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POPULAR FLORA. 
I. Polypetalous Division. 
1. CROWFOOT FAMILY. Order RANUNCULACEiE. 
Herbs, or sometimes slightly woody plants, with a colorless juice, sharp or acrid to the 
taste. Parts of the flower all separate and distinct, and inserted on the receptacle. Petals 
often wanting or of singular shapes. Stamens many, or at least more than 12. Pistils 
many, or more than one (except in Larkspur, Baneberry, and Bugbane), and entirely 
separate, except in Fennel-flower, in fruit becoming akenes or pods, or sometimes berries. 
The leaves are generally compound, or much cut or parted, and without stipules. 
237. Flower of Pennsylvanian Anemony. 238. Half a flower of a Crowfoot, magnified. 239. A petal, showing ita little scale 240. Pod 
of Marsh Marigold, opening 241. A pistil of Anemony, magnified, the ovary cut through to show the ovule in it 242 A Irene of Crow- 
foot, enlarged 243. Same, cut through to show the seed in it. 244 Enlarged cross section of the sepals of Virgin ’B-Eower No. 1, in the 
bud. 245 Same of Virgin’s-Bower No 3 246. Akene and feathery tail or style of Virgin’s-Bower No 1. 
The genera are numerous. The following table or key leads to the name of each. 
Climbing plants, with opposite, generally compound leaves, no real petals, the edges of 
the sepals turned inwards in the bud, ( Clemntis) Virgin’s-Bower 
Not climbing: leaves all alternate except in Anemony: sepals overlapping in the bud. 
p 'Stils many or several, one-seeded, becoming akenes in fruit. 
Petals none: but the sepals colored like petals. 
Three leaves under the flower exactly imitating a calyx, ( Hepdtica ) Hepatic a 
