780 THALICTRDM. [CLASS XIII. ORDER III. 



loso-pubescent, auricles of the sheaths roundish, or acute, with awl- 

 shaped spreading teeth ; panicle spreading, with alternate or whorled 

 branches ; stamens pendulous. 



English Botany, t. 11. — English Plora, vol. iii. p. 41. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 217. — Lindley, Synopsis, p 9. 



(3. dumosum, Koch. Larger, more branched, and spreading; seg- 

 ments of the leaves larger, and more acuminated. 



/3. Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 217. — T. majus. — English 

 Botany, t. 611. — English Flora, vol. iii. p. 42. — Lindley, Synopsis, 

 p. 9. 



y. glandulosum, Koch. Stem, petioles, leaves beneath, or on both 

 sides with very short glandular pubescence. 



T. pubescens, Schl. De Cand. Prod. 1. p. 13. 



Root somewhat creeping, with branched fibres. Stem erect, or 

 ascending, from four to eighteen inches high, zigzag from the joints, 

 round, striated, smooth and shining, or glaucous, or glandulo-pubescent, 

 green or purple, more or less branched and spreading. Leaves nu- 

 merous, alternate, three or four pinnate, with the common stalk 

 angular, and more or less deeply furrowed, dilated and sheathing at 

 the base, with thin auricular expansions, roundish, acute, toothed or 

 fringed on the margin, segments of the leaves roundish, or ovate, 

 wedge-shaped, reticulated with veins, the margins somewhat recurved, 

 a more or less glaucous green, paler beneath, and together with the 

 stem sometimes scattered over more or less thicily with short glandular 

 pubescence. Inflorescence a spreading panicle, with the branches 

 alternate or whorled, with simple awl-shaped or ternate hracteas. 

 Calyx of four ovate oblong spreading pieces, sub-membranous, ribbed. 

 Stamens numerous, pendulous, with slender capillary filaments, and 

 linear oblong anthers, of two cells, terminating in a point. Germens 

 four to eight, smooth, pointed, with a sessile, flattish, spreading 

 stigma. Capsules spreading, smooth, deeply furrowed. 



Habitat. — Hills and rocky places not unfrequent ; especially in 

 limestone or chalky countries. ^. and y. on limestone rocks, Caslleton, 

 Derbyshire. 



Perennial; flowering in June and July. 



This is an extremely variable plant in size, both of the stem and 

 leaves, and is either quite smooth or more or less scattered over with 

 very short glandular hairs. We have specimens of every grade in the 

 form of the leaflets, from the small ovate wedge-shaped to the roundish 

 ovate, nearly an inch across, and much acuminated at the point, 



** Stamens erect. 

 3. T. Jla'vum, Linn. (Fig. 886.) Common Meadow Rue. Stem 

 erect, leafy, furrowed ; leaves bi-pinnate ; leaflets ovate, wedge- 

 shaped, entire, or two or three-cleft, the upper ones linear ; auricles of 

 the sheath orate, acuminate, toothed ; panicle compact, sub-corymbose; 

 flowers and stamens erect ; root creeping. 



