Tall herbfields grow on well-developed humus soils, dominated by species of Compositae, Cyperaceae, Gramineae, Juncaceae, Ranunculaceae, and Umbelliferae. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Alps montane grasslands] Reference
In gardens two or three Ranunculaceae, Jasminum, pinks, sweet-williams, marigolds, stocks, and wall-flowers, are common, with a broad-leaved species of flag, the flowers of which I have not seen. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Clematis is a member of the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family. From Wordnik.com. [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference
A member of the Ranunculaceae family, clematis is related to anemone (anemones), ranunculus. From Wordnik.com. [Drupal] Reference
Trollius europaeus L. (Ranunculaceae) inferred from amplified fragment length polymorphism markers. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The most abundant families are: Asteraceae (47%), Poaceae (38%), Rosaceae (20%), Brassicaceae (31%) and Ranunculaceae (20%). From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh forest steppe] Reference
Thus in the Ranunculaceae we find the conspicuous part of the flower to be the petals in Ranunculus, the sepals in Helleborus. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
In its earlier stages the number of these modified leaves is indefinite, as in many Ranunculaceae; and the axis itself is not greatly shortened, as in Myosurus. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
They have calyx and corolla both, and the corolla has separate petals, see; and the Ranunculaceae have the petals and sepals deciduous, and the leaves generally cut, as you see these are. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that the buttercup belongs to the Family Ranunculaceae, with petals free and definite, stamens hypogynous and indefinite, pistil apocarpous. From Wordnik.com. [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference
Anonaceae or custard-apple tribe, which are certainly an advance from the Ranunculaceae; yet in the genus Polyalthea the fruit consists of a number of separate carpels, each borne on a long stalk, as if reverting to the primitive stalked carpellary leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
I see Aug. Hilaire uses a multiplicity of parts -- several circles of stamens, etc. -- as evidence of the highness of the Ranunculaceae; now Owen has truly, as I believe, used the same argument to show the lowness of some animals, and has established the proposition, that the fewer the number of any organ, as legs or wings or teeth, by which the same end is gained, the higher the animal. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Ranunculaceae.) (the Clematis-like plant told me by Oliver), to try and propagate me a plant at once. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Ranunculaceae, evidence of highness in. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Ranunculaceae family, also known as the. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Ranunculaceae. From Wordnik.com. [How an Evolutionary Garden Grows] Reference
Ranunculaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference
Family: Ranunculaceae Genus: Adonis. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
Crowfoots -- Ranunculaceae. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
Ranunculaceae, 4 Loranthaceae, 2. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
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