FLOWERING PLANTS. 7 
Usually much taller than the preceding sub-species, being from 
1 to 5 feet high, and more leafy; but in most respects it is very 
similar, though the leaflets are usually much larger and rather 
longer in proportion to their breadth. The panicle is generally less 
pyramidal, being frequently flat-topped, and the achenes are rather 
longer, with about 10 ribs. T. minus is represented in the Linnzean 
Herbarium by a specimen of this plant. 
Lesser Meadow Rue. 
SPECIES IIL—THALICTRUM KOCHII. Fries. 
Puate VI. 
Dab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 4. 
Fries, Mant. III. p. 46; and Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 136. T. saxatile, Bab. Ann. Nat. 
Hist. ser. ii, Vol. XI. p. 263. Gr. & Godr.? Fi. de Fr. p. 7. 
Stem very slightly zigzag, smooth, except immediately below 
the sheaths, where it is striated, leafy to the base. Stipules with 
*‘horizontal” auricles. Branches of the petioles spreading. Panicle 
lax, regularly pyramidal, with spreading branches. Flowers droop- 
ing. Primary bracts resembling the leaves, but very small; 
secondary ones usually entire. Achenes regularly ovate-ovoid, pale 
olive. Anthers apiculate. Leaves bi- or tri-pinnate. Leaflets 3- to 
5-lobed. 
Apparently very local, as it is only known to occur in damp 
places in the Lake district, — ‘“ Brathay, near Ambleside, and 
St. John’s Vale, near Keswick.” (Babd.) 
England. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 
A large plant, with the stem often 4 feet high, bearing much 
resemblance to the more luxuriant states of T. flexuosum, from 
which it is best distinguished by the achenes, which are scarcely com- 
pressed, and not at all gibbous on the inner side, as in that plant. 
The stem also differs in not being striated, except immediately under 
the leaf-sheaths, the strise on which are continued downwards for 
a short distance. The panicle is more regularly pyramidal, and less 
leafy. My knowledge of this plant is unfortunately only founded 
on dried specimens. I have an imperfect specimen from “ near 
St. Kevett’s”’ ? Cornwall, received from Mr. Baker, which appears 
to belong to this species; but it is in flower, not in fruit. 
Koch's Meadow Rue. 
