BRITISH PLANTS — THE THALICTRUM. 
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Shiner (Beck), 1845. — Light red, top 
petals with a dark veiny cloud, edged with 
crimson ; size average ; form good. 
Sirius (Beck), 1845. — Light red, top 
petals with a dark irregular cloud ; medium. 
Sir JET. Smith (Gaines), 1846. — Purplish 
rose, with dark spot on top petals; medium 
size ; form moderately good. 
Sir TV. Wallace (Lindsay), 1845. — Red, 
top petals with a dark mottled cloud ; form 
bad. 
Smouch (Beck), 1846. — Rose, top petals 
with a dark cloud and narrow rose edge ; size 
average ; a little uneven. 
Snowball (Thurtell), 1845.— White, top 
petals with small crimson veiny spot; reflexed; 
indifferent. 
Stromboli (Hoyle), 1846. — Pink, top petals 
with a dark veiny cloud, surrounded with an 
edge of rose pink ; centre white ; form mode- 
rately good. 
Sunset (Hoyle), 1845. — Pale red, top 
petals with a veiny mottled cloud, edged with 
bright red ; size average ; form good, even. 
Talisman (Lyne), 1846. — Purplish rose, 
with slight purple dashes ; top petals with a 
dark veiny blotch, edged with a narrow band 
of bright rose ; medium size ; lower petals 
rather long. 
The Derby (Seymour), 1846. — Deep rose, 
top petals with small dark irregular cloud ; 
size large ; indifferent. 
The Oaks (Seymour), 1846. — Blush rose, 
top petals with a dark veiny spot and broad 
edge of rose ; indifferent. 
The Peri (Lyne), 1846. — Rose pink, with 
a purplish tinge ; top petals with a dark veiny 
spot, surrounded by a belt of crimson, and 
edged with pink ; centre white ; size large ; 
form and texture good, but a little uneven. 
Veritas (Miller), 1846.— White, top petals 
with a purple veiny cloud ; coarse looking. 
Vista (Miller), 1846. — Blush, top petals 
with a dark cloud and narrow edge of pink. 
Volgius (Miller), 1846. — Flesh colour, top 
petals with a dark veiny cloud, edged with 
rose ; centre pale ; size average ; form good, 
even. Obtained a certificate from the Royal 
Botanic Society. 
BRITISH T-LANTS. 
THE GENTJ8 TIIAL1CTUUJI. 
Character. — Calyx, petaloid,* of four or 
five segments, very deciduous. Petals none. 
Stamens numerous. caries four to fifteen. 
Carpels, stalked, single-seeded, not bursting, 
without awns. — Caulescent, herbaceous plants, 
with yellow fasciculate roots, and Jistular 
stem, compound leaves, and juuiiclcd flowers. 
There are four British species. 
" I'i laloid signifies, rcscml ling a petal, 
* Stamens pendulous. 
Th. alpiniim, Linnasus — Alpine Meadow 
Rue. Stem simple, almost naked ; flowers in 
a simple terminal raceme; pedicels reflexed in 
fruit ; carpels shortly stalked, curved at the 
end. 
Thalictrum alpinum. 
An herbaceous perennial, growing from 
three to six inches high ; stem quite smooth, 
nearly leafless ; leaves twice ternate, with 
roundish wedge-shaped segments, deeply cre- 
Thnli'tntm mintlt. 
nateor lobed, mostly radical, on long stalks; in- 
llori'scence, a simple terminal raceme ; flowers 
small, distant, each on a slender pedicel, 
