CL. XIII.] POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 233 



Eng. Bot. pi. 2207. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 25, is a monstrous variety of this 

 plant, with lance-shaped petals. 811. 



4. H. polifolium. White Mountain Rock-rose. Stem shrubby, pro- 

 cumbent, with somewhat hairy stipules ; leaves oblong, revolute, white 

 beneath with starry^ hairs; calyx slightly hairy, its outer leaves fringed. 



Stems hoary, with close-pressed hairs : leaves convex and green 



above with starry hairs, beneath white and densely downy with similar 

 hairs : stipules narrow lance-shaped, acute, hairy : calyx with a few 

 hairs on the ribs : petals white, with yellow claws. A shrub : flowers in 

 June and July : grows on Brent Downs, Somersetshire, and near New- 

 ton Abbot in Devonshire. Eng. Bot. pi. 1322. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. 

 p. 27. 812. 



PENTAGYNIA. 



9. P^O'NIA. P*ONY. 



Calyx inferior, of five roundish, reflected, unequal, permanent 

 leaves. Petals five, roundish, spreading, larger than the calyx. 

 Filaments very numerous, hair-like, much shorter than the corolla ; 

 anthers oblong, four-cornered, four-celled. Germens egg-shaped, 

 sessile, downy. Styles none ; stigmas oblong, curved, compressed, 

 obtuse. Follicles oblong, leathery. Seeds numerous, oval, arranged 

 along the edges of the follicle. Earned in honour of the physician 

 Pceon. 266. 



1. P. corallina. Entire-leaved Pteony. Leaves twice ternate ; leaflets 



egg-shaped, undivided, smooth ; follicles downy, recurved. 'Root 



knobbed : stems simple, round, smooth, about two feet high : leaves 

 smooth : flowers about four inches broad, with crimson petals. Peren- 

 nial : flowers in May and June : grows on islands in the Severn, but is 

 not truly wild. Eng. Bot. vol. xxii. pi. 1513. Eng. Ft. vol. iii. p. 29. 



813. 



10. DELPHI'NIUM. LARKSPUR. 



Calyx none. Petals five, inferior, unequal, spreading; the upper 

 one extended into a long tubular spur; the rest oblong, with claws. 

 Nectary divided, of one or two sessile leaves, placed within the 

 petals, on the upper side, extended behind into a tube, which is 

 contained in the spur of the uppermost petal. Filaments nume- 

 rous, awl-shaped, dilated at the base, much shorter than the corolla ; 

 anthers roundish, small, erect. Germen superior, from one to five. 

 Styles terminal, shorter than the stamens ; stigmas simple, re- 

 flected. Follicles oblong, one-valved. Seeds numerous, angular, 

 rough, arranged along the edges of the follicle. Name, from del- 

 phin, a dolphin. 267. 



1. D. Consolida. Field Larkspur. Capsule single; nectary of one 



leaf; stem subdivided. Stem nearly two feet high, erect, leafy, 



branched : leaves sessile, divided to the base into three or five parts, each 

 cut into linear segments, often forked at the end: clusters terminal, loose, 

 few-flowered : petals deep-blue in front, pale behind. The juice of the 

 petals is said to make a good blue ink. Annual : flowers in June and 



