42 POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Thalictrum. 



3. T. majus. Greater Meadow-rue. 



Leaves triply pinnate ; leaflets ternate, lobed, glaucous be- 

 neath. Branches of the panicle aggregate, somewhat um- 

 bellate. Flowers drooping. Stipulas crescent-shaped, 

 notched. 



T. majus. Crantz. Austr.fasc. 2. 80. Jacq. Austr. t. 420. Murr. 



Syst.Feg. Linn. ed.l4. 513. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.2.\297. Fl. Br. 585. 



Engl.BoLv.9.t.6\l. DeCand. Syst.v.l.VJQ. Ger. Em. 1251./. 

 T. magnum. Dod. Pempt. 58. f. 

 Ruta pratensis herbariorum. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 56./. 



On bushy hills in the north of England. 



At Baydales, near Darlington j also on the margin of Ulswater, 

 Cumberland. Mr. Robson. 



Perennial. . June, July. 



Twice or thrice the size of the last. Leaflets of a dark shining 

 green on the upper side ; glaucous beneath only ; the larger 

 ones often an inch broad. Stem 3 feet high, or more, purplish, 

 angular in the upper part. Lower branches of i\\& panicle 2 or 3 

 together ; uppermost either umbellate or alternate. Fl. on long 

 stalks, drooping. Pet. 4, purplish green. Aath. yellow, quite 

 pendulous. Seeds obliquely elliptical, furrowed. The wooden 

 cut of the old authors above quoted, the same in all, certainly 

 belongs to this species, and not to the following. The character 

 of the panicle, and its difference from T. minus, are there well 

 expressed, nor can these species be confounded. 



4. T.Jiavum. Common Meadow-rue. 



Stem erect, furrowed, leafy. Leaves doubly pinnate : part- 

 ly three-lobed. Panicle compound, close, corymbose. 

 Flowers and stamens erect 



T. flavum. Li7in.Sp.Pl.770. Willd. v. 2. 1300. Fl. Br. 585. 



Engl. Bot. V. 6. t. 367. Hook. Scot. 172. DeCand. Syst. v. 1. 182. 



Fl. Dan. t. 939. Ehrh. PL Off. 3.56. 

 T. nigricans. Jacq. Austr. ^ 421, DeCand. Syst. v. 1 . 182. 

 T. n. 11 38. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 57 ; excl. the syn.of Dodoneeus. 

 T. seu Thalictrum majus. Raii Syn. 203 ; but not of Gerarde. 

 T. nigrius, caule et semine striate Bauh.,Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 486. f. 

 |3. T. majus, foliis rugosis trifidis. Moris, v. 3.324. sect. 9. t. 20. f. 3. 



In wet meadows, and about the banks of rivers and ditches, com- 

 mon. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root fibrous, yellow. Stem 3 or 4 feet high, erect, straight, branch- 

 ed, leafy, hollow, deeply furrowed and angular, smooth. Leaves 

 doubly pinnate ; ultimately ternate, with general and partial 

 membranous rounded siipuZas; lea/lets smooth,vemy; deep grassy 



