FLOWERING PLANTS. 5 
irregularly ovoid, slightly compressed, bulging on the inner side 
near the apex. Fruit-pedicels ascending. Anthers apiculate. Leaves 
ternately bi- or tri-pinnate. 
Sup-Srecies I. — Thalictrum eu-minus.* 
Puates III. & TV. (Named there 7. minus.) 
(T. minus, Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. III. Ran. Tab, XXVIT. Fig. 4627.) 
T. minus “L.” Zab. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. ii. Vol. XI. p. 266 ; and Man. Br. Bot. ed. v. 
p- 3. Fries. Mant. III. p. 45; and Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 155. Koch, Syn. FI. 
Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 4. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 6. Hook. & 
Arn. Br. Fl. ed. viii. p. 5 (exclude 6 & y). Genth. Handbk. Br. Fl. p. 56 (in 
part). Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. III. p. 41 (in part). 
Stem leafless at the base. Auricles of the stipules * spreading.” 
Branches of the petioles ascending. Panicle irregularly pyramidal, 
primary bracts resembling leaves, but much smaller; secondary 
ones usually simple. 
Var. a. DMaritimum. 
Puate Iil. 
Panicle nearly as broad as long, with divaricate branches. 
Var. 8. Montanum. 
Prats IV. 
T. montanum, Wallroth, Sched. Crit. p. 255. 
Pauicle longer than broad, with patent-ascending branches. 
Rather scarce, but generally distributed; « occurring on sandy 
sea-coasts, 8 on stony pastures, inland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock stoloniferous. Stem flexuous, striated, 6 inches to a 
foot high in «, but considerably taller in 6, occasionally attaining 
the height of 2 feet or more; lower part of the stem with leafless 
sheaths. Leaves triangular in outline, bi- or tri-pinnate, the lower- 
most primary subdivisions so much larger than the others that the 
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* In adopting the division of species into sub-species, a difficulty occurs when one of 
the latter bears the same name as the species of which it forms a part. This difficulty 
can only be overcome by giving a new name to the sub-species. Some inconvenience 
must always arise from any change of nomenclature ; but greater confusion and uncer- 
tainty wou'd assuredly result from having the name which properly belongs to the 
whole also applied to one of its parts, to the exclusion of the others. 
When a sub-species requires a distinctive appellation, it seems best to follow the plan 
adopted in naming sub-genera, which is to give the name of the genus with the prefix 
ew ta the typical sub-genus In accordance with this system, the name eu-minus is 
