POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Thalicteum, 675 
with three clefts; or oval, entire, with a lobe on one side; the upper 
spear-shaped, entire, or with three clefts. Woodw. (Stems three feet 
high, upright, angular, little branched, panicled at the head, with very- 
numerous flowers. Stigmas heart-shaped, short. Seeds few, furrowed. 
E-) 
Var. 2. Lobes of the leaves narrower, and more wrinkled. Lightf. 
H. Ox. ix. 20. 3. 
Meadow Rue-weed. (Welsh: Arianllys cyffredin; Troedy barcud. E.) 
Moist meadows, pastures, and banks of rivers. P* June.? 
T. mi'nus. (Leaves triply winged: leafits trifid, glaucous: panicle 
spreading, pendulous : stem flexuose or zigzag, divaricate. E.) 
Jacq. Austr. 419— FI. Dan. 732— Kniph. 5— E.Bot. 11— Dod. 5 8.2— Lob. 
Obs. 508. 2. and Ic. ii. 56. 2 —Ger. Em. 1251. 2— Park. 264. 5—H. Ox. 
ix. 20. 12— Pet. 71. 10 —Ger. 1067. 2 —J. B. iii. 487. 3—Pet. 71. 11. 
Leafits broad and blunt, or wedge-shaped, varying greatly in size and shape. 
Panicle branched, flowers few, scattered, at first nutant, afterwards up¬ 
right. Woodw. (Stem nearly upright, about a foot high, crooked, fur¬ 
rowed, leafy. Lower-leaves large, spreading. Petals four, elliptic, glau¬ 
cous-purple. Seeds furrowed: FI. Brit, acuminate at each end. De 
Cand. E.) 
Lesser Rue-weed. (Welsh: Arianllys by chan. E.) Moist mountainous 
meadows in a calcareous soil. About Newmarket; Linton, and bor¬ 
ders of Gogmagog Hills, Cambridgeshire, and Mountains in Malham 
and Settle, Yorkshire. Ray. Cheddar Cliffs, Somersetshire. Dr. 
Ford. Gloddaeth, Carnarvonshire. Pennant. Marham, Norfolk. Mr. 
Crowe. Skirreth Wood, near Xngleton, and about Kilnsay, Yorkshire. 
Curtis. Links of Montrose, also between Caroline Park and Cramond, 
near Edinburgh. Mr. Brown. (About Queen’s Ferry. Mr. Winch. 
Above the beach at Red-wharf, &c. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) 
P. July—Aug. 
T. ma^jus. Leaves with many divisions : leafits ternate, glaucous be¬ 
neath : flowers pendulous: flowering branches axillary, to or 
three together : (stipulae crescent-shaped, notched. Sm. E.) 
Jacq. Austr. 420— (E. Bot. 611. E.) 
(Smith observes that Dod. 58. f. 1 . and Ger. Em. 1251 .f. 1 . rather repre¬ 
sent this plant than T.flavum. E.) 
Root perennial, throwing up one or two stems every year. Stems crooked, 
two or three feet high, cylindrical, scored, purplish green, leafy, panicled. 
Branches several from the same point, of different lengths. Leafits small, 
egg-shaped or roundish, two or three-cleft towards the end; rather 
glaucous above, quite so underneath. Flowers sweet, pendent. Petals 
four, purplish green. Stamens fifteen to twenty. Anthers yellow. Pis¬ 
tils four to seven. Seeds spear-shaped, furrowed, acute. Distinguished 
from T. minus by its always sending out two or three branches from the 
same knot on the stem or larger branches, and by the leafits being dark 
green above and glaucous underneath; whilst in T. minus the branches 
* A cataplasm, made of the leaves, has been known to give relief in sciatica. The root 
dyes wool yellow. Cows, horses, goats and, sheep eat the plant. Swine are not fond <of it- 
Linn. (Acrid and vesicatory, E,) 
