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NATURAL niSTOBY OF PLANTS. 



L. Chrysogonum* has been distinguished generically from the other 

 species under the name of Bongardia? because its petals are smaller 

 and more like sepals than in Leontice proper ; while it may have 



from four to eight ovules. We only make this a 

 Leontice Leontopetaium. section apart; we follow the same course with L. 



thalictroides, 3 which was also formerly elevated to 

 generic rank, 4 because while its petals are thin, 

 as in Bongardia, its pericarp is early destroyed 

 above, only forming a very short sheath around 

 the base of the funicles of the seeds ; and the 

 seed-coats are more fleshy in texture. Thus 

 formed of four sections, 5 Leontice includes four or 

 five perennial herbaceous species, 6 with a tuberous 

 rhizome ; they are nearly all natives of Central 

 or Eastern Asia. One or two species of Leontice 

 proper are found in the east of Mediterranean 

 Europe, and L. thalictroides inhabits North 

 America. From the rhizome spring alternate 

 leaves, pinnatisect, or pinnately bi- or tri-sect. 

 The flowers 7 form ramified racemes on a 

 scape which is naked or bears a few leaves or 

 bracts. 



Epimedium* (figs. 61-69) bears hermaphrodite regular flowers 

 formed of dimerous whorls. The calyx presents first two outer 

 sepals, next an inner alternating pair, within these a third super- 

 posed to the first, and so on ; there may be from eight to ten of 



Fig. 60. 

 Long. sect, of fruit. 



1 Spec, 447.— DC, Prodr., n. 1.— Chry- 

 sogonum Dioscoridis Rauw., It., 119. — Bon- 

 gardia Chrysogonum Spach, Suit, a Buffon, 

 viii. 65. — P. Bauwolfii Led., Fl. Boss., i. 80. — 

 B. Olivieri C. A. Met., Verz. Pfl. Cave, 174. 



2 C. A. Met., loc. tit, — Endl., Gen., n. 

 4809.— J aub. & Spach, III. PI. Or., t, 396.— 

 B. H., Gen., 43, n. 9. — Chrysogonum Bauh., 

 Hist., iii. 876, fig. 2. 



3 L., Spec., 448.— DC, Prodr., n. 5. 



4 Caulophyllum Michx., Fl. Bor.-Amer., i. 

 204, t. 21.— B. H., Gen., 43, n. 11.— A. GfiAr, 

 Gen. III., t. 32. 



fl. Leontopetaium DC 

 Leontice. J 2. Bongardia (C. A. Met.). 

 Sect. 4. I 3. Gymnospermium (Spach). 

 '4. Caulophyllum (Michx.). 



6 R. Bk., in Trans. Linn. Soc, 143, t. 7 

 (Caulophyllum). — I)CNE., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 

 2, ii. t. 12 {Caulophyllum). — Nutt., Gen., i. 210 

 (Caulophyllum).— J aub. & Spach, III. PI. Or., 

 iv. t. 396 (Bongardia). — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 

 99.— Bot. Mag., t. 3245. — Walp., Pep., i. 

 100 (Bongardia) ; Ann., i. 19; iv. 149. 



' All are yellow. 



8 T., Inst., 232, t. 117.— L., Gen., n. 148.— 

 Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 432.— J., Gen., 287. — 

 Lame., Diet., ii. 376 ; Suppl. ii. 570 ; III., t. 

 83.— DC, Prodr., i. 110.— Spach, Suit, a 

 Buffon, viii. 55. — Pater, Organog., 240, t. 52.— 

 Endl., Gen., n.4811.— B. H., Gen., 44, n. 14. — 

 H. Bn., in Adansonia, ii. 269, 271, 275. 



