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being ovate or oblong, and the upper ones sometimes even linear ; 
generally 3-lobed. Panicle narrower, and its component parts 
more compact. The flowers have shorter pedicels and cream- 
coloured sepals, while the bright yellow erect anthers give that 
predominant tint to the inflorescence from which the species takes 
its specific name. Fruit small and dark, with 8 very prominent 
ribs. «a, 6, and y are probably only varieties, as the characters 
taken from the fruit and from the panicle are sometimes inter- 
changed ; though in f the latter appears to be always more ample 
and corymbose than in the other two. 
Yellow Meadow Rue 
Is probably the Oadtkzpov (thaliktron) of Dioscorides, iv. 96 ; and of Pliny, xxvii. 13. It 
has a root of a yellow colour, which is said to resemble rhubarb both in its appearance 
and properties. It yields a yellow dye, which may be employed for dyeing wool, and 
was formerly used asa remedy in jaundice. Like many of the family to which it belongs, 
it is very acrid, and produces blisters on the skin when applied to it. 
GENUS TTI—ANEMONE. Jin. 
Flowers involucrate. Sepals 4 to 20, petaloid, often downy, 
deciduous. Petals none. Stamens indefinite. Ovaries indefinite. 
Achenes capitate, indehiscent, terminated by the persistent styles 
which are in some species naked, and in others feathery. 
Herbs with dissected or lobed radical leaves and scapes with an 
involucre of 8 leaves in a whorl; or occasionally when the scape is 
branched there is a pair of opposite leaves, showing in this, as well 
as in general habit, an approach to Clematis, from ‘which, however, 
the imbricated sepals separate it. 
Sus-Genus I.—PULSATILLA. Tournef. 
Exterior stamens gland-like. Styles lengthening into feathery 
tails. Involucre at last distant from the flower. 
SPECIES I—ANEMONE PULSATILLA. Lin. 
Prats 1X. 
Pulsatilla vulgaris, Mill. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. IV. Ran. Tab. LIV. 
Fig. 4657. 
Flower erect, solitary. Involucre sessile, divided to the base 
into linear segments. Calyx campanulate, composed of 6 elliptical 
sepals, silky externally. Achenes with long white feathery tails. 
