KANUNCULACE^. 3 



Leaves pinuate; leaflets ovate-lanceolate or subcordate (half 

 heart-shaped) incised;, toothed or entire^ on spiral footstalks, by 

 which the stem is supported. Flowers white, in axillary panicles. 

 Sepals hairy on the outside. 



In hedges, woods, and bushy places, on a calcareous or creta- 

 ceous soil, Peren. ; Aug.-Sept. 



Tribe II. RANUNCULE.E : The Eanunculus Tn^e.— Herbaceous 

 plants, with alternate or radical leaves, rarely ternate. Petals re- 

 gular, rarely none, imbricated. Carpels usually indefinite, one- 

 seeded, indeliiscent (not opening). 



SYNOPSIS OF THE GENEEA. 



Thaiicteum. — Stems branched, erect, leafy, often fistular, many-flowered. 



Anemone. — Stems shuple, 1-2-flowered. Leaves mostly radical. 



Adonis. — Stems branched, leafy. Leaves scattered, pinnate, with linear seg- 

 ments. 



Myosurus. — Leaves radical, linear. Peduncle rachcal, one-flowered. 



Eanhnctjius. — Herbaceous, or annual plants. Stems usuahy branched, with 

 many or several flowers. Petals usvially 5, with a basal pore, which is 

 covered by a scale. 



FiCAEiA.— Leaves simple, petiolate. Flowers sohtary, on radical peduncles. 



Thalictrum, Lin. — Herbaceous plants, with erect, branched, 

 often fistulous stems. Leaves alternate, 2-3-pinnate, petiolate ; 

 petiole usually enlarged at the base, and Avith adnate stipules. 

 Flowers in terminal panicles, often with abortive parts. Sepals 



4, rarely 5, coloured, caducous. Corolla none. Stamens longer 

 than the sepals. Carpels 4-10, on a narrow receptacle, with a 

 short persistent style. Seed suspended. 



T. alpinum, Lin. Alpine Meadow Rue. — E, B. 262. L. B. 



5. H. 2. 



A. 9. Counties, 20. Lat. 53-61°. Alt. 0-1300 yds. Tern. 46-34°. 



Boots fibrous, sometimes stoloniferous. Stem simple, 4-6 

 inches, naked or nearly so, quite smooth, with a terminal simple 

 cluster of flowers. Leaves 2-ternate or pinnate, on slender erect 

 petioles. Flowers small, on refleoced peduncles. Carpels pedi- 

 celled, and terminated by the curved stigma. 



Moist alpine pastures, Wales and Scotland. Per, ; May-June, 



T. minus. Stem zigzag, streaked, branched, solid, leafless 

 at the base ; stipules tvith inflexed auricles. Leaves 2-3-pinnate ; 

 leaflets ternate, 3-cleft, glaucous ; petioles with angular ascending 

 branches. Panicle leafless, with divaricate branches ; flowers droop- 



