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minute ; carpels numerous, forming a lengthened spike. (Name 

 Greek for a mouse's tail.) 



Carpels many-seedea 



7. Trollius (Globe-flower). Sepals about 15, resembling 

 petals ; petals 5 or more, small, narrow, flat. (Name said to be 

 derived from an old German word, signifying a globe.) 



8. Caltha (Marsh Marigold). Sepals 5, resembling petals ; 

 no true petals. (Name from the Greek, calathus, a cup.) 



9. Helleborus (Hellebore). Sepals 5, petal-like, persistent ; 

 petals small, tubular ; carpels 3-10. (Name from the Greek, 

 helein, to injure, and bora, food.) 



10. Aquilegia (Columbine.) Sepals 5, petal-like, soon falling 

 off; petals 5, with curved, tubular spur. (Name from the Latin, 

 aquila, an eagle, to the claws of which its nectaries bear a fancied 

 resemblance.) 



11. Delphinium (Larkspur). Sepals 5, petal-like, soon falling 

 off ; the upper one helmet-shaped, with a long spur at the base ; 

 petals 2, concealed within the spur of the sepal ; carpels 1-5. 

 (Name from delphin, a dolphin, to which animal the upper sepal 

 bears a fancied resemblance.) 



12. Aconitum (Monk's-hood). Sepals 5, petal-like, the upper 

 one helmet-shaped, but not spurred ; petals 2, forming a spur 

 which is concealed beneath the helmet-shaped sepal ; carpels 

 3-5. (Name of uncertain origin.) 



13. Act.ea (Bane-berry). Sepals 4, petal-like, soon falling 

 off ; petals 4 ; fruit a many-seeded berry. (Name from the 

 Greek, acte, the elder, from the similarity of the leaves of the two 

 plants.) 



14. P^onia (Peony). Sepals 5, not falling off ; petals 5-10 ; 

 carpels 2-5. (Name from Pceon, a Greek physician, who is said 

 to have cured wounds with it.) 



1. Clematis 



1. C. vitalba (Traveller's Joy). The only British species. A 

 hedge shrub, common where limestone or chalk enters largely 

 into the composition of the soil ; climbing other shrubs by the 

 help of its twisting leaf-stalks, its stout w r oody stem and young 

 branches often carrying it to a height of several yards. Well 

 distinguished in summer by its loose panicles of greenish white, 

 fragrant flowers, and in winter by its tufts of feathery seed- 

 vessels, popularly known by the name of " Old Man's Beard." 

 It received its name from " decking and adorning waies and 

 hedges where people travel." Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



