CLEMATIS. THALICTRTni. O 



8. TROLLTTJS. Cal. of 5 or many petal-like deciduous sepals. 

 Pet. small, linear, flat, clawed. Follicles many, sessile, 



[9. CAMMARUM. Cal. of 5 8 petal-like deciduous sepals. 

 Pet. small, tubular, with a long claw, ^-lipped ; inner lip 

 very short. Follicles many, stalked.'] 



10. HELLEBORUS. Cal. of 5 petal-like persistent sepals. Pet. 

 small, tubular, 2-lipped, clawed. Follicles 3 10, sessile. 



11. AQUILEGIA. Cal. of 5 petal -like deciduous sepals. Pet. 5, 

 funnel-shaped, with a long horn-like spur. Follicles 5. 



** Flowers irregular. 



12. DELPHINIUM. Cal. of 5 petal -like deciduous sepals, upper 

 sep. with a long spur at its base. Pet. 4 ; 2 upper ones with 

 spurs included in the spurred sepal, or all combined into one 

 spurred petal. Follicles 1, 3, or 5. 



13. ACONITUM. Cal. of 6 petal-like sepals, upper sep. helmet- 

 shaped. Two upper pet. tubular, on long stalks, concealed in 

 the helmet-shaped sepal. Follicles 3 5. 



B. Anthers introrse. (Stam. arising from a glandular disk.) 



Tr. V. P^EONIE^E or spurious Ranunculaceae. 



14. ACT^A. Cal. of 4 petal-like deciduous sepals. Pet. 4, 

 very small. Carp. 1, baccate, not bursting, many-seeded. 



[15. P^EONIA. Cal. of 5 persistent sepals. Pet. 5 or more. 

 Follicles 2 5, many-seeded, bursting inwards.'] 



Tribe I. Clematidea. 



1. CLEM'ATIS Linn. Traveller's Joy. 



1. C. Vital' ba (L.) ; st. climbing, 1. pinnate, leaflets ovate 

 acuminate entire coarsely serrate or incise-lobate rounded or 

 cordate below, petioles twining, sep. oblong downy on both 

 sides, fr. with long feathery awns. E. B. 612. R. iv. 64. St. 

 woody, angular, branched, very long. Petioles acting as ten- 

 drils. Hedges and thickets on a calcareous soil. Sh. VI. E. 



Tribe II. Anemones. 



2. THALIC'TKUM Linn. Meadow-Eue. 



1. T. alpi'num (L.) ; st. perfectly simple and nearly leafless, 

 raceme terminal simple ; fruitstalks reflexed, carp, shortly stalked 



