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POPULAR FLORA. 



I. Polypetalous Division. 



1. CROWrOOT FAMILY. Order RANUNCULACEiE. 



Herbs, or sometimes sli^'litly woody plants, with a colorless juice, sharp or acrid to the 

 taste. Parts of the flower all separate and distinct, and inserted on the receptacle. Petals 

 often wanting or of singular shapes. Stamens many, or at least more than 12. Pistils 

 many, or more than one (e.xcept in Larkspur, Baneberry, and Bugbane), and entirely 

 separate, except in Fennel-flower, in fruit becoming akenes or pods, or sometimes berries. 

 The leaves are generally compound, or much cut or parted, and without stipules. 



237. Flower of Peimsylvanian Aitemony. 233. Half a flower of a Crowfoot, magnified 239. A petal, eliowing lis litlle scale 240. Poa 

 of Marsh Marigold, opening. 241. A pistil of Anemony, magnified, the ovary cnt lhroH£(h to show the ovule in it 242 Akene of Crow- 

 foot, enlarged. 243. Same, cut through to show the seed in it. 244 Enlarged cross-section of the sepals of Virgin's-Bower No. 1, iu th« 

 bud. 915, Same of Virgin's-Bower No 3 246. Akene and feathery tail or style of Viigin'a-Bower No 1 



The genera are numerous. Tlie following table or key leads to the name of each. 



Climbing plants, with opposite, generally compouncl leaves, no real petals, the edges of 



the sepals turned inwards in the bud, ( Clematis) ViRGIN's-BoWEB 

 Not climbing: leaves all alternate except in Anemony? sepals overlapping in the bud. 

 '^'Stils many or several, one-seeded, becoming akenes in fruit. 

 Petals none: but the sepals colored like petals. 



Three leaves under the flower exactly imitating a calyx (Hepdtica) Hepatica 



