LXXXII.— FURTHER ANALYTICAL DRAWINGS 
OF THE BUTTERCUP FAMILY. 
{Ranunculacea. ) 
T he Tribe Hellebore^e of the Family Ranunculacea^ in which the fruit is a 
collection of many-seeded and dehiscent follicles, was analysed on Plate 
LXXlll. Here we deal with nine representatives of the Tribe Anemonea, in which 
the fruit consists of one-seeded, indehiscent achenes. One of the species included 
here, the Mousetail {Myosurus minimus Linn^), has, on account of its minuteness, not 
been figured on a separate Plate. 
All these species agree also in having polysymmetric flowers and extrorse 
anthers : Clematis alone among them has valvate sepals, those of the other types 
being imbricate ; and Ranunculus alone has an erect ovule, those of the others being 
pendulous. 
The genus Anemone consists of herbaceous perennials, characterised by the 
three-leaved involucre on the peduncle of the one-flowered scape ; the numerous, 
imbricate, petaloid sepals ; the absence of distinct petals ; and the numerous carpels, 
on a short receptacle, tipped with persistent styles. 
The first line of figures represents the Pasque-flower [Anemone Pulsatilla Linn6), 
Fig. I being a whole flower in longitudinal section ; Fig. 2, the gynaeceum, showing 
the persistent styles which in this species elongate into feathery awns just as in 
Clematis ; Fig. 3, a stamen ; and Fig. 4, three ripe awned achenes on the floral 
receptacle. 
The two figures in the second line show the under surface of the flower, and 
the fruit of the Wood Anemone [Anemone nemorosa Linne), the latter having its 
constituent achenes furnished with a keel or sharp edge but with no awns. 
The third line of figures represents the somewhat exceptional genus Clematis^ of 
which our only British species is this C. Vitalba Linne, variously known as 
Traveller’s Joy, Old Man’s Beard, or Virgin’s Bower. The genus consists of 
perennial woody plants, climbing by twisting their leaf-stalks round a support, with 
leaves in opposite pairs and pinnately compound, valvate sepals, no petals, and long 
feathery persistent styles. The first figure is a flower ; the second, the same in 
section, somewhat enlarged ; the third, a stamen ; the fourth, the gynaeceum ; and 
the fifth, a detached ripe carpel. 
Small though it is, the Mousetail [Myosurus minimus Linn6), represented by the 
fourth row of figures, has many points of structural interest. Its genus comprises 
some five species of little annual plants, natives of Temperate latitudes both north 
and south, with simple, narrow, radical leaves and numerous one-flowered scapes. 
The remarkable little flowers have generally five spreading green sepals, each with a 
slender spur at its base pressed against the flower-stalk ; five erect petals, greenish- 
yellow, with a relatively long tubular nectariferous claw and a shorter strap-shaped 
