CLEMATIS. THALICTHUM. 
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10. Helleborcs. Cal. of 5 petal-like persistent sepals. Pet. 
small, tubular, 2-lipped, clawed. Follicles 3 — 10, sessile. 
11. Aquilegia. Cal. of 5 petal-like deciduous sepals. Pet. 5, 
funnel-shaped, with a long hornlike spur. Follicles 5. 
12. Delphinium. Cal. of 5 petal-like deciduous sepals, upper 
Sep. tvith a long spur at its base. Pet. 4 ; 2 upper ones with 
spurs included in the spurred sepal, or all combined into one 
spurred petal. FoUicles 1, .3 or 5, 
13. AcoNiTFM. Cal. of 5 petal-like sepals, upper one helmet- 
shaped. Two xipper pet. tubular, oti long stalks, concealed in 
the helmet-shaped sepal. Follicles 3 — 5. 
** Antliers introrse. {Stam. arising from a glandular disk.) 
Tr. v. PjEONIEjE or spurious Ranunculaceae. 
14. Act.s:a. Cal. of 4 petal-like deciduous sepals. Pet. 4, 
very small. Carp. 1, baccate, not bursting, many-seeded. 
[15. P^ONiA. Cal. of 5 persistent sepals. Pet. 5 or more. 
Follicles 2 — 5, many-seeded, bursting inwards.'] 
Tribe I. ClematidecB. 
1. Clem'atis Linn. Traveller's Joy. 
1. C. Vital'ba (L.) ; st. climbing, 1. pinnate, leaflets ovate 
acuminate entire coarsely serrate or incise-lobate rounded or 
cordate below, petioles twining, sep. oblong do-miy on both 
sides, fr. with long feathery awns. — E. B. 612. Jt iv. 64. — St. 
.woody, angidar, branched, very long. Petioles acting as tendrils. 
I — Hedges and thickets on a calcareous soil. Sh. VI. E. 
Tribe II. Anemonece. 
, . . 2. Thalic'tkum Linn. Meadow-E.ue. 
1. T. alpinum (L.) ; st. perfectly simple and nearly leafless, 
raceme terminal simple, fniitstalks reflexed, carp, shortly stalked 
lippedVith the hooked style.— ^. £. 262. It. iii. 26.— St. 3—6 in. 
jiigh, quite smooth. L. mostly radical, upon long stalks, twice 
Inmate. — Higher parts of mountains. P. VI. VII. jE. S. I. 
I 2. T. minus (L.) ; st. zigzag striate branched leafless but 
jiheathed at the base, stip. with spreading auricles, 1. 2 — 3-pinnate, 
ts. temate 3-cleft glaucous, petioles with angular ascending 
)ranches, fl. drooping in aleafless panicle, carp, fusifonn 8-ribbed 
iubcompressed ventricose below externally. — St. 1 — H ft. high, 
isually solid ; sheaths at its base rather lax. Fl. greenish yellow 
as are those of Sp. 3, 4 and 5). — a ; fr. -branches often hori- 
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