Thalictrum.] RANUNCULACEA (Harv.) 3 
terminal, and corymbose. The peduncles are often bracteate in the middle. The 
flowers are 14 inches in diameter and seemingly purple (or blue 2). A noble species, 
named in compliment to the late Lord Derby by whose collector it was first sent 
to oe It was, however, first found by Miss Owen, in the Zooloo Country, 
} in 1840. ' 
UL, THALICTRUM, Tour. 
Sepals 4~5, coloured, imbricate in the bud, caducous. Petals, none. 
Carpels 4-15, dry, one seeded, tipped with a short beak. DC. Prod. 1, 
p. 11. 
Herbaceous perennials, with annual, often hollow, erect, branching stems ; alter- 
nate, decompound leaves, and panicled flowers of small size ; the stamens con- 
spicuous, The species are numerous, dispersed throughout Europe, the temperate 
parts of Asia, North America, and on high mountains within the Tropics. Our 
only 8S. African species is also a native of a considerable portion of the Northern 
Temp. Zone. The generic name is derived from @aAAw, to flourish. 
1, T. minus (Linn.) ; glabrous or pubescent ; leaves 3—4-pinnate ; 
segments roundish or wedge shaped, variously cleft ; panicle diffuse, 
much branched ; anthers mucronate ; carpels 6-8, sessile, oval, strongly 
ribbed, tipped with the thickened style. DC. Prod. 1. p. 1 3. Eng. 
Bot. t. 11. 7. caffrum, E.& Z.! No.3. T. gracile, E. Mey ! in Herb. 
' Drege ! 
ore Kaffirland, Z. & Z./ Drege / Orange River, Burke / (Herb, T.C.D., Hook., 
nd. 
Stems 2-3 feet high, erect, leafy ; branches ending in nearly naked spread- 
g panicles of small, pale, purplish flowers. Stamens conspicuous, on hairlike fila- 
ments, with large, linear, yellow anthers. Leaves very compound ; leaflets glaucous 
on the under side. I cannot distinguish the Cape specimens from the glabrous and 
glaucous form of the common 7’. minus of Europe, Asia, and N. Africa. 
III, ANEMONE, Hall. 
_ Involucre, 2~3 leaved, remote from the flower. Sepals, 5~20, coloured, 
unbricate, deciduous. Petals none. Carpels very numerous, densely 
capitate, dry, one seeded, with (or without) feathery tails. DO. Prod. 1. 
f. 16: Nea 
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America ; a few gling into woods, pee et eony plains of the 
Moditenduant ies fewer are found in the Southern Hemisphere ; a few 
occur on the Andes, and in Southern Chile ; and one in Tasmania. The two Cape 
species belong to Decandolle’s section, “‘ Pulsatilloides,” characterise2 by very hairy 
carpels, with short, glabrous tails, numerous sepals and small involucres. The - 
generic name is derived from aveuos, the wind ; because the flowers are easily blown 
to pieces. : 
1, A. capensis (Linn.) ; stem short, densely leafy ; leaves bi-ternately | vd halt’ | 
cut, glabrescent, ne se stalked, wedge shaped, 3-lobed, or 3- Mn Be re. 
parted, deeply cleft ; petioles villous ; flower stalk 1-2 flowered, = 4/6 
villous below, woolly above the involucre ; sepals numerous, silky. 
DC. Prod. 1. p. 18. Bot. Mag. t. (be Pulsatilla Africana, B. & . 
No. 5. Atragene capensis, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 440. Andr. Rep. t. 9. 
Var. 8. tenuifolia ; leaves triternately cut, segments multi 
