bearing the persistent styles as naked, 

 hairy, or plumose tails. — Perennial herbs or vines, a little woody, and climbing 

 by the twisting of the leafstalks. Leaves opposite. (KXrifuiTls, a name of Di- 

 oscorides for a climbing plant with long and lithe branches.) 

 # Peduncles bearing single large nodding flowers : calyx leathery: anthers linear. 



■I- Stem erect and mostly simple : calyx silky outside. 

 1. C. ochrolenca, Ait. Leaves simple and entire, ovate, almost sessile, 

 Bllliy beneath, reticulated and soon smooth above ; tails of the fruit very plu- 



