1. EANUNCULACE^. 



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pound, cauline small or bract-like, or 0. Flowers greenish or yellowish, peduncles often 

 irregularly umbellate. Sowh Africa. 



6. ^Adonis. — Sepals 5-8, coloured, deciduous. Petals 5-16, often spotted at base, but with 

 no nectariferous hollow. Carpels numerous. Achenes in a head or spike ; style short, per- 

 sistent, straight or hooked. — Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves pinnatipartite, multifid, 

 segments narrow. Mowers solitary, yellow or red. llJurope, Asia. 



7. *Calliailtlieiiium. — Sepals 5, herbaceous, deciduaus. Petals 5-15, with a basal nectari- 

 ferous pit. Carpels numeracis. Achenes capitate; style short, persistent. Alpine, low 



Anemone Pulsatilla. Anemone Pi/lsatiHa. 

 Pistil (mag.). AndBOBCflum and pistil. 



Jinem^one Pulsatilla. Diagram. J nemone Pulsatilla, 

 Stamen (mag.'). 



Anemone Eepatica. 



Carpel entire and 



cut vertically (mag.). 



An£mone Pulsatilla. 

 Flovrec cut vertically (mag.). 



Anemone ffepjtica. 



Fruit and involucre 



(mag.;. 



Pasque flower. 

 (Anemone Pulsatilla.) 



Anemone nemorosa. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



Anemone Pulsatilla. 

 Ripe actiene cut vertically. 



