KANUNCUL ACE/E. 
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** Anthers introrse. 
Tr. V. PjKONIE/E or spurious Ranunculacese. 
14. AcTiEA . Cal. of 4 petaloid deciduous sepals. I'et. 4. 
Carp. 1, baccate, indehiscent, many-seeded. 
15. PjEonia. Cal. of 5 persistent sepals. Pet. 5 or more. 
Follicles 2 — 5, many-seeded, bursting inwards, crowned with 
the bilaminated stigmas. 
Tribe I. Clematidece. 
1. Clematis Linn. 
1. C. Vitalba (L.) ; st. climbing, 1. pinnate, leaflets ovate 
acuminate entire coarsely serrate or inciso-lobate rounded or 
cordate below, petioles twining, sep. oblong downy on both 
sides, fr. with long feathery awns.— E.B. 612. R. 4667 — St. 
woody, angular, branched. Petioles acting as tendrils. The 
form with nearly entire scarcely lobed leaves with a rounded not 
cordate base, is probably C. scandens, JBorkh. — Hedges and 
thickets on a calcareous soil. Sh. VI. Traveller's Joy. — E. S. 
Tribe II. Anemoneee. 
2. Thalictrum Linn. 
1. T. alpinim (L.) ; st. perfectly simple and almost naked, 
cluster terminal simple, fruitstalks reflexed, carp, shortly stalked, 
curved at the end.— E. B. 262. R. 4625. — St. 3—6 in. high, quite 
smoooth. L. mostly radical, upon long stalks, twice ternate. — 
Higher parts of mountains. P. VI. VII. 
2. T. minus (L.); st. zigzag striated branched, 1. 2 — 3-pin- 
nate, leaflets ternate 3-cleft glaucous, stipules rounded spreading 
cut, fi. panicled drooping, "carp, attenuated at both ends." — 
E. B. 11. — St. 1 — 2 feet high. Leaflets bluntish. — Stony pas- 
tures or by the sea side. P. VI. VII. 
3?T. majus (Crantz); st. zigzag angular branched above, 1. 3- 
pinnate, leaflets ternate trifid broad glaucous, stip. " crescent- 
shaped notched," fi. subumbella/e drooping, carp, elliptical ob- 
liquely rounded below. — E. B. 611. — St. 3 — 6 feet high. Leaflets 
very broad, acute, the uppermost often entire and ovate. Perhaps 
only a variety of T. minus, but I think distinguishable by the 
above characters. — Bushy hills in the south of Scotland and 
north of England. P. VI. VII. E. S. 
4. T. flavum (L.) ; st. erect furrowed, 1. bipinnate, leaflets 
broadly obovate or wedge-shaped trifid, panicle compact co- 
rymbose, fi. erect. — E. B. 367. — L. rather paler beneath. Root 
creeping. The lower subdivisions of the petiole with stipules 
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