Langley, Herts, and Wrotham, Kent. Hudson. (Near Abbot's Langley. Mr. G. Anderson. Eng. Fl. E.) P. May.

A. APENNI'NA. Flower solitary: seeds pointed, without tails: leafits snipt: petals spear-shaped, numerous.

Curt.-(E. Bot. 1062. E.)-Clus. i. 254. 2—Dod. 434. 2.

(In foliage resembling A. nemorosa, but rather more hairy. Petals bright blue; sometimes elliptical, twelve to sixteen. E.)

BLUE MOUNTAIN ANEMONE. Woods and shady places, rare. Wimbledon Wood. Mr. Rand. Near Harrow on the Hill. Mr. Du Bois. Luton Hoe, Bedfordshire. Mr. Knowlton. Dill. Near Berkhamstead, Herts. Mr. Goodall. (These are, it must be acknowledged, somewhat suspicious stations. It is of very general occurrence in Italy, but not even found in Switzerland. E.) P. April.

CLEM'ATIS.+

Cal. none: Petals four, rarely five or six, valvular, or revolute at the edges: Styles permanent: Seeds numerous, caudate: Receptacle capitate.

C. VITAL'BA. Leaves winged: leafits heart-shaped: stem climbing. (E. Bot. 612. E.)—Curt. 244-Jacq. Austr. 308-Fuchs. 97-Trag. 818J. B. ii. 125. 1-Lonic. 1. 210. 1-Pet. 40. 12-Matth. 957-Clus. i. 122. 2-Dod. 404. 1-Lob. Obs. 345. 2, and Ic. i. 626. 1-Ger. Em. 886. 1Ger. 739. 1-Park. 383. 1-J. B. ii. 125. 2-Pet. 40. 11.

Stem extending ten to twenty feet, striated, woody. Leaves opposite, on leaf-stalks; as are the leafits. The leaf-stalks twine about whatever they can lay hold of, and thus support the plant. Fruit-stalks branched, with triple divisions, woolly, from the bosom of the leaves. (Panicles forked, downy, bearing numerous sweet-scented flowers. E.) Petals green on the outside, cream-coloured within, thick, reflexed, scored, woolly. Styles becoming very long, slender, crooked, and covered with fine silky hairs; (forming elegant pensile tufts, which towards autumn repose on the hedges in profuse masses, enlivening the roadside after flowers have vanished. E.)

TRAVELLER'S JOY. VIRGIN'S BOWER. Hedges and shady places, espe cially in calcareous soil, (thriving even amidst rocks and loose stones. E.) Common in the southern and western counties, but I have not observed it north of Worcestershire. (The elegant profusion with which it ascends lofty trees, and even rocks, on the southern shore of the Isle of Wight, must excite the admiration of every traveller. On the Ballast Hills at St. Anthony's and Willington Quay, Northumberland. Winch

(This is at least as worthy of the florist's attention as some other species. Its elegant blue flowers will prove ornamental to the shrubbery or wilderness. E.)

+(From xλɛμ¤, xλnμaтos, a vine twig, or tendril; from its climbing or clasping propensity. E.)

(Thus named by Gerard in 1597. "Traucilers Joie, as decking and adorning waies and hedges, where people travell: Virgin's Bower, by reason of the goodly shadowe which they make with their thick bushing and climing: as also for the beautie of the flowers, and the pleasant scent or savour of the same:" and, by country people, Old Man's Beard, from the hoary appearance of the silky, elongated styles. The trivial name from Vitis alba, white vine. E.)

Guide; (but almost equally improbable that these plants should grow truly wild there, as in Scotland. E.) S. July-Aug. THALIC'TRUM. Cal. none: Petals four or five: Capsules many, rather beaked, (but ecaudate. E.)

T. ALPI'NUM. Stem unbranched, almost naked: bunch simple, terminal.

Fl. Dan. 11-Lightf. 13. 1, at p. 266-E. Bot. 262-Pet. 71. 72—H. Ox. ix. 20. 14-Boerh. Ind. Alt. p. 44.

