PI. ex. that. 83. RANUNCULACEiE. 471.Thalict. 727 
Thalictrum sive Thalictrum majus, Ger. em. 1251, 1. 
Thalictrum majus vulgare, Park. 263. 
Thalictrum majus, Murray Syst. Veg. 513. 
Great bastard rhubarb. English rhubarb. 
Shady mountainous places; perennial; June and July. 
Stem 3 feet high ; leaves dark green ; petioles diverging, 
spreading; panicle much bent; sepales greenish purple; 
cariopsides large, bellied on one side, obliquely rounded at 
bottom. — Root used as rhubarb. 
4. Thalictrum nigricans . Blackish meadow-rue. 
Stem stiff, branched, furrowed ; root fibrous ; panicle 
manifold, upright, nearly corymbous; radical-leaf -segments 
wedge-shaped, 3-cut ; stem-leaf-segments oblong, linear. 
Thalictrum nigricans, J acquin Austr . 5,421. 
Thalictrum rugosum, Poiret Diet. 5, 31T. 
Thalictrum flavum 2, Lightfoot FI. Scot. 
Edges of fields and rivers ; perennial ; July. 
Lobes of the leaves neither all wedgeshape, nor all linear. 
5. Thalictrum flavum. Yellow meadow-rue. 
Stem upright, branched, furrowed; root fibrous; panicle 
manifold, upright, nearly corymbous ; leaf-segments wedge- 
shape, 3-cut, acute. 
Thalictrum sen Thalictrum majus, Rail Syn. 203, 1 ; not of Gerarde. 
Thalictrum flavum «, Lin. S. P.7 70. 
Thalictrum flavum, Miller Diet. 
Damp fields and sides of rivers; perennial; July. 
Stem 3 feet high ; panicle slightly leafed ; flowers up- 
right; sepales 4; stamens 24; ovaries 8 to 10; stigmata 
thick, heartshape, white. — -Root astringent yet purgative. 
E. Clematideje. ^Estivation of the calyx valvate, or 
induplicate; petals flat, or 0; anthers linear, fastened out- 
side the filaments ; cariopsides tailed ; tails feathered : seeds 
pendulous. — Plants climbing, shrubby ; leaves opposite. 
XVI. 472. CLEMATIS. Dioscorides. Traveller s-yoy . 
Involucrum under the flower 0 ; sepales 4 to 8 ; aestivation 
valvate, or induplicate ; petals 0 ; cariopsides many, ending 
in a long feathered beard ; cotyledons distant. 
Clematis dumosa. Bush travellers-joy. 
Stem climbing ; leaves pinnately cut ; segments ovate, 
lanceolate, deeply toothed, acuminated ; truncated heart- 
shape at the base ; peduncles rather shorter than the leaf 
