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numerous. Styles several. Achenes without awns (sessile, or 

 nearly so, ribbed, usually acute at both ends, and flowers per- 

 fect, in the British species). Involucre none. — Named from 

 S-aXXw, to be green ov flourishing , 



1. T. alpinum L. (alpine M,) ; stem simple nearly leafless, 

 raceme simple terminal, flowers drooping. £J. B. t. 262. 



Mountains in the north of England, Wales, and Scotland, frequent. 

 -If. 6, 7. — Root-leaves upon long stalks, biternate ; leaflets roundish, 

 crenate, or lobed, dark-green, Stam, 10 — 12. Ovaries 2 — 4. Flowers 

 few. Pedicels in fruit recurved : they are straight in the two foU 

 lowing. 



2. T. minus L. (lesser M.) ; glabrous or slightly pubescent, 

 leaves 3 — 4-pinnate, leaflets roundish or wedge-shaped trifid 

 and toothed glaucous beneath, panicle diffuse its branches al- 

 ternate or whorled, flowers mostly drooping. — a. stem leafless 

 at the base, petioles with inflexed auricles at the base, panicle 

 leafless, achenes fusiform. JS.B. t. 11. — /3. stem leafy to the 

 base, petioles with reflexed -auricles, panicle leafy, achenes 

 narrow oblong. T. majus Sm.: E, JB. t. 611. T. flexuosum 

 Bernh. — y, stem leafy to the base, petioles with horizontal 

 auricles, panicle leafless, achenes oval. T. saxatile D. C. T. 

 Kochii Fries. 



Stony pastures, especially in limestone or chalky countries. Sand- 

 hills on the coast, near S. Shields and Yarmouth; Scotland.' — ^* 

 Principally in the north of England and in Scotland. 7. Cheddar, 

 Somersetshire. 2/.. 6, 7. — Stem usually zigzag, from one to two feet 

 high, mostly glaucous, solid, or hollow particularly when luxuriant. 

 Although we do not recognise the above as distinct species, we avail 

 ourselves of the characters proposed by Mr. Babington to mark our 

 varieties. T. pubescens^ foetidum, catcareum^ &c., appear to be the 

 pubescent or glandular states of it, and 21 nutans Desf. a form with 

 much-acuminated leaflets. 



3. T.fldvwn L. (common M.) ; stem erect branched furrowed, 

 leaves bipinnate, leaflets broadly obovate or wedge-shaped trifid, 

 panicle compact subcorymbose, flowers erect. J&. B. t. 367. 



/3. leaflets almost rotundate. 



Banks of rivers and ditches and In moist meadows. Less frequent 

 in Scotland, and principally found along the shores of the Clyde. — ^. 

 Isle of Bute. "2/. . 6, 7. — Stem 2 — 3 ft. high. Flowers very nume- 

 rous, yellow. Lobes of the leaves varying in breadth. 



3. Anemone Linn, Anemone. 



' Involucre of 3 divided leaves, more or less remote from the . 

 flower. CaL petaloid, of 5— 9 sepals, imbricated in gestivation. 

 Cor. 0. Stamens and Stt/les numerous. Achenes pointed or 



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