A delicate little plant, scarcely a span high. Petals four, whitish, acute. Flowers on crooked fruit-stalks. Root-leaves compound, on long leafstalks. (Leafits roundish, crenate or lobed, dark-green, and shining above. E.) Stem in very luxuriant specimens with one nearly sessile leaf. Stamens about twelve, and Pistils eight, but variable. ALPINE RUE-WEED. Moist rocks and on the sides of alpine rivulets in Scotland and Wales. On Ben Lomond. Dr. Hope. (On Malghyrdy, Ben Teskerney, and Craig Cailleach. Mr. Brown. Cronkley Fell, Durham. Mr. Robson. E.) P. June.†

T. FLA'VUM. Stem furrowed, leafy: leafits acute, trifid: panicle much branched, upright, compact: flowers erect.

(E. Bot. 367. E.)-Kniph. 5-Fl. Dan. 939-Morris Umb. 12. 2—H. Ox. .ix. 20. row 2. 1-Lob. Obs. 508. 3. and Ic. ii. 56. 1—Park. 264. 1-Pet. 71. 9-Ger. 1067. 1—J. B. iii. 486.

Root yellow. Petals four, cream-coloured.

Stamens twenty-four. Pistils ten to sixteen. Leafits, the lower irregular, sometimes wedge-shaped,

* (Astringent, corrosive and diuretic. An infusion has been recommended in dropsy. Swediaur. The branches are sufficiently tough to make withs for faggots, for which purpose it is always used in the woods where it can be procured. Besides the claspers with which it is furnished, the very leaves have a tendency to twine around plants. The hairy plumes growing in clusters exhibit in winter a singular and beautiful appearance over the tops of bushes, hedges, &c. It is particularly well adapted for covering arbours and bowers in pleasure grounds, being of rapid growth and hardy. "The tubes, lymph-ducts, and airvessels of this plant, (represented in Pl. iv. f. 2.) appear in a common magnifier beautifully arranged, being large, and admitting the air freely to circulate through them. Our village boys avail themselves of this circumstance, cut off a long joint from a dry branch, light it, and use it as their seniors do the tobacco pipe; hence they call it Smoke-wood. The pores are well seen by drawing some bright-coloured liquor into them." Journ. Nat. p. 110. The long feathery down attached to the seed may often be found at the entrance of holes made by mice; probably dragged there as a valuable material for their nests; as may be the seeds themselves, (though small, abundant), no unimportant accession to the winter store; where

"Sæpe exiguus mus

Sub terris posuitque domos atque horrea fecit." Virg. Georg. i. 181.

"Often the little mouse

Illudes our hopes; and safely lodged below

Hath formed his granaries."

In France common beggars, to excite compassion, produce ulcers by applying the juice to the skin; and the twigs are there used to make bee-hives, baskets, &c., possibly in a warmer climate growing even larger and stronger than with us. E.)

↑ (This plant is subject to a minute parasite, which, under the microscope, appears beautiful and interesting; Ecidium Thalictri of Grev. Scot. Crypt. 4; "growing on the under surface of the leaf in clusters of a roundish form; peridia oblong-cylindrical, bright orange; the mouth paler, and bursting irregularly." E.)

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; Troed y 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-Fl. Dan. 732-Kniph. 5-E. Bot. 11-Dod. 58. 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 upright. Woodw. (Stem nearly upright, about a foot high, crooked, furrowed, leafy. Lower-leaves large, spreading. Petals four, elliptic, glaucous-purple. Seeds furrowed: Fl. Brit. acuminate at each end. De Cand. E.)

LESSER RUE-WEED. (Welsh: Arianllys bychan. E.) Moist mountainous meadows in a calcareous soil. About Newmarket; Linton, and borders 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 Ingleton, 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. MAJUS. Leaves with many divisions: leafits ternate, glaucous beneath: flowers pendulous: flowering branches axillary, to or three together: (stipulæ 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 represent 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. Pistils 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.)

rise singly, and the leafits are of a lighter green above. This plant is also much more branched and one third taller. Jacq. Roots remarkably yellow. Anders.

In the specimen now before me, which was sent by Mr. Robson of Darlington, 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.) Discovered 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 Holderness. 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.

