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POPULAR FLOKA. 



I. Polypetaloiis Division. 



1. CROWrOOT FAMILY. Order EANUNCULACEiE. 



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. 



237. Flower of Pennsylvanian Ariemony. 238. Holf ft flower of a Crowfoot, magnified 239. A petal, showing its till le scale y40. Poo 

 of Marsh-Marigold, opening. 241. A pistil of Aneinony, magnified, the ovary citt Ihrou^ll to show llie ovule in it 242 Akene of Crow- 

 foot, e-i!arged. 243. Kame, cut through to show the seed in it. 244 Enlarged cross-section of tlie sepals of Virgin's-Bower No. 1, in tile 

 bud. 315. Same of Virgin's. Bower No 3 246. Akene and feathery tail orstyle of Virgin's-Eower Ko 1 



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 in the bud, (Clematis) ViRGiN's-BowER. 

 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, (Hepatica) Hepatica 



