712 459. Consolida. 85. RANUNCULAC. PL ex. thai. 



Sandy fields; annual; June and July, 

 Stem herbaceous, bald or downy; stem branched ;^OM/erf 

 of various colours. — Seeds acrid . 



IV. 460. AQUILEGIA. Tragus. Columline. 

 Calyx 5-sepaled, deciduous, sepales coloured, petal-like ; 



petals 5, gaping above, 2-lipped ; outer lip large, flat ; inner 

 very small ; produced behind into spurs exserted between 

 the sepales; stamens many, in 5 to 10 series; interior fila- 

 ments membranaceous, oblong, without anthers ; ovaries 5 ; 

 camares 5, upright, many-seeded. — Root perennial ; stem 

 herbaceous, upright ; lower leaves longly petioled ; petioles 

 3-cut, biternate; lobes 3-fid, toothed, blunt; upper leaves 

 lobed, lobes linear ; flowers terminal, variously coloured. 



Aquilegia vulgaris. Common columline. 



Spurs bent inwards ; capsules villous ; stem rather bald, 

 leafy, many-flowered ; leaves nearly bald ; styles not longer 

 than the stamens. 



Aquilegia flore simplici, Rail Syn. 273. 



Aquilegiii caerulea, and A. rubra, Ger. em, 1093, 1, and 2. 



Aquilegia vulgaris simplex, Park. 1367. 



Aquilegia vulgaris, Lin, S. P. 752. 



Fields and copses ; perennial ; July. 

 Herb mostly bald, rarely downy ; leaf-lobes mostly cut. | 

 Jiowers panicled, drooping, pale. 



V. 461. HELLEBORUS. Dioscorides. Hellebore. 

 Calyx persisting, 5-sepaled ; sepales large, roundish, 



obtuse, mostly green ; petals 8 or 10, very short, tubular ; 

 below slender, nectariferous; stamefis SO to 60; ovaries 3 

 to 10; stigmata terminal, orbicular; camares coriaceous; 

 seeds in 2 rows, elliptic, umbilicated. — Plants herbaceous, 

 perennial, hard, coriaceous, bald, sometimes slightly downy 

 under the leaves ; root-leaves petioled, palmately or pedately 

 cut; lobes oblong, toothed : stem-leaves various, oftenest 0. 



a. Stem few-flowered, mostly forked^ floral leaves sessile, cut. 



1 . Helleborus viridis. Green hellebore. 



Root-leaves quite bald, pedately cut; stem-leaves nearly 

 sessile, palmately parted; peduncles often 2-cut; sepales 

 roundish, ovate, green. 



