POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Caltha. 
branches oval-spear-shaped, omnes the stem, solitary, with 3 
— clefts at the end tinged w tple.  Floral-leaf oval. 
ar-shaped, entire, solitary, at ie ase of each fruit-stalk, 
‘lged with purple. Mr. Woopwarp. F/oqwers numerous, some- 
what globular, green, sometimes tinged with purple at the edges. 
Stem sot a yard hi 
igh. 
ars-foot. Setterwort. Oxheel. Stinking rebct Mea. - 
Cherry-hint 
dowis shady places, and h ‘ Ty » Fulbourn, 
Triplow, Cambridgeshire. Downs near. ai Sussex. 
Woods betw: 
een Gounsbery and Blackwell, Somersetshire. [ Bath 
ear Bungay, - Mr. Woopwarp. . Woods in 'Tort- 
Hills, a 
woes Park, Geecweatie. Mr. Baxer. Rockingham F. orest, 
Northamptonshire, P. April.* 
common. Mr. Pirr.] 
CALTHA. Cul. none: petals 5: nectaries none : 
caps. several : many- seeded. . 
“E. bot. 506—Kniph. 7—-Munt. pan 436. 129=CurtoFl, dan: 
668-Marth. 846~-Clus. ii. 114, 4—Dod, 598. 1-Lob.obs: 
323, 2. and ic. 1. 594. 1—Ger. em. 817. 1 -Trag. T42- 
¥. B. iii. 470—Lonic. i. 88. 3—Park. 1213. 1-Ger, 670, 
2 and bo ali: : 
Caps. from 4 to Mr. Houerear. pets ki dney- 
shaped, entire, aba MA regularly toothed. . Petals yellow, 
from 5 to7. Stamens in 2 rows, inner row wi ith broad anthers, 
outer row twice Gb tongs club-shaped, with the anthers com- 
Var. 2. Blossoms double. 
Park. 1213, 2—Clus. ti. 114. 2-Ger. em: 818. 3-Ger. 681: 3. 
pate Pes be Meadow-bouts. Moist meadows. Banks 
of rivers and pools, common. P, April, May.t 
SAGITTA’RIA. Stam. and pist. in different flow- 
ers on the same plant: ca/. 3 leaves : sages 
3 petals. 
beigad ai leaves are frequently given to children to destroy worms, 
but ‘Gay st be used s eb , being violent in their operation ; and in-. 
spar 
Stances Ae a at fatal effects are\ recorded. country people put the 
root into setons made through h the dewlaps of oxen. A decoction of 1 or 
2 — either of this, or of the preceding species, is a sharp purge. 
The flowers gathered before they expand, and preserved in salted 
ae 
s such an inflammation that they generally die. 
U pon May-day the paced people strew the flowers before their doors. 
> palus’ tris. 
