152 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Anemone. 



POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



DELPHFNIUM. Larkspur. 



D. Consolida.^ Field L. Capsule solitary. Nectary 

 of a single leaf. Stem subdivided, spreading. E. B. 

 1839. Consolida regalis sativa. G. E. 1082. f. 

 1,2. 



Sandy, or chalky cornfields. Near the Parks. Banbury. Bx. 



An. Ju7Le, July. 



Ls. in many divisions, with linear segments. Fl. blue. 



AQUILFGIA. Columbine." 



A. vulgaris. Common C. Nectaries about the length of 

 the petals ; their spurs curved inwards. Leaves and 

 stem smooth. Capsules hairy. E. B. 297' A. coe- 

 rulea. G. E. 1093. 



Meadows, pastures, thickets. Heaclington Wick Copse. Stow 



Wood, Wychwood Forest. Sb. 

 Per. June. 

 Stem not very leafy, branched. Ls. mostly root-Is., stalks very 



long'. Ls. twice in threes, bluntly lobed, glaucous beneath ; Is. 



on the stem nearly stalkless, uppermost of three entire, acute 



leafl. FL drooping, purple, sometimes rose-coloured. 

 In gardens, of various forms and colours. A handsome plant 



with its large irregular fl. 



STRATIO'TES ALOI'DES. Water-soldier, 



Naturalized in abundance, in the pond of Magdalen College 

 Meadow, by Mr. Baxter, Such naturalizations should of course 

 be noticed, to prevent confusion in the stations of plants. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



ANEMO'NE, Gr. Anemone. 



A. Pulsatilla. Pasque-jiower^ A. Flovi^er solitary, 

 nearly upright. Involucre in deep linear segments. 



' Name implies a supposed power of uniting wounds. 



2 Cohanba, a dove ; from the resemblance of the nectaries and petals to 

 doves. Mrs. Bnckett. 



3 From its flowering about Easter. G. E. Some explain the name from the 

 fl., being used to colour eggs purple, among catholics, and the Scotch, at 

 Easter. Query. Do the flowers yield a purple dye ? 



