CANADIAN EANUNCULACEJD. 71 



Torr. & Gr., Fl. N. A., I., p. 28. Lawson, Eauunc. Canad., p. 45. Watson, Bibl. Index, p. 

 21. Macouu, Cat., No. 64. 



T. pentapetalus. Herb. Banks. (DC.) 



T. decapetalus. Herb. Bose. (DC.) 



Gaissenia verna. Eaf., Jonr. Bot., H., p. 168. (1808.) 



Alpine rivulets on the eastern declivity of the Rocky Mountains, between lat. 52' and 

 55°. — Drumviond. Michell Creek, British Columbia.— Dr. G. M. Dawson, in Herb. Canad. 

 Survey. Top of the Eocky Mountain.s, Kootauie Pass ; Coldwater Eiver, Cascade Moun- 

 tains, British Columbia. — Dr. G. M. Daicson. Mountains of Cariboo. — Macomi. 



Pennsylvania and New York, on moist shady hills. — Pitrsh. In deep swamps, in New 

 Hampshire to Delaware and Michigan. — Gray. 



There is also an open-flowered Trollius in Siberia, etc., T. Asiaticus. In T. Europœus 

 the sepals are connivent, forming together a round ball, hence the name G-lobe Flower. 



Genus X.— COPTIS, Salisbari/. 



Salisbury, in Trans. Linn. Soc, London, VIII., p. 305. Bentham and Hooker, Genera 



Plantarum, I., p. 8. 

 List of species : — 



1. C. trifolia. | 2. C. asplenifolia. 



1. — CoPTis TRIFOLIA, Salisbiiri/. 



Stem short, with bright yellow fibrous roots spreading from its base. Leaves long- 

 stalked of three wedge-shaped, slightly lobed, finely toothed, shining, evergreen leaflets. 

 Flower solitary, on a naked stalk 3 or 4 inches high. Petals very small, cucuUate obconic, 

 white. Stamens with yellow anthers. 



Coptis trifolia. Salisbury, Trans. Linn. Soc, YIII., p. 805. Pursh, FL, II., p. 390. DC. 

 Syst. Nat., I., p. 322. Fl. Dan., t. 1519. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., I., p. 23. Torr. & Gr , I., p. 

 28. Gray, Gen. 111., p. 38, t. 18. Manual, p. 45. Lange, PI. Grœnl., p. 129. Hook, f., 

 Arct. PL, p. 284. Lawson, Eanunc. Canad., p. 45. Watson, Bibl. Index, p. 12. Macoun, 

 Cat., No. 51. 



Helleborus trifolius. Linn. Amcen. Acad., IL, p. 355, t. 4, f. 18, (1*751.) Sp. Plantarum, 

 p. *784. Kalm, Eesa til N. America, III., p. 3*79, (1*761.) Alton f., Hort. Kew., III., p. 361. 

 Michaux, FL, I., p. 325. Bigelow, Fl. Bost., p. 134. 



Anemone Grcenlandica. Œder, Fl. Danica, IV., t. 566. 



Helleborus trilohus. Lamarck, Encyc. Meth., Bot., III., p. 98. 



Oirysa borealis. Eaf Schm., " N. Y. Med. Eep., V., p. 350." Desv. Jour., Bot., IL, 

 p. 1*70. 



Canada, and thence to lat. 58", in dry, sandy and mossy places. — Hooker. Labrador. 

 3Iorrison (Hook). Toronto, June 2nd, 1882, in fl., not common ; Halifax County, N.S., and 

 throughout Nova Scotia, common in many i3laces in moist woods. — Lawson. Bass Eiver, 

 Kent, N.B. — Prof. Fowler. Hudson Bay Territories, several specimens. — McTavish. St. 

 Augustine, Labrador, 1865. — Rev. D. Sutherland. Opposite Gros Cap, June 15th. — Dr. Pi. 

 Bell. Shore of Lake Medad, Hamilton, Ont., May l*7th, I860. — D)gie. Prescott district, 