ADO NIS. Cal. five leaves: petals five or more: nect. none :

seeds naked.

A. AUTUMNALIS. Petals about eight, emarginate: fruit egg-cylindrical.

Curt. 135-Kniph. 5—Clus. i. 336. 1-Dod. 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 flowers 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. Cornfields. In the counties round London. Curtis. (About Dublin. Dr. Wade. Corn-fields near the Observatory, Oxford. Sibthorp. Matterley 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.t

(From adwy, pleasing; as the youth beloved by Venus: or according to ancient mythology, 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 bead." Ovid. Doubtless nurtured by the tears wept over the dead body. £.)

+ 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 :

"O fleur, si chère à Cythérée,

Ta corolle fut, en naissant,
Du sang d'Adonis colorée.”,

(A. æstivalis of With. Ed. 3. et seq.; not of Linn. (which is more properly a native of Italy,) proves to be only a starved variety of the above species. Curtis considered that the petals afforded no specific distinction, neither were the seasons discriminative; but rather considered these species to be one and the same, under different circumstances. E.)

RANUNCULUS. Cal. deciduous five, (or three-leaved :) Petals five, (rarely two, three, or eight), with a nectariferous scale or pore within the claw: Styles permanent: Seeds numerous, incrusted.

(1) Leaves undivided.

R. FICARIA. Leaves heart-shaped, angular, smooth, on leaf-stalks: stem single-flowered: flowers with nine petals: calyx with three leaves.

(Curt. N. E.-E. Bot. 584. E.)-Ludw. 52-Fl. Dan. 499-Curt.Blackw. 51-Walc.-Kniph. 1-Fuchs. 867-J. B. iii. 468-Lonic. i. 166. 1-Dod. 49-Lob. Obs. 323. 1, and Ic. i. 593. 2—Ger. Em. 816-Park. 617. 3-Pet. 38. 1—Ger. 669—Matth. 831-Trag. 613.

Root composed of oblong egg or club-shaped tubers. Leaves rather shining, sometimes spotted. Calyr leaves three or four. Petals eight or nine; bright yellow, (with an enamelled gloss. E.) Small egg-shaped germinating bulbs are sometimes found in the bosom of the leaf-stalks. (Nec[ tariferous scale notched. Purt. Stem scarcely half a foot high, nearly upright, leafy, smooth. Flowers pedunculated, upright, solitary, (with age and exposure becoming white, the superficial enamel thus perishing. E.) PILEWORT. LESSER CELANDINE. (Welsh: Llygad ebrill; Bronwys. E.) Ficaria verna. Huds. Meadows, pastures, and hedge-banks, common. P. April.†

Or, perhaps, typical of his fatal rencontre with the wild boar, so feelingly deplored by his mistress:

σε Κεῖται καλὸς "Αδωνις επ ὤρεσι, μηρὸν ὀδόντε
Λευκῶ λευκὸν ὀδόντι τυπείς, καὶ κύπριν ἀνιᾶ
Λεπτὸν ἀποψύχων.”

σε "Αγριον ἄγριον ελκος ἔχει κατα μηρὸν "Αδωνις
Μεῖζον δ' α Κυθέρεια φέρει ποτικάρδιον ἕλκος.”

*Ανθεα δ' ἐξ ὀδύνας ἐρυθαίνεται· ἀδὴ Κυθήρη Πάντας ἀνὰ κνάμως καὶ ἀνὰ πτόλιν οἰκτρὸν ἀείδει.”

σε βάλλε δ' ἐνὶ σεφάνοισι καὶ ἄνθεσι πάντασὺν αὐτῷ,
Ως τῆνος τέθνακε, καὶ ἄνθεα παντ' ἐμαράνθη.” Ε.)

(Diminutive of rana, a frog; though probably not thus appropriated from several species being found in ma: shy places, (the original of Dioscorides, R. Asiaticus, being an inhabitant of dry situations), but rather from the divisions of the leaves bearing an imaginary resemblance to the foot of that reptile. E.)

+ The young leaves of Pilewort may be eaten in the spring along with other pot-herbs. Goats and sheep eat it. Cows and horses refuse it. Curculio dorsalis is found upon it.