112 POPULAR FLORA. 
I. Polypetalous Division. 
1. CROWFOOT FAMILY. Order RANUNCULACEZ. 
Herbs, or sometimes slightly 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 (except 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. 
240 241 244 
237. Flower of Penusylvanian Anemony. 288. Half a flower of a Crowfoot, magnified. 239. A petal, showing its little scale 240. Pod 
of Marsh-Marigold, opening. 241, A pistil of Anemony, magnified, the ovary cut through to show the ovule in it. 242 Akene of Craw- 
foot, enlarged. 243. Same, cut throug! to show the seed in it. 244. Enlarged cross-section of the sepals of Virgin’s-Bower No. }, iu the 
bud. 245, Same of Virgin’s-Bower No. 3. 246. Akene aud feathery tail or style of Virgin’s-Bower No. lL. 
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The genera are numerous. The following table or key leads to the name of each. 
Climbing plants, with opposite, generally compound leaves, no real petals, the edges of 
the sepals turned inwards inthe bud, (Clématis) Vircin's-BowER. 
Not climbing: leaves all alternate except in Anemony: sepals overlapping in the bud. 
’  Pistils 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) Heparica. 
