4 EANUNCULACE^E. 



sistent; petals small, tubular'; carpels 3 10. (Name 

 from the Greek, helein, to injure, and bdra, food.) 



10. AQUIL^GIA (Columbine). Sepals 5, petal-like, 

 soon falling off ; petals 5, tubular, gaping upwards, and 

 terminating below in a curved, horn-shaped spur ; car- 

 pels 5. (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 4, the two upper on long 

 stalks, and concealed in the spurred sepal ; carpel 3 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 ; nectaries 

 2, stalked, tubular at the extremity, and concealed 

 beneath the helmet-shaped sepal ; carpels 3 -5. (Name 

 of uncertain origin. ) 



13. ACT^A (Bane-berry). Sepals 4, 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.EONIA (Peony). Sepals 5, unequal; petals 

 5 10 ; carpels 2 5, with fleshy stigmas formed of 

 two plates. (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 ; well distinguished in summer by its numerous 

 greenish-white flowers, and in autumn and winter ren- 

 dered yet more conspicuous by its tufts of feathered 

 seed-vessels, popularly known by the name of " Old 

 Man's Beard." It received its name from "decking and 



