EXOGEN &, etary ieaaisigt weg 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, BERBERACE, 
i { ee a ‘ HEXANDRIA 
to which MONYG YNTIA, f 
DECANDOLLE. ie Plant a} OF LINNEDS. 
No, 50, 
pemaneen LEonTICE. Linnzvs. Serara 6 (nune on ental $ nuda. ‘Perara 
Oak. vesicaria 2-4 sp erma, SeMINA in org capsule inserta, eee 
Decanvotte. Prodromus regni vegetabilis, Vol. I, p. 1 
SPECIES. E CHRYSOGONUM, Fouts vinsaiects, ee ses- 
silibus oyvali- Scab whic 3-5 fidis, b ariosis. Ibid. 
_ CHARACTER OF THE GENUs, peak. SEPALS 6 (in the present 
case varying from 3 to 6) without any bracteal scales. Petars 6, 
each of their claws bearing a small scale on the inside, (in this in- 
stance there is only a nectariferous pore.) CapsuLe bladdery with 2 
to 4 seeds. SexEps attached to the bottom of the capsule, globose. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, LEONTICE cHRYSOGONUM. The 
lower part of the stem forms a subterranean tuber, usually considered 
as part of the root, about the size of a hazel nut, from the bottom ot 
which the fibres forming the actual root proceed. From the upper 
part of the tuber spring about 4 leaves, with long petioles, the limb 
pinnately subdivided into 5 to 8 sets of segments, the uppermost gen- 
erally in pairs, the others in fours and so arranged as to be semi-ver- 
‘ticillate and nearly cruciate, giving the leaf a compound appearance ; 
The segments cuneate, with the summits divided into 2 to 3 acute teeth, 
the terminal one largest and more divided, glabrous, glaucous-green, 
and mostly with a pale transverse band of purple. The scarious stipu- 
lx at the base of the petiole are concealed beneath the ground. Scapr 
branched, longer than the leaves, somewhat corymbose ; each pedicel 
rising from the axil of a blunt scariose bract, one-flowered. FLower 
golden yellow. Skrpats (in this specimen) 4 of unequal size, ovato- 
lanceolate, very caducous, somewhat coloured. Prraxs 6, obovate, 
REFERENCE TO THE DissEcTIONs. 
1, A Flower bud. 2, A transverse m of it; shewing the estivation lg a * Petal. 
a5 Back of staen 5, Front of dio, Dit with the valves ofthe anber open 
8, Section of ovary, shewing 2 ovules inside. 
