Class XIII. POLYANDRIA. 459 
1224. Xylopia. Cal. 3-5.1obed. Petals 6 ; the exterior largest. Stamens usually inserted in a globose recep- 
tacle. Berries 2-15, on short stalks, compressed, frequently dry and opening. Seeds shining. 
1225. Hepatica. Invol. 3-leaved, 1-flowered, resembling a calyx, entire. Sepals petaloid, 6-9, arranged in 2 
or 3 rows. Ovaries many. Grains without an awn. 
1226. Anemone. Invol. 3-leaved, distant from the flower, cut. Sepals 5-15, petaloid. Petals O. 
1227. Clematis. Invol. O, or like a calyx under the flower. Sepals 4-8, colored. Petals O, or shorter than 
the sepals. Grains terminating in a feathery awn. 
1228. Naravelia. Petals 6-12, longer than calyx. Grains seated on a thick hollow stalk. 
1229. Thalictrum. Invol. O. Petals O. Grains dry, not awned, sometimes stalked, sometimes with a 
longitudinal furrow. 
12j0. Adonis. Sepals 5, appressed. Petals 5-15, with a naked claw. Grains many, 1-seeded, spiked, ovate, 
pointed with the persistent hardened style. 
1231. Knowltonia. Sepals 5. Petals 5-15, with a naked claw. Ovaries upon a globose receptacle. Grains 
1-seeded, berried, with a deciduous style. 
1232. Ficaria. Sepals 3, deciduous. Petals 9, with a honey-pore at base. Grains obtuse. 
1233. Ranunculus. Sepals 5, not deciduous. Petals 5, rarely 10, with a honey-scale at base. Grains 
pointed. 
1234. Trollius. Sepals colored, 5-10-15, deciduous, petaloid. Capsules many, subcylindrical, many-seeded. 
1235. Isopyrum. Sepals 5, deciduous. Petals 5, equal, tubular, 2-lipped. Ovaries 2-20. Capsules com- 
pres-sed, membranous, many-seeded. Seeds minute, dotted. 
1236. Eranthis. Involucre under the flower, cut into many divisions. Sepals 5-8, colored, oblong, deciduous. 
Petals 6-8, tubular. Capsules stalked. Seeds globose. 
1237. Hellebarus. Sepals 5, persistent, roundish, obtuse, large, usually green. Petals 8-10, tubular, nectari- 
ferous. Stigmas orbicular. Capsules coriaceous. 
1238. Coptis. Sepals 5-6, colored, petaloid, deciduous. Petals small, cucullate. Stamens 20-25. Caps. 6-10, 
on long stalks, membranous, 4-6-seeded. 
1239. Caltha. Sepals 5, colored, round. Petals O. Stamens many. Capsule spreading, l-ce!led, many, 
seeded. 
1240. Hydropeltis. Sepals 3-4. Petals 3-4. Ovaries 6-18. Seeds in a pendulous ovate globose capsule. 
1241. Hydrastis. Sepals 3, ovate. Petals O. Cariopsides berried, many in a head, terminated by the style, 
1-celled, 1-2-seeded. 
MONOGYNIA. 
7638 Pedunc. 1-fl. solitary. Stipules spiny, Leaves roundish obtuse smooth. Caps, oval 
7639 Pedunc. many-fl. Leaves obi. obt. emarginate downy beneath. Cor. campanulate 
7640 Pedunc. umbelled. Leaves clustered in parcels 
7641 Pedunc. 1-fl. solitary. Stipules spiny. Leaves roundish ovate acute smooth, Capsules oval 
7642 Leaves linear lanceolate dilated downwards obtuse at each end smooth. Fruit round torulose 
7643 Pedunc. racemose. Leaves linear 
7644 Pedunc. racemose. Leaves perennial oblong, Cal. and pedunc. downy, FL octandrous 
7645 Pedunc. many-fl. terminal. Leaves elliptical blunt smooth. Glands axillary. Fruit cylindrical torulose 
7646 Pedunc. many-fl. Leaves obi. lanceolate acute dotted with scales beneath 
7647 Pedunc. umbelled. Leaves persistent lanceolate downy beneath, Flowers octandrous 
7648 Leaves ovate-oblong acuminate veiny 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
them, and as the supply of capers is increased more vinegar is added. When the caper season closes, the 
casks are emptied, and the buds sorted according to their size and color, the smallest and greenest being 
reckoned the best, and put into small casks of fresh vinegar for commerce. They will in this state keep fit 
for use for five or six years. It is said to be a common practice to put filings of copper in the first pickle to 
save vinegar, and give the buds a green color. The best capers are called nonpareilles, and the second best 
capuciiies. (A'. Cours complet d'Agr. ; art. Caprier.) 
Most of the species are very shewy when in flower : C. cynophallophora has large petals, and stamens 
upwards of four inches long. Ripe cuttings of all the species grow readily in sand. 
1163. Marcgraavia. In memory of George Marcgraaf, of Leibstadt, author of a voyage to Brazil in 1648. A 
sub-parasitical creeping shrub : at first it is radicant like some ferns, but as it advances, the stem becomes 
shrubby, adhering still by its fibres to the trunk of some tree, to the top of which it frequently runs, at length 
dividing into several subdivided loose pendulous branches, commonly terminated by flowering umbels. It is 
frequent in the cool wooded mountains of Jamaica, and, according to Browne, appears in such various forms, 
that It has been mistaken for different plants in the different stages of its growth. It grows freely in British 
stoves, and cuttings root in sand under a glass. The genus is remarkable for the transformation of part of the 
bractes into fistular bodies^ resembling the pitchers of some other plants. 
