2 2 Ranuncu lacece Paonia. 



4. P. decora. A purple-flowered species from Asia Minor, 

 Leaves tripartite ; lobes oblong, obtuse, hairy beneath. 



5. P. Wittmanniana. Distinguishable from all the others 

 by its bright yellow flowers. A native of the Caucasus. 



6. P. tenuifolia (fig. 20). A Siberian plant, remarkable for 

 its finely dissected foliage. It is of smaller stature and more 

 compact growth than the other species, and the flowers are not 

 quite so large. They are dark crimson, either single or double, 

 and appear in May. 



7. P. paradoxa. Leaves glaucous, ternate, lobes rather 

 obtuse with undulating margins, hairy beneath. Flowers pur- 

 ple or crimson, single or double. There is also a variety with 

 prettily fringed petals. From the Levant, flowering in May. 



ORDER II.-CALYCANTHACE^E. 



Deciduous shrubs with opposite undivided entire exstipulate 

 leaves and solitary axillary often fragrant or aromatic flowers. 

 Sepals and petals in many series, the outermost small and bract- 

 like, the inner petaloid, inserted on the outside of a fleshy 

 urceolate torus having the appearance of the tube of a perianth. 

 Stamens numerous, inserted at the mouth of the torus. Carpels 

 many, free, included within the. tubular torus, 1- or 2-seeded ; 

 seeds erect, exalbuminous. A small group of about four species 

 from North America and Japan. The only two genera referred 

 here are both represented in our gardens. 



1. CALYClNTHUS. 



Stamens in many series, the twelve outer fertile. Flowers 

 purple, lurid red or brownish, appearing in Summer. There are 

 three North American species, with seven or eight names. 

 Derived from /raXvf, cup or calyx, and avOos, a flower, from 

 the coloured sepals. 



1. G. floridus. Carolina Allspice. Leaves oval or rotun- 

 date, rounded at the base, hispid above, softly pubescent be- 

 neath. Flowers very shortly pedunculate. A compact free- 

 flowering species, very common in gardens. There are several 

 varieties in nurseries, under the names nanus, inodorus, Penn- 

 sylvdnicus, asplenifolius, with cut leaves ; bullatus, with blad- 

 dery leaves, etc. 



2. G. occidentalis. Leaves oblong or ovate-cordate, acuminate, 

 hispid above, slightly pubescent on the veins only beneath. A 



