102 VASCULAR PLANTS. 



4. Aquilegia, Tournei 



Sepals 5, petaloid, equal. Petals 5, bilabia'e, 

 prolonged backward into a spur. Fruit 5 folli- 

 cles. 



U . flowers red, blue, yellow. 



5. Ranunculus, L. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5 or a multiple, with a scale 

 at the base. Ovaries oo, 1-ovulate. Fruit go 

 akenes. 



0. 71. flowers yellow, white. 



6. Myosurus, Dillen. 



Sepals 5, calcarate. Petals 5, on filiform 

 claws. Fruit oo akenes, crowded on an elonga- 

 ted, spike-like receptacle. 



. dwarf plants with radical leaves. 



7. Thalictrum, Tournef. 



Involucre G. Sepals 5 — 4, very caducous- 

 Petals 0. Ovaries go. 1-ovulate. Fruit capi- 

 tate, akenes. 



IX . leaves ternately compound. 



8. Anemone, Hall. 



Involucre 3-foliate. Sepals petaloid, 5 or a 

 multiple. Petals 0. Ovaries go, 1-ovulate. 

 Fruit akenes, capitate. 2C . 



