PL ex. thai. 85. RANUNCULACE^. 458. Poeonia. 711 



Clefts of rocks; naturalized; perennial; May. 



Root fasciculate; fibres thick, oblong, cylinclrical ; stem 

 3 feet high, purplish ; petals sometimes 6, crimson^ some- 

 times pale red and white ; ovaries 5 ; camares spread ; seeds 

 globular, red. — Used indifferently with the P. officinalis, 

 and preferred by some. 



2. Pceonia officinalis. Shop piony. 



Stem herbaceous ; camares woolly, upright at the base, 

 diverging at top ; leaves 2-ternately-cut; lobes bald, oblong; 

 middle lobe cut; side-lobes not cut. 



Paeoiiia fcemina, 72«27 S^n. Ind. pi. dub. : Ger.ew. 981, 2; Park. \BSO. 



Paeonia officinalis foemina, Lin. S. f. 747 a. 



Paeonia mascula, Miller Diet. 



Pseonia officinalis, Retz Observ.35. 



Paionia nemoralis, Salisbury Prod. 375. 



Female piony. Female peio nie. 



Woods, naturalized ; perennial ; May. 



Stem greenish. — Root made into necklaces, used against 

 the epilepsy in children, also given inwardly to adults ; 

 seeds used in the nightmare; syrup of the flowers anti- 

 epileptic. 



B. HELLEBOREiE. Colyx petalold ; sestivation imbricate ; 

 petals 5, 10, irregular, 2-lipped, nectariferous; or 0; sesti- 

 vation imbricate; anthers opening on the outside ; camares 

 dehiscent, many-seeded; seeds horizontal. — Stem herba- 

 ceous ; leaves alternate. 



III. 459. CONSOLIDA. Brunsfel. Larks-spur. 



Calyx coloured, deciduous, 5-sepaled ; upper sepale 

 spurred ; petals 4, sometimes soldered ; 2 upper petals 

 forming an inner spur ; stamens many ; ovary 1 ; camares 

 distinct; seeds many, dry-berrylike. — Roots annual; stem 

 upright, branchy; flowers racemose; hractece 3 to each 

 pedicell. 



ConsoUda regalis. Royal larks-spur. 



Stem upright, bald, divaricately branched ; flowers few, 

 in loose racemes; pedicells longer than the bractea; capsules 

 bald. 



Delphinium segetum, flore caeruleo, Dillen in Rait Syn. 273. 

 Consoli(l;i regalis sylvestiis, Ger.em. 1083, 5. 

 Delphinium Consolida, Lin. S. P. 748. 

 Delphinium segetum, Lamarck Ft. Fr. 325. 

 Delphinium versicolor, Salisbury Prod. 375. 

 Field larks-spur. Larks-heel. Larks-claw, 



