38 POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Clematis. 



broader, richer, and more hairy foliage. Flower very elegant, 

 bright blue. Pet. about 1 2 to 16, spreading, lanceolate, blunt- 

 ish. Stalk above the leafy involucrum silky. The wooden cuts 

 above indicated are truly excellent. 



4. A. ranunculoides . Yellow Wood Anemone. 



Flowers solitary, or in pairs. Petals five, elliptical. Seeds 

 pointed, without tails. Involucrum of three, somewhat 

 stalked, deeply cut, leaves. 



A. ranunculoides. Linn. Sp. PI. 762. fVilld.v.2.l282. Fl.Br. 532, 

 Engl. Bot. v.2l.t. 1484. Huds. 237. DeCand. Syst.v.\.206. 

 Fl.Dan.t.]40. 



A. n. 1153. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 64. 



A. nemorum lutea. Gar. Em. 383./. Rail Hist. v. I. 625. 



Ranunculus sylvestris luteus. Trag. Hist. 95./. with SJlowers. 



R. nemorosus luteus. Bauh. Pin. 1 78. Lob. Ic. 674./. 



Ranunculi tertia species. Cord. Hist. 120, with the cut of Tragus. 



R. quarta species lutea. Fuchs. Hist. 1 62./. 



In groves, very rare. 



Near King's Langley, Herts ; and Wrotham, Kent. Hudson. Near 

 Abbot's Langley. Mr. G. /Anderson. 



Perennial. April. 



Root and herbage much like A. nemorosa, but the radical leaves are 

 few, often quinate. Involucral leaves 3, nearly sessile, ternate, 

 or quinate. Fl. 1 or 2, I have never seen more, on hairy par- 

 tial stalks. Pet. elliptical, obtuse, always bright yellow, and na- 

 turally 5, though the cut of Gerarde and Lobel has 6, which some- 

 times happens to the wild plant, as A. nemorosa has occasion- 

 ally 7. Seeds i^w, hairy, roundish, beaked. 



This having never, as far as can be learned from old writers, been 

 a garden plant in England, cannot safely be asserted to have 

 escaped from gardens. I have wild specimens from the excellent 

 author of the Flora Anglica, and from the late Mr. G. Ander- 

 son ; two men whose accuracy and judgment are as unimpeach- 

 able as their honesty. 



276. CLEMATIS. Traveller's Joy. 



Linn.Gen.280. Juss.232. Fl. Br.583. Lam.t.497. Gcertn.t.74. 



DeCand. Syst.v. J. 131. 

 Clematitis. Tourn- t. 150. 



Nat. Ord. see ii. 270—273, and 275 — 282. 



Cal. none. Pet. from 4 to 8, inferior, regular, oblong, in 

 the bud either valvular, or folded in at the edges. Filam. 

 numerous, swelling upward. Anth. terminal, of 2 oblong 

 lobes, bursting laterally. Germ, superior, sessile, ovate, 

 collected into a round head. Styles terminal, much longer 



