Ranunculaceae

Tall herbfields grow on well-developed humus soils, dominated by species of Compositae, Cyperaceae, Gramineae, Juncaceae, Ranunculaceae, and Umbelliferae.

Australian Alps montane grasslands 2008

ANEMONE, or WIND-FLOWER (from the Gr. [Greek: anemos], wind), a genus of the buttercup order (Ranunculaceae), containing about ninety species in the north and south temperate zones.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

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.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Cattle will not eat the acrid, caustic plant -- a sufficient reason for most members of the _Ranunculaceae_ to stoop to the low trick of secreting poisonous or bitter juices.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

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.

The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

The doctor turned upon his heels, and went off with his ladies talking in a loud voice about botany, the words _Ranunculaceae_ and

First in the Field A Story of New South Wales George Manville Fenn 1870

Thus in the Ranunculaceae we find the conspicuous part of the flower to be the petals in Ranunculus, the sepals in Helleborus,

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

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.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

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.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Clematis was rare, and other _Ranunculaceae_ still more so.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864