^g CALTHA. LCLASS xm. ORDER HI. 



five to ten, tubular, single lipped, with a nectariferous depression above 

 the claw, about as long as the stamens, yellow. Stamens numerous, 

 with slender linear filaments, and oblong two celled anthers. Stigmas 

 numerous, sessile. Capsules numerous, in a round head, cylindrical, 

 pointed, recurved, one celled, follicles opening on the inner side. 

 Seeds numerous, attached to the margins. 



Habitat. Moist mountain pastures; not unfrequent in the North 

 of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



The Globe-flower is a commonly cultivated border flower, and often 

 becomes very double from the expansion of the stamens in petaloid 

 segments. It is nearly allied in its structure to the Hellebores, and is 

 possessed of similar properties, but not so violent. 



GENUS XVII. CALTHA. LINN. Marsh Marigold. 

 Nat. Ord. RANUNCDLA'CE^:. DE CAND. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx petaloid, of from five to many deciduous pieces. 

 Petals wanting. Capsules numerous compressed, spreading, 

 many seeded follicles. "Name from o^aXafioj, a cup." 



1. C. palus'tris, Linn. (Fig. 882.) Common Marsh Marigold. Stem 

 ascending, roundish, heart or kidney-shaped, crenated. 



English Botany, t. 606. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 59. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 220. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 12. 



j3. minor. De Cand. Stem ascending, single flowered. 



English Flora, vol. iii. p. 60. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 12. 



y. radicans. (Fig. 883.) Stem creeping; leaves triangular, heart- 

 shaped, sharply crenated. 



Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 220. C. radicans, Forst. 

 English Botany, Suppl. t. 2175. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 60. 

 Lindley, Synopsis, p. 12. 



Root with fleshy somewhat tuberous fibres. Stem ascending, thick, 

 round, smooth, hollow, leafy, and branched, slightly furrowed. Leaves 

 of a bright cheerful green, paler beneath, the radical ones on long 

 stout round furrowed footstalks, dilated and sheathing at the base, 

 large, roundish, heart-shaped, with large overlapping lobes, quite 

 smooth, and more or less coarsely crenated, the upper ones smaller, 

 sessile, or with short footstalks, mostly kidney-shaped, with spreading 

 lobes, sometimes angular, and sharply crenated. Stipules thin, brown, 

 membranous. Flowers from one to six each, on a round smooth fur- 

 rowed pedicle, from two to three inches long. Calyx of five or more 

 roundish ovate petaloid segments, of a bright yellow colour. Petals 

 wanting. Stamens very numerous, with linear club-shaped filaments, 

 and oblong anthers, of two cells. Capsules from five to ten, cylin- 



