. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. Ordkr 1.âthe crowfoots. 147. 8. HEPAT'IOA. Noble Liverwort. Calyx (generally called an involucre) of 3 entire, ovate, green sepals (or bracts), situated a very little below tbe corolla. Corolla of 5-9 petals, arranged in 2 or three rows. Achenia without tails.âU Pretty little plants blossoming , in early spring. Leaves all radical, thick, 3-lobed, green through the winter. Flowers numerous, one on each scape, blue, roseate, or white. Mff. Sn. Flower and leaf of H.
. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. Ordkr 1.âthe crowfoots. 147. 8. HEPAT'IOA. Noble Liverwort. Calyx (generally called an involucre) of 3 entire, ovate, green sepals (or bracts), situated a very little below tbe corolla. Corolla of 5-9 petals, arranged in 2 or three rows. Achenia without tails.âU Pretty little plants blossoming , in early spring. Leaves all radical, thick, 3-lobed, green through the winter. Flowers numerous, one on each scape, blue, roseate, or white. Mff. Sn. Flower and leaf of H. triloba.' 1 H. tril'oba. Leaf-lobes and sepals obtase. Scapes hairy, several iuohes high. 2 H. acutil'oba. Leaf-lobes and sepals acute. Fls. and scapes lilie Ibe other. 4. EANUN'CULUS. Crowfoot. Buttercups. Calyx of 5 ovate sepals. Corolla of 5 roundish, shining petals, ea^h with a honeyed scale or pore at the base inside. Stamens 00. Aclienia numerous, flattened, crowded in a roundish or oblong head.âA large genus of herbs mostly perennial (2f) and with yellow flowers. Leaves di- vided or entire. Juice very acrid. § Petals yellow. Seeds (carpels) rough with prickles. Fls. small. , 3 § Petals yellow. Seeds smooth and even § Petals white (claws yellow). wrinkled crosswise . a Leaves all undivided. Plants growing in wet places 5-8 a Leaves more or less divided, not growing under water b a Leaves in fine, thread-like divisions, growing under .8, i b Jioot leaves neither divided nor cleft, merely crenate 9, 10 b Lower leaves 3-cleft but not divided to the base. Height 11-18 b Leaves all ternately divided and much c Sepals reflexed in fiower. Plants erect 14,15 c Sepals spreading in flower, shorter than the petals 16-18 1 R. mnrioa'tus. Bough-fruited G. Plant smooth. Seeds with large, stout, hooked beaks. Sepals spreading. Leaves 8-lobed and cleft. South. 2 R. parviflo'ms. SmaW-flowered C. Plant hairy. Seeds with a very short be
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