Class X.— DICOTYLEDONES. 
Division I. — Thalamiflorae. 
RANUNCULACE/E. 
Clematis (L.). 
C. Vitalba. (L.). Fig. 1. Travellers’ Joy. Denizen. Shrub. VII. 
Hedges and thickets. Occasionally found, but always intro- 
duced, or an escape from cultivation. 
C. A large trailing shrub on, the sandhills between Wallasey 
and Leasowe (Missw.; Dr. e.). 
F. Several creeping bushes among the stones on the East 
Cop at Queensferry (r.b.). 
Thalictrum (L.). Meadow-Rue. 
T. minus (L.). Fig. 2. Lesser Meadow-Rue. Native. P. VI, VII. 
a. maritimum {Syme). 
Sandhills and claybanks. Rare arid local. 
C. Little Eye and Hilbre (H.). Sandhills close to the 
shore at West Kirby (f.m.w.). At intervals along the river 
bank between West Kirby and Heswall (j.e.b.). 
Note. — The plant growing on the claybanks of the River Dee differs 
considerably in habit from that found at Hilbre and West Kirby, and is 
probably T. montanum ( Wallroth ). It agrees also with T. calcareum (Jordan). 
T. flavum (L.). Fig. 3. Great or Yellow Meadow-Rue. Native. 
P. VI, VII. 
Wet fields and ditch sides. Frequent. 
L. Banks of River Mersey below Speke Hall. Between 
Lydiate Railway Station and River Alt. 
C. Ditches about Leasowe and Great Meols, and in the 
Langfields between Hoylake and West Kirby. Between Ince 
and River Gowey. Ditch sides below Helsby. 
Anemone (L.). 
A. nemorosa (L.). Fig. 4. Wood Anemone or Wind Flower. 
Native. P. III-V. 
Woods and bushy places, common. In pastures, occasional. 
