TROLLIUS. 



flowers are of brilliant gold, loosely opening, instead of folding into a 

 ball, with the tiny potals standing above the stamens in a different 

 stylo and proportion from that of T. altaicus. There is a yet larger 

 form of this that goes out in gardens under the name of T. giganteus, 

 and also as T. Fortunei or T. Loddigesii. 



T. aurantiacus. Seo under T. hybridus. 



T. chinensis is another development from further Asia, growing 

 2 feet high, with flowers of dark yellow. 



T. dahuricus is taller still, and more light and vivid in colour. 



T. dschungaricus has all the habit of T. europaeus, but the golden 

 globes are tinged with mahogany brown on the outside. 



T. europaeus. — Seo above, at the head of the family. There are 

 endless varieties of this plant, and many of those recognised as species 

 are little more than local developments. Conspicuous is one called 

 T. e. napellifolius, which is taller and larger than the type, very free 

 in blossom, with globes of glowing orange yellow. A paler one is 

 nattered with the title of T. e. albiflorus, and gardens also distinguish 

 a form which they call T. e. grandijlorus. In nature the species, so 

 unendingly abundant, seems to vary extraordinarily little in habit or 

 colour. In many millions of many seasons I have only once seen a 

 variation, into pale soft butter-colour, at the edge of citron meadows- 

 ful of the type, below the Little Mont Cenis. 



T. hybridus is the all-embracing name of the innumerable crosses 

 between the last and the looser-flowered and more richly orange 

 Asiatics. There has resulted a long chain of superb intermediate 

 plants, of 2 or 3 feet high, most generous of large and usually rather 

 lax flowers, in oranges and gold of varying intensity. All these are 

 praised adequately in catalogues under the names there given them, of 

 Excelsior, Orange Globe, Fire Globe, &c. &c, and the strain also holds 

 the enlarged and half -orbicular Globe-flower of deeper colouring which 

 is often called T. caucasicus ; as well, no doubt, as many another that 

 sometimes figures as a species. 



T. japonicus, like T. pumilus, has the flower like a great golden 

 buttercup, widely open, with five ample golden sepals extinguishing 

 the almost invisible woe petals inside. 



T. laxus=T. americanus. 



T. Ledebourii is a plant of 18 inches, with yellow blossoms which aro 

 not globes, but have five broad sepals widely open, and, inside, the 

 little insignificant petals standing up above the stamens. 



T. lilacinus (also called Hegemone lilacina) is the jewel of all — a 

 treasure from high damp places on the mountain tops of the Altai. 

 It is a most lovely small thing, about 4 inches high, with the lobod and 



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