BUTTERCUP FAMILY 5 



3. T. mdjus (Greater Meadow-rue). — Stem 2 — 4 feet high, 

 solid or hollow, branched, leafy to the base, flexuous, more or less 

 furrowed ; leaves bi- or tri-pinnate, stipulate ; stipules with horizon- 

 tally-spreading or reflexed auricles ; leaflets large, variable, 3 — 5 

 lobed ; petioles with spreading branches ; flowers in a loose, 

 generally leafy, compound raceme with spreading branches, 

 drooping ; sepals 4, yellow-green ; anthers apiculate. A form with 

 a solid stem and reflexed auricles to its stipules occurs in damp 



thalIctrum flavum (Yellow Mead<nv~rue). 



copses and stony places, chiefly in the north. — Fl. July, August. 

 The taller form, with a hollow, less furrowed stem, smaller leaflets, 

 horizontally-spreading auricles to the stipules, and no leaves among 

 the flowers, grows only in the Lake district. 



4. T. flavum (Yellow Meadow-rue). — Stem erect, branched, 

 furrowed, 2 — 4 feet high ; leaves bipinnate ; flowers crowded, erect, 

 pale yellow. — Not uncommon about the banks of ditches and 

 rivers. — Fl. July, August. 



