Descr. Whole plant more or less softly hairy with 
appressed or more or less spreading hairs. ootstock one 
to three inches, creeping, as thick as the little finger or 
less, yellowish. Stem eight to twelve inches high, as thick 
as a crow-quill, erect, one to two-leaved above the middle, 
one to two-fid. Leaves ; radical long-petioled, orbicular in 
outline, five inches broad or less, bright green, copiously 
hirsute, deeply palmately lobed almost to the base; seg- 
ments cuneately obovate, lobulate and crenate-toothed, 
nerves deeply impressed; lower cauline leaf sessile or shortly 
petioled, like the radical but narrower ; uppermost leaf 
greatly reduced, amplexicaul, five-lobed, lobes lanceolate 
entire. Flowers stoutly peduncled, one to two inches 
diameter ; peduncle two to three inches, appressedly, 
hairy. Sepals half inch long or less, oblong, obtuse, — 
spreading, sparsely hirsute, yellow green. Petalsorbicular- - 
obovate, golden yellow; basal scale broad, truncate. 
Stamens very many, filaments longer than the anthers. 
Head of carpels globose. Achenes tumid, glabrous, nar- 
rowed into a strongly hooked puberulous beak not half as 
long as the body.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, Stamens; 3, achene :—all enlarged. 
