172 POLYAND. POLYGYN. 



Radical leaves upon long footstalks, biternate, leaflets roundish, cre- 

 nate or lobed, dark green. Stam. 10 — 12. Germen 2 — 4. Flowers 

 few. 



2. Th. minus (lesser Meadoiu-Rite), leaves tripinnate, leaflets 

 trifid glaucousj flowers panicled drooping. Li^htf. p. 283. 

 E.B.t.U. 



Hab. Hilly pastures, especially in stony ground. Kil-chomin, in 

 Ila, and at Icolmkill, Light/. Pastures about Loch Rannoch, in 

 Perthshire, and many other places. Dr. Stuart. Links of Rattray, 

 Aberdeenshire, plentiful, Mr. Murray. N. coast of Sutherland 

 and Sandside, Caithness, Mr. Borrer and Hook. 



Stem about 1 foot high. Leaves small, glaucous, glabrous. Panicle 

 mvich branched. 



3. Th. majus {greater Meadow-Ruc), " leaves tripinnate, leaf- 

 lets lobed" (mostly trifid), " branches of the panicle subum- 

 bellate, flowers drooping," Sm. E. B. t. 611. 



Hab. Hills about N. Queensferry, Muugh. Fl. July. 2/. 



Twice or thrice the size of the former in all its parts. Leaves often 

 with 5 unequal lobes. I gathered this plant at Queensferry some 

 years ago, in company with my friend Mr. Manghan, and saw 

 many specimens which appeared to me to be intermediate between 

 it and Th. minus. It certainly affords no good specific character. 



4. Th. Jiavzim {common Mcadoiv-Rue), stem erect branched 

 furrowed, leaves bipinnate, leaflets wedge-shaped trifid, pani- 

 cle much branched subcorymbose, flowers erect. Light/'. 

 p. 284. E.B.t.'S67. 



Hab. Banks of rivers, but rare. At N. Queensferry, Dr. Parsons; 

 but Mr. Arnott suspects the Th. majus has been mistaken for it. 

 Banks of the Clyde, at Dalbeth and Bowling Bay^ Hupk. Dal- 

 dowie, and at Rutherglen bridge, Glasg., Dr. Brown. Carmyle 

 woods, on the banks of the Clyde, Mr. Murray. 



Two to three feet high. Flowers very yellow, from the numerous 



upright sfam. It varies in the breadth of the lobes of the leaves. 



14. ADONIS. 



1. A. aulitmnaUs {Corn Jdonis, or Pheasant' s-eye), petals 

 concavo-connivent scarcely longer than the glabrous cal., peri- 

 carps reticulate collected into an ovate head, stem branched. 

 £. J3./.308. 



Hab. Amongst corn, occasionally about Glasgow, Hopk. Fl. Sept. 

 Oct. 0. 



Eight to twelve inches high. Leaves thrice compound ; the segments 

 linear. Cor. of about 8, remarkably concave, bright scarlet petals, 

 which from their colour and globose form have given rise to the 

 French name " goutte de sang," and indeed to its classical generic 

 one, the ancients having supposed it to have sprung from the blood 

 of Adonis, 



15. RANUNCULUS. 



* Pericarps transversely wrinkled. Petals white ; claio yellow, with a 

 nectariferous pore. {Decand.) 



