60 POLYANDRIA— POLYGYRIA. Caltba. 



t. 40. Forst. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 8. 323. Hook. Scot. 176. De- 



Cnnd. Syst. v. 1 . 308. FL Dan. t. 668. Lob. Ic. 594./. Dod. 



Pempt. 598./. 

 C. major. Mill. Diet. ed. 8. n. 1 , 

 C. n. 1188. Hull. Hist. V. 2. 82. 

 C. palustris major. Ger. Em. 81 7./. 

 C. Vergilii. Trag. Hist. 142. f. 

 Populago. Ra'd Sijn. 272. 

 Tussilago altera, sive Farfug'mm. Matth. Falgr. v.2. 200. f. Cavier. 



Epit.594.f. 



jo. DeCand.Sijst.v.]. 309. 



Caltlia minor. Mill. Diet. ed. 8. n. 2. 



Populago minor. Tahern. Kreuterb. 1 128./ " 7c. 750./" 



In marshy meadows, and about the margins of ponds, rivers, and 

 brooks, every where. 



/3. In similar situations, but much less frequent. Sent from Cum- 

 berland to Mr. Forster, in whose garden it remains unaltered. 



Perennial. March, Jpril. /3. Maij. 



Root thick, and somewhat tuberous, with many simple fibres. Stetn 

 12 or IS inches high, erect, round, hollow, leafy, branched, fur- 

 rowed. Leaves variously heart-shaped, crenate ; the lowermost 

 on long, somewhat triangular, /oo<sia/A:s, largest, most rounded, 

 and with blunter notches ; upper nearly sessile, alternate, more 

 triangular, acutely crenate. Stipulas membranous, withering. 

 Fl. several, from 3 to 5, large, bright yellow, on alternate soli- 

 tary stalks. Pet. 5, an inch long, roundish-oval. The flower- 

 buds pickled serve for Capers, which they resemble, except in 

 having numerous germens. A double variety is frequent in 

 gardens. 



jS is in every part but half the size of the common sort 3 the stems 

 are more reclining, each bearing 1, 2, or 3 /lowers, whose petals 

 are but half an inch long, yet I can find no decisive specific cha- 

 racter. Possibly this variety may render the following species 

 somewhat doubtful ; but they require careful examination in a 

 wild state. The cut of Tabernsemontanus does not at all re- 

 semble our /3 in the foliage. 



2. C. radicans. Creeping Marsh-marigold. 



Stem reclining, creeping. Leaves triangular, somewhat 

 heart-shaped, sharply crenate. 



C. radicans. Forst. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 8. 324. t. 1 7. Comp.ed. i. 

 98. Engl.Bot.v.3].t.2\75. Jit. Hort.Kew. ed.2. v.3. 36\. 

 DeCand. Stjst.v. 1.309. 



By the sides of lakes and rivulets in Scotland. 



First observed in Scotland by the late Mr. Dickson. Near Forfar. 



Mr. G. Don. About the Pentland hills, and in Roslyn woods ; 



Dr. Greville : more common in some spots near Edinburgh, 



