FURTHER ANALYTICAL DRAWINGS OF THE 
BUTTERCUP FAMILY— continued. 
blade ; five stamens, maturing before the stigmas ; and a slender tapering receptacle 
elongating to one to three inches and thickly set with small keeled and beaked 
carpels. This structure naturally suggested Dodoens’s name Myosurus, from the 
Greek mus^ mouse, and ovpd, oura, tall, which has been translated into the French 
Queue de Souris, the German Mauseschwanz, and our own Mousetail. Parkinson says 
that it was called 
“ of some Bloodstrange, but I thinlce corruptly from blood staying, for in that faculty it is predominant . . . and the Country 
people in some places of this land, apply it not only to those that bleede at the nose, by bruising the leaves and putting it up 
therein, but also to stay the much bleeding of wounds." 
Fig. I represents the whole plant, natural size ; Fig. 2, a flower enlarged ; 
Fig. 3, one in longitudinal section ; Fig. 4, a petal ; Fig. 5, the gynaeceum ; and 
Fig. 6, one achene in section showing the pendulous albuminous seed. 
The four following rows of flgures are devoted to species of Ranunculus. The 
flrst of these — the fifth row, that is, on the Plate — represents the Water Crowfoot 
{Ranunculus floribundus Babington), Fig. i being a flower seen from above ; Fig. 2, a 
stamen ; Fig. 3, a petal ; Fig. 4, the stamens collectively ; Fig. 5, an unripe fruit ; 
and Fig. 6, an achene. 
The sixth row on the Plate represents Ranunculus Ficaria Linne, the Lesser 
Celandine, Fig. i being a flower seen from above ; Fig. 2, a flower in longitudinal 
section ; Fig. 3, one of the characteristic sepals ; Fig. 4, a petal with its honey gland ; 
Fig. 5, a stamen ; Fig. 6, the gymeceum or unripe fruit ; and Fig. 7, a single 
isolated achene. 
The seventh row shows the Greater Spearwort {Ranunculus Lingua Linne). 
Fig. I is the flower seen from above, of natural size ; Fig. 2, the calyx ; Fig. 3, a 
portion of the floral receptacle in section, with stamens ; Fig. 4, an unripe fruit ; 
and Fig. 5, an achene. 
The eighth row represents Goldilocks {Ranunculus auricomus Linne), Fig. i 
being a flower, characteristically defective in its petals ; Fig. 2, the essential organs ; 
Fig. 3, an achene ; Fig. 4, the same enlarged ; and Fig. 5, the same in longitudinal 
section. 
The last row of figures on this Plate at once suggests the contrast between the 
other insect-pollinated forms and the mainly anemophilous Meadow-rue {Thalictrum 
flavum Linne). A glance at the first figure in this row, with its prominent stamens on 
filaments considerably longer than the perianth-leaves, tells this story. Fig. 2 is the 
gynaeceum ; Fig. 3, a carpel ; Fig. 4, the same in longitudinal section, showing the 
pendulous albuminous seed ; and Fig. 5, a seed. 
