CATALOGUE OF PLANTS 



IN THE 



BRISBANE BOTANIC AND BOWEN PARK 

 GARDENS. 



Class I.— DICOTYLEDONS. 



Subclass POLYPETAL.E. Seeies THALAMIPLOE^. 



Alliance RAN ALES. 



Order KANUNCULACEJE. 

 (Buttercup Family.) 



Acridity and causticity in. the juices are prevailing characteristics of the order. Some are 

 strong poisons ; but in many the poisonous principle is volatile, disappearing in the process of 

 drying. 



Teibe ClEMATLDE^E. 

 CLEMATIS, Linn. 



Plants of this genus are known as Virgin's Bower, Traveller's Joy, and Old Han's Beard. 

 Several of the plants have had a high character as curatives for various disorders, but at the 

 present are only retained in the Pharmacopoeia of the homoeopathist. 



cserulea, Lindl. ; cl. ; Japan. B. 

 florida, Thunb. ; cl. ; Japan. B. 



var. Sieboldii; cl. ; Japan. B. 

 glycinoides, DC. ; cl. ; Australia. B. 



The size and beauty of the flowers of this fragrant indigenous climber might be greatly 

 improved by hybridisation with the larger and more showy garden species. 



Jackmannii, Hort. ; cl. B. 



rubro-violacea. B. 



virginiana, Linn. ; cl. ; North America. B. 



J. U. Lloyd, in a work now being published— " Drugs and Medicines of North America," No. 1. 

 page 15 — says that he found C. virginiana quite as active as its congener, and equally as useful in 

 nervous erethism, sleeplessness, neuralgic and rheumatic headache, and toothache. 



Teibe Anemones. 

 THALICTRUM, Linn. ; Meadow Rue. 



aquilegifolium, Linn. ; her. per. ; Europe. A. 



ANEMONE, Linn. ; Wind-flower. 



hortensis, Linn. ; Star Anemone; tu. ; Italy. A.B. 

 japonica, Zticc. ; tu. ; Japan. A.B. . 

 var. alba ; tu. A.B. 



E 



