POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Thalictruni. 41 



fasc. 18. 6. Hook. Scot. 17 1. Winch Guide, v. 1. 52. FL Dan. 

 Ll\. DeCand.Syst.v.\.\75. 



T. minimum montanum atro-rubens, foliis splendentibus. Rati 

 Sijn. 204. Boerh. Ind. Alt. v. 1 . 44. M . 



T. montanum minimum prsecox, foliis splendentibus. Moris. 

 V. 3. 325. sect. 9. t.20.f. 14. 



In elevated moist alpine pastures. 



On most of the highest mountains in Wales and Scotland. Sent 

 from Durham by the Rev. Mr. Harriman. Mr. Winch mentions 

 it as growing " near Caldron Snout, by the path leading from 

 thence to Widdy Bank," in that county ; as also upon Cronkley 

 Fell. 



Perennial. June. 



Root of a few long cylindrical fibres. Herb quite smooth, from 3 

 to 6 inches high. Leaves chiefly radical, on long, slender, vp- 

 Yight footstalks, twice ternate, and somewhat pinnate, their little 

 wedge-shaped veiny leajlets convex, dark green, and shining 

 above ; glaucous and concave beneath. Stipulas oblong, mem- 

 branous, united to the base of the footstalks at each side. Fl. 

 drooping when fully expanded. Bracteas small, solitary under 

 each partial stalk. Pet. 4, whitish, acute. Stani.8 or 10, ca- 

 pillary. Anth. oblong, tawny. Germ, seldom more than 4. 

 Seeds smooth, and nearly even. 



Haller under his n. 1 140, T.Jcetidum, mentions this as a probable 

 variety of that species, found in Switzerland. But if he had seen 

 our plant, he could never have confounded it vi'ith any variety of 

 fcetidiun ; nor did the Swiss botanists, with whom I have com- 

 municated, ever meet with the alpinum. 



2. T. 7mnus. Lesser Meadow-rue. 



Leaves doubly pinnate ; leaflets ternate, three-cleft, glau- 

 cous on both sides. Flowers panicled, pendulous. Stem 

 zigzag. Stipulas rounded. 



T. minus. Linn. Sp. Pl.769. Willd.v. 2. 1297. Ft. Br. 584. Engl. 

 Bot. v.\.t.\\. Rail Syn. 203. Ger. Em. 125 1 ./. Hook. 

 Scot. 172. DeCand. Syst.v. 1. 178. Dod. Pempt.oS.f. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 732. Jacq.Justr.t. 4\9. 



T.n. 1139. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 57. 



T. Cordi tenuifolium. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 56. f. 



(3. T. montanum minus, foliis latioribus. Raii Syn. 204. 



In chalky pastures, especially such as are rather mountainous ; or 

 in shell sand on the sea coast. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root creeping. Stem from 4 to 1 2 inches high, branched, leafy, 

 glaucous, smooth, somewhat angular, more or less zigzag in the 

 lower part, often remarkably so. Xeares doubly pinnate, then ter- 

 nate 5 lea flets various in figure and size ; broadly heart-shaped, as 



