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I. RANUNCULACEiE 
3. Anemone rivularis, Buch.-Ham. ; FI. Br. Bid. i. 9. Stem 
1-3 ft., silky pubescent. Radical leaves orbicular, 3-6 in. across, 
3-parted, silky pubescent on both surfaces, deeply lobed and 
sharply toothed. Involucral leaves 3-4 in. long, 3-parted, seg- 
ments lobed, narrow, pointed, sharply toothed. Flowers 1-1^ in. 
diam., white, lower surface tinged with purple. Sepals 5-8, silky 
outside. Ovaries and achenes glabrous, styles hooked. (Fig. 2.) 
Simla ; May, June. — Throughout India on hills above 5000 ft. 
4. Anemone polyanthes, D. Don ; FI. Br. Bid. i. 9. Densely silky. 
Stem 1-2 ft. Radical leaves orbicular, 2-4 in. across, cordate, 
5-7-lobed, segments wedge-shaped, 3-lobed, crenate. Involucral 
leaves 1-2 in., sessile, oblong, 3-lobed, crenate. Umbels many- 
flowered, usually compound. Flowers 1-1 J in. diam., white. 
Sepals about 6. Ovaries and achenes glabrous, flattened, oval ; 
styles straight or hooked. 
Huttoo ; August. — Temperate Himalaya, 10,000-12,000 ft. 
3. THALICTRTJM. The classical name. — Temperate and cold 
northern regions (Britain, Meadow Rue) ; very rare in the Southern 
Hemisphere. 
Perennial, glabrous herbs. Stems erect, rarely partially decum- 
bent, branched. Leaves alternate, base of stalk sheathing, pinnate 
or 2-pinnate, some or all of the pinnules with 3 leaflets ; leaflets 
stalked, orbicular or ovate, more or less distinctly 3-lobed, crenate 
or bluntly toothed, the crenatures often with a minute point, 
rarely entire, lower surface paler than the upper. Flowers small, 
regular, often polygamous, in panicles ; floral leaves alternate, not 
involucrate. Sepals 4-5, imbricate, petal-like, soon falling off. 
Petals none. Stamens numerous, sometimes coloured and pro- 
jecting beyond the calyx. Carpels several or many, sessile or 
shortly stalked, 1-ovuled, style short. Fruit a small head of 
usually ribbed and more or less flattened, rarely terete, achenes ; 
style persistent, curved or nearly straight, tip hooked. 
Thalictrum elegans, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 10, occurs on the Chor and 
possibly on Huttoo. It is an alpine species, rarely growing below 10,000 ft., 
and is easily recognised by its long-stalked achenes, and very small 3 -lobed 
leaflets, scarcely J in. long. 
Carpels shortly stalked. 
Sepals green. Anthers i in. acute. Leaflets up to 
2| in. across 1 . T. neurocarpum. 
Sepals white. Anthers ^ in. 
Flowers large. Sepals ^ in. Anthers blunt . 2. T. pedunculatum.. 
Flowers small. Sepals ^ in. Anthers acute . 3. T. rostellatum. 
Carpels sessile. 
Sepals white. Anthers in. 
Panicle branches few, long. Flowers solitary. 
Sepals^ in. Anthers acute . . . .4. T. saniculce forme - 
Panicle branches many, short. Flowers clustered. 
Sepals in. Anthers blunt . . . .5. T. javanicum. 
Sepals green. Anthers f in., acute . . . .6. T . foliolosum. 
