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nectaries : the flower was supposed to hâve no calyx, 
and the sepals were called petals. There are nu- 
merous stamens, and about five or six pistils, each 
with several ovules arranged in a double row a long 
the inner edge. They become follicular seed ves- 
sels. The variable number of the pistils in this 
genus, as well as in Eranthis, and indeed, in several 
others, induced Linnæus to class them under poly- 
gynia, though they are not sufficiently numerous to 
warrant such an arrangement. 
