CLEMATIS. THALICTRUM. 3 



small, tubular, with a long claw, 2-lipped, inner lip very 

 short. Follicles many, stalked.^ 



10. HELLEBORUS. Cal. of 5 petaloid persistent sepals. Pet. 

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



1 1. AQUILEGIA. Cal. of 5 petaloid deciduous sepals. Pet. 5, 

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



12. DELPHINIUM. Cal. of 5 petaloid 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 5 petaloid sepals, upper one helmet- 

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

 in the helmet-shaped sepal. Follicles 3 5. 



** Anthers introrse. (Stam. arising from a glandular disk.} 

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



14. ACT^A. Cal. of 4 petaloid deciduous sepals. Pet. 4. 

 Carp. 1, baccate, indehiscent, many-seeded. 



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

 Follicles 2 5, many-seeded, bursting inwards, crowned with 

 the bilaminated stigmas. 



Tribe I. Clematidea. 



1. CLEMATIS Linn. Traveller's Joy. 



1. C. Vitalba (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. KB. 612. R. iv. 64. St. 

 woody, angular, branched. Petioles acting as tendrils. Hedges 

 and thickets on a calcareous soil. Sh. VI. E. S. 



Tribe II. Anemones. 



2. THALICTRUM Linn. Meadow-Rue. 



L T. alpinum (L.); st. perfectly simple and nearly leafless, 

 cluster terminal simple, fruitstalks reflexed, carp, shortly stalked 

 tipped with the hooked style. E.B. 262. R. hi. 26. St. 36 in. 

 high, quite smooth. L. mostly radical, upon long stalks, twice 

 ternate. Higher parts of mountains. P. VI. VII. 



2. T. minus (L.); st. zigzag striated branched leafless but 

 sheathed at the base, stip. with inflexed auricles, 1. 2 3-pinnate, 

 Its. ternate 3-cleft glaucous, petioles with angular ascending 



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