Pericarpium. Capsula, roundish, covered by the calyx. 

 Seeds numerous, roundish, small. 



N. B. The essential character of the genus consists in the 2 

 smaller and alternate leaves of the calyx. Some species have a 

 capsula of l cell and 3 valves, in others it has 5 or 10 cells, and 

 as many valves as there are cells. Linn. 



P.EONIA. 



Calyx. Periayithium, 5-leaved, small, permanent; leqfits 

 roundish, concave, reflex, unequal in size and situation. 



Corolla. Petals five, roundish, concave, narrow at the base, 

 spreading, very large. 



Stamina. Filaments numerous, (about three hundred) ca- 

 pillary, short. Anther* oblong, quadrangular, erect, 4- 

 celled, large. 



Pistilla. Germina 2, ovate, erect, tomentose. Styles none. 

 Stipnata compressed, oblong, blunt, coloured. 



Pericarpium. A double Capsula ovate, oblong, spreading, 

 and reflex, tomentose, celled, l-valved, opening longitudi- 

 nally inwards. 



Seeds several, oval, shining, coloured, fastened to the open- 

 ing suture. 

 N. B. The most natural number of the germina seems to 



be two, but they vary much in different, and even in the same 



species. They hardly ever amount to five. 



AQUILEGIA. 



Calyx. Periarithium none. 



Corolla. Petals 5, spear-egg-shaped, flat, expanding, equal. 

 Nectaria b, equal, alternating with the petals, horned, gra- 

 dually widening upwards, the mouth ascending obliquely 

 outwards, fixed to the receptaculum inwardly, extending be- 

 low into a long tapering tube, blunt at the end. 



Stamina. Filaments many, (30 to 40,) awl-shaped, the outes 



