726 470. Pulsat. 85. RANUNCULACEiE. Pl.ex.thal 
Hilly pastures on chalk ; perennial ; April and May. 
Color very variable ; often double. — Plant acrid. 
XV. 471. THALICTRUM. Dioscorides. Meadow-rue . 
Flowers dioicous, polygamous, often hermaphrodite ; 
calyx 4 or 5-sepaled ; sepales ovate, petaloid, soon falling 
off ; stamens many ; ovaries 4 to 15; styles short ; cariopsides 
sessile, ovate, streaked lengthways. — Plants perennial ; roots 
yellowish, fibrous; stems annual, fistulous; leaves many- 
cut ; stipules 0 ; flowers panicled, yellowish. 
1 . Thalictrum alpinum. Alpine meadow-rue , 
Stem not in the least branched, nearly naked, a finger’s 
height; racemes simple, terminal; flowers nodding; leafl 
segments bald. 
Thalictrum minimum montanum atro-rubens, foliis splendentihus, Raii 
Syn. 204, 4, 
Thalictrum Alpinum, Lin. S. P. 767. 
Alpine turf-bogs ; perennial ; June. 
Root creeping ; stem bald ; leaves 5 or 6, radical, pin- 
nately cut; lobes sessile, 3 or 5-toothed; above shining, 
beneath pale ; flowers 7 or 8 ; pedicells short, rather dis- 
tant; stamens 12; ovaries few. 
2 . Thalictrum minus. Small meadow-rue , 
Stem cylindrical, covered with glaucous pollen ; flowers 
loosely panicled, nodding, 4-sepaled ; leaf-segments bald, 
roundish, toothed at the tip, glaucous beneath; cariopsides 
sharp at both ends. 
Thalictrum minus, Raii Syn. 203,2; Ger. em. 1251,2; Park. 264; Lin. 
S. P. 769. 
Small bastard rhubarb. Fen rue. 
Mountainous pastures on chalk; perennial; June, July. 
Stem 1 foot high; leaves spreading; segments ovate, 
nearly round, 3 or 5-toothed at the tip; panicle naked, 
stiff, very open ; cariopsides 3 to 6. 
g. latifolium. Leaflets broad. 
Thalictrum montanum minus, foliis latioribus, Raii Syn. 204. 
3 . Thalictrum majus. Great meadow-rue. 
Stem cylindrical, without glaucous pollen \ flowers loosely 
panicled, drooping ; leaf-segments bald, glaucous beneath, 
3-cut ; lobes ovate, slightly mucronate ; cariopsides obliquely 
rounded. 
