PL ex. that, 85. RANUNCULACEiE. 458. Pmonia. 711 
Clefts of rocks; naturalized; perennial; May. 
Pool fasciculate; fibres thick, oblong, cylindrical; stem 
3 feet high, purplish ; petals sometimes 6, crimson, some- 
times pale red and white ; ovaries 5 ; camares spread ; seeds 
globular, red. — Used indifferently with the P. officinalis, 
and preferred by some. 
2. Pceonia officinalis. Shop piony. 
Stem herbaceous ; camares woolly, upright at the base, 
diverging at top ; leaves 2-ternately-cut ; lobes bald, oblong; 
middle lobe cut; side-lobes not cut. 
Paeonia fcemina, Raii Syn. Ind.pl. dub.; Ger.em. 981,2; Park. 1380. 
Paeonia officinalis fcemina, Lin. S. P. 747 a. 
Paeonia inascula, Miller Bid. 
Paeonia officinalis, Retz Observ.3 5. 
Paeonia nemoralis, Salisbury Prod. 375. 
Female piony. Female peionie. 
Woods, naturalized; perennial; May. 
Stem greenish. — Root made into necklaces, used against 
the epilepsy in children, also given inwardly to adults ; 
seeds used in the nightmare; syrup of the flowers anti- 
epileptic. 
B. Hellebores. Calyx petaloid ; aestivation imbricate ; 
petals 5, 10, irregular, 2-lipped, nectariferous; or 0; aesti- 
vation imbricate; anthers opening on the outside ; camares 
dehiscent, many-seeded ; seeds horizontal. — Stem herba- 
ceous ; leaves alternate. 
III. 459. CONSOLIDA. Brunsfel. Larks- spur. 
Calyx coloured, deciduous, 5-sepaled ; upper sepale 
spurred ; petals 4, sometimes soldered ; 2 upper petals 
forming an inner spur; stamens many; ovary 1; camares 
distinct; seeds many, dry-berrylike. — Roots annual; stem 
upright, branchy; flowers racemose; bractece 3 to each 
pedicel 1. 
Consolida regalis. Royal larks -spur. 
Stem upright, bald, divaricately branched ; flowers few, 
in loose racemes; pedicells longer than the bractea; capsules 
bald. 
Delphinium segetum, Acre caeruleo, Dillen in Raii Syn. 27 3. 
Consolida regalis sylvestris, Ger.em. 1083,5. 
Delphinium Consolida, Lin. S. P. 748. 
Delphinium segetum, Lamarck FI. Fr. 325. 
Delphinium versicolor, Salisbury Prod. 375. 
Field lurks -spur. Larks-heel. Larks-claw, 
