236 POLYANDKIA POLYGYNIA. [CL. XIII. 



Into a round head. Styles terminal, much longer than the 

 germens ; stigmas simple. Seeds numerous, egg-shaped, com- 

 pressed, tipped with the permanent styles, converted into 

 feathery tails. Name, from clema, a vine shoot. 272. 



1. C. Vitdlba. Common Traveller's Joy. Leaves pinnate, with 

 heart-shaped leaflets ; leaf-stalks twining ; panicles forked, not 

 longer than the leaves. Stems woody, angular, climbing : pani- 

 cles 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. Ger- 

 mens 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 thallo, 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 tern ate, with wedge- 

 shaped leaflets : flowers drooping : petals four, whitish, acute. Pe- 

 rennial : 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, pen- 

 dulous. Eoot creeping : stem from six to eighteen inches high, 



somewhat angular : leaflets generally wedge-shaped : panicles com- 

 pound, 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, par- 

 ticularly abundant in all the sandy maritime pastures of the Hebrides. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 11. Eng. Fl. 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.fldvum. Common Meadow-rue. Leaves twice pinnate, with 

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

 bose ; 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. Pe- 

 rennial : 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 ; 



