CL. XIII.] POLYANDRIA PENTAGYXIA. 233 



p. 26. The If. surrejanum, Eng. Bot. pi. 2207, Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 

 25, is a monstrous variety of this plant, with lance-shaped petals. 



811, 



4. H.poUfolium. 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 Newton Abbot in Devonshire. Eng. Bot. 

 pi. 1322. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 27. 812. 



PENTAGYNIA. 



9. P^EO'NIA. PJEONY. 



Calyx inferior, of five roundish, reflected, unequal, perma- 

 nent 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. Ger- 

 mens egg-shaped, sessile, downy. Styles none ; stigmas oblong, 

 curved, compressed, obtuse. Follicles oblong, leathery. Seeds 

 numerous, oval, arranged along the edges of the follicle. 

 Named in honour of the physician Paeon. 266. 



1. P. corattina. Entire-leaved Pceony. 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 crim- 

 son petals. Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows on islands 

 in the Severn, but is not truly wild. Eng. Bot. vol. xxii. pi. 1513. 

 Eng. FL 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 numerous, 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, reflected. Follicles oblong, 

 one-valved. Seeds numerous, angular, rough, arranged along 

 the edges of the follicle. Name, from delphin, a dolphin. 



267. 



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



leaf; stem undivided. 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 be- 

 hind. The juice of the petals is said to make a good blue ink. An- 



