ns POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA: Adonis. - 
3 feet high, cylindrical, scored; wee green, leafy, panicled, 
Branches always several from the same point, of different] esti 
sweet, pendent: Petals ds purplish green. Stam. 15 to 20. Ante 
thers yellow.  Pistils o 7. Seeds spear-sha aped, furrowed, 
acute. It may be diotingushed from the Th. minus by its al- 
ways sending ou or 3 branches from the same knot on the 
stem or larger owha, and by the leafits being dark green above 
and glaucous underneath; whilst in the minus the branches rise 
singly and the leabsn are of a lighter green gig and scarcely to 
be called glaucous underneath. This plant is also much more | 
branched and .one ae taller than the minus. er This 
species seems first to have been described by Crantz, in his Stirp. 
Austr. fasc. ii. p. 108, who particularly notices its differing from 
_ the Thalictr. minus in its branches growing 3 together, the . 
darker colour of its leaves, rg greyer green i their under sur- 
face, and their pellucid vein 
observes share that this plant approaches the . 
Thalictr. sibiricum, but omits to eerste the differences, whic 
are sufficiently obvious. In that the fruit is different; the stem’ — 
is green, not purplish, the leafits are finely serrated, and very 
‘much. smaller than even those of ie Th. minus. 
to 18, the anthers yellow, the bal from 5 to 4 
. Rosson, about 2 le fom Darling: 
ton, ina and ay hse situation! among bushes. He'says it fre- 
quently attains the height of 4 or 5 feet, and that he has since 
seen specimens which s were collected in Cumberland. ] Pee 
ADONIS. Cal. 5 leaves : petals 5 or more: nect. 
none: seeds naked. 
testiva’lis. A. Flowers with 5 petals: fruit egg-shaped. 
; Cam. epit. 648—Pet. 39. 8. Ee 
Only 1 or 2 flowers on a plant. Peta/s 5 or 6; longer and 
narrower in the A. autumnalis ; scarlet, 
[Corn fields on Salisbury plain, near the road from Ambres- 
bury to Everly. ] A. May. » Junes 
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autumna’lis. A. Petals about 8: fruit egg-cylindrical. | 
Curt. 135-Kniph. 5-Clus. i. 336. 1-Dod. 260. 3-E. bot. 
308-Lob. obs. 150, ic. i, 283. 2-Ger. em» 387-Gere 310 
1-Park. par. 291.5, 
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