676 POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Adonis 
rise singly., and the leafits are of a lighter green above. This plant is also 
much more branched and one third taller. Jacq. Moots remarkably yel¬ 
low. Anders. 
In the specimen now before me, which was sent by Mr. Robson of Darling¬ 
ton, the leaves are trebly winged, the leafits urn-shaped, three-cleft at 
the end ; the petals four, purplish; the stamens fourteen to eighteen, the 
anthers yellow, the pistils from five to seven. (Twice or thrice as large 
as the former in all its parts: leafits often an inch broad. Prof. Hooker 
suspects he has observed intermediate specimens with T. minus . E.) 
(Greater Rue-weed. T. majus. Crantz. Jacq. De Cand. Sm. E.) Dis¬ 
covered by Mr. E. Robson, about two miles from Darlington, in a dry 
exposed situation, among bushes at Baydales ; frequently attaining 
the height of four or five feet. (In Holderaess. Mr. Knowlton. About 
Skipton. Rev. W. Wood. Hedges near Egleston, Yorkshire, side 
of the Tees. Mr. Brunton. Gordale. Mr. S. Woods. Sides of rivulets 
about Salisbury. Dr. Maton. Banks of Ullswater. Mr. J. Woods, jun. 
In a ravine of the Screes, near Wast Water. Mr. Wood. Bot. Guide. 
Gordale Scar, Yorkshire ; near Barnard Castle, and woods at Nunnery, 
by the Eden, Cumberland. Mr. Winch. Banks of Loch Tay and Loch 
Rannoch. Mr. Anderson. E.) P. June—July. 
ADONIS.* Cal . five leaves: petals five or more : nect . none : 
seeds naked. 
A. Autumna'lis. Petals about eight, emarginate: fruit egg-cylin¬ 
drical. 
Curt. 135— Kniph. 5— Clus. i. 336.1— Mod. 260. 3— E. Bot. 308— Lob . Obs. 
150, Ic. i. 283. 2— Ger. Em. 387— Ger, 310. 1— Park.—Par . 291. 5. 
Seeds covered with a thick permanent coat, not opening like a capsule, so 
that they may be considered as naked. The shape of the fruit applies 
to the whole mass of seeds upon the fruit-stalk. Several fiowers on a 
plant. Petals seven or eight ; dark scarlet, almost black at the base, 
concave. ( Anthers deep violet. Leaves triply-wing-cleft, segments 
strap-shaped. Stem upright, branched, scored, six to twelve inches high. 
E.) 
Adonis-flower. Red Maithes, Autumnal Pheasant’s-eye. Corn¬ 
fields. In the counties round London. Curtis. (About Dublin. Dr. 
Wade. Corn-fields near the Observatory, Oxford. Sibthorp. Mat- 
terley Farm, Hampshire, also in corn-fields near Blandford; in Stour 
Paine-field, on the borders of the Camp Down. Pulteney. Occasionally 
about Glasgow. Hopkirk. E.) A. June—July.f 
* (From pleasing ; as the youth beloved by Venus: or according to ancient my¬ 
thology, named after that son of Cinyras, as the flower into which he was metamorphosed 
after the dire catastrophe so deeply lamented by the goddess 
<( —-Where the blood was shed, 
A flower began to rear its purple head.” Ovid. 
Doubtless nurtured by the tears wept over the dead body. £.) 
t* Its beautiful scarlet blossoms have gained it admittance into gardens. (Both the 
French name “ Goute de sang ,” and the more classical “ Adonis,” may equally be traced 
to the sanguineous colour, and globose form of the flowers, especially in an unexpanded 
state; in the latter designation fabled to have sprung from the blood of that favourite 
f< O fleur, si chfere a Cyth^rde, 
Ta corolle fut, en naissant, 
Du sang d'Adonis colorde,” 
