POLYAND. POLYGYN. 



Two to three feet high. Leaves biternate ; leaflets 3 5 iobed, radi- 

 cal ones on long footstalks, cauline ones sessile. Flowers large, 

 drooping, mostly purple. Exterior stam. imperfect j but not form- 

 ing a plaited lacerated membrane, as described and figured in E. B., 

 at least not in any specimens that I have examined. 



10. STRATIOTES. 



1. S. aloides (Water- soldier) leaves ensiform triangular aculeato- 

 serrate. E.B,t.379. 



HAB. Ditches and lakes. Duddingston Loch, Maugh. Loch of Clunie, 

 Rev. Mr. M' Ritchie. Forfar Loch, Mr. Arnott. Fl. July. I/. 



A most remarkable plant, with numerous radical leaves like those of 

 an Aloe, 6 inches long thrown up from creeping stolons, which 

 run deep into the niud. Scape 4 6 inches long, compressed, two- 

 edged. From the centre of a two-leaved compressed spatha arises 

 one white flower. Pet. large, handsome. Sometimes the flowers 

 are dioecious, and sometimes the stam. are on the same flower with 

 the 5- or 6-cleft styles. 



3. POLYGYNIA. 



11. ANEMONE. 



1. A nemorosa (Wood Anemone), leaves tcrnate lobed and cut, 

 involucre the same petiolate, stem single-flowered^ -capsules 

 without awns. Liglitf. p. 284. E. B. t. 355. 



HAB. Moist woods and pastures, and upon the high mountains. Fre- 

 quent on Ben Lomond. Fl. Apr. June. If. . 



Stem 4 8 inches high, simple. Flowers large, white, tinged with 

 purple on the outside. This is the only one of this beautiful genus 

 of which Scotland can boast , and two out of the four attributed to 

 England (A. apennina and ranunculoides) are but the outcasts of 

 gardens. 



12. CLEMATIS. 



1. Cl. Vitalla (Traveller's Joy), stem sarmentose, leaves pin- 

 nate, leaflets cordato-ovate inciso-lobate, petioles scandent, 

 peduncles rather shorter than the leaves. E. B. .612. 



HAB. Collington woods, Maugh. Near Callander, Mr. Arnott. FL 

 May, June. Tj . 



Stern many feet long, climbing. Petioles acting as tendrils. Flowers 

 greenish white, panicled. Capsules with long feathery tails, which 

 have a beautiful appearance in the winter. This plant is common 

 in the S. of Britain, especially in chalky soils : in the N. gradually 

 becoming scarcer. Are the plants truly wild in the places above- 

 mentioned ? 



13. THALICTRUM. 



1. Th. alpinum (alpine Meadow-Rue), stem simple nearly 

 leafless, raceme simple terminal, flowers drooping, segments 

 of the leaves glabrous. Light/, p. 286. E. B. t. 262. 



HAD. Pastures in the Highland mountains, plentiful. Fl. July. I/ . 



