RANUNCULUS TRIBE ? 



mimite ; carpels numerous, forming a lengtliened spike. (Name, 

 Greek for a mouse's tail.) 



Cur pels man v-seedea 



7. Troi.lius (Globe-flower). — Sepals about 15, resembling 

 petals ; petals 5 or more, .small, narrow, flat. (Name said to be 

 derived from an old German word, signifying a globe.) 



8. Caltha (Marsh Marigold). — Sepals 5, resembling petals ; 

 no true petals. (Name from the Greek, cakithiis, a cup.) 



g. Hei.leborus (Hellebore). — Sepals 5, petal-like, persistent ; 

 petals small, tubular ; carpels 3-10. (Name from the Greek, 

 helein, to injure, and hora, food.) 



10. AouiLEGTA (Columbine.) — Sepals 5, petal-like, soon falling 

 off ; petals 5, with curved, tubular spur. (Name from the Latin, 

 aqitila, an eagle, to the claws of which its nectaries bear a fancied 

 resemblance.) 



11. Delphinium (Larkspur). — Sepals 5, petal-like, soon falling 

 off ; the upper one helmet-shaped, with a long spur at the base ; 

 petals 2, concealed within the spur of the sepal ; carpels I-5. 

 (Name from delphin, a dolphin, to which animal the upper sepal 

 bears a fancied resemblance.) 



12. AcoNiTUM (Monk's-hood). — Sepals |, petal-like, the upper 

 one helmet-shaped, but not spurred ; petals 2, forming a spur 

 which is concealed beneath the helmet-shaped sepal ; carpels 

 3-5. (Name of uncertain origin.) 



13. AcT.EA (Bane-berry). — Sepals 4, petal-like, soon fahing 

 off ; petals 4 ; fruit a many-seeded berry. (Name from the 

 Greek, acte, the elder, from the similarity of the leaves of the two 

 plants.) 



14. P.EONIA (Peony). — Sepals 5, not falling off ; petals 5-10 ; 

 carpels 2-5. (Name from PcBon, a Greek physician, who is said 

 to have cured wounds with it.) 



I. Clematis 



I. C. vitalba (Traveller's Joy). — The only British species. A 

 hedge shrub, common where limestone or chalk enters largely 

 into the compiosition of the soil ; climbing other shrubs by the 

 help of its twisting leaf-stalks, its stout woody stem and young 

 branches often carrying it to a height of several yards. Well 

 distinguished in summer by its loose panicles of greenish white, 

 fragrant flowers, and in winter by its tufts of feathery seed- 

 ve.ssels, popularly known by the name of " Old Man's Beard." 

 It received its name from " decking and adorning waies and 

 hedges where people travel." — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



