236 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. [cL. XIII. 



around head. Styles terminal, much longer than the germens; 

 stigmas simple. Seeds numerous, egg-shaped, compressed, tipped 

 with the t permanent styles, converted into feathery tails. Name, 

 from clema, a vine shoot. 272. 



1. C. Vitdlba. Common Traveller'* Joy. Leaves pinnate, with heart- 

 shaped leaflets ; leaf-stalks twining ; panicles forked, not longer than 



the leaves. Stems woody, angular, climbing : panicles axillar and 



terminal, many-flowered : flowers white, scented : petals four, externally 

 downy : seeds with a long, feathery, and silky tail. A shrub : flowers in 

 July : grows in hedges: common in England; rare in Scotland. Eng. 

 Bot. vol. ix. pi. 612. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 39. 822. 



16. THALI'CTRUM. MEADOW-RUE. 



Calyx none. Petals four or five, inferior, roundish, obtuse, 

 deciduous. Filaments numerous, hair-like, somewhat enlarged at 

 the upper part; anthers terminal, oblong, drooping. iGermens 

 several, superior, egg-shaped, striated. Styles none ; stigmas egg- 

 shaped, downy. Seeds as many as the germens, egg-shaped, 

 furrowed or winged, without terminal appendage. Named from 

 t hallo, to be green. 273. 



1. Th. alpinum. Alpine Meadow-rue, Stem unbranched, almost 



naked, with a simple, terminal cluster. Stem from three to six inches 



high : leaves chiefly radical, twice ternate, with wedge-shaped leaflets : 

 flowers drooping: petals four, whitish, acute. Perennial: flowers in 

 June: grows on high mountains in Scotland, Wales, and the north of 

 England : frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. iv. pi. 262. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. 

 p. 40. 823. 



2. Th. minus. Less Meadow-rue. Leaves thrice pinnate, with three- 

 cleft leaflets, glaucous on both sides; flowers panicled, pendulous. 



Root creeping: stem from six to eighteen inches high, somewhat an- 

 gular: leaflets generally wedge-shaped : panicles compound, spreading, 

 with a few ternate leaves at the base: bracteas small, lance-shaped: 

 petals four, pale-purple, with whitish edges. Perennial : flowers in 

 June and July : grows in dry pastures, particularly abundant in all the 

 sandy maritime pastures of the Hebrides. Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 11. Eng. 

 Fi. vol. iii. p. 41. A large variety is the Th. mdjus, Greater Meadow- 

 rue, of many botanists. Eng. Bot. vol. ix. pi. 611. Eng. FL vol. iii. 

 p. 172. 824. 



3. Th. fidvum. Common Meadow-rue. Leaves twice pinnate, with 

 wedge-shaped, three-cleft leaflets; panicle compound, close, corymbose; 



flowers erect. Root fibrous: stem three or four feet high, branched, 



hollow, deeply furrowed and angular: panicle dense, of very numerous 

 erect flowers : petals four, cream-coloured. Perennial : flowers in June 

 and July: grows in wet meadows, and near rivers and ditches: rare in 

 Scotland. Eng. Bot. vol. vi. pi. 367. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 42. 825. 



17. ADO'NIS. ADONIS. 



Calyx inferior, of five converging, obtuse, deciduous leaves. 

 Petals from five to fifteen, oblong, obtuse, shining, without necta- 

 ries on the claws. Filaments numerous, awl-shaped, very short ; 



