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10. Triumfetta Rhombifolia ; Rhomb-leaved Triumfetta. 

 Leaves rhomboid, the upper ones lanceolate-ovate; flowers 

 in axillary tufts. This is an upright branching shrub, three 

 feet in height, the whole, especially the seeds, having an 

 unpleasant smell. The French call it Cousin, on account ol 

 the capsules adhering to the clothes. Native of the West 

 Indies. 



11. Triumfetta Annua ; Annual Triumfetta. Leaves ovate, 

 acute, undivided, sometimes, but rarely, lobed. This is an 

 annual plant, rising about two feet and a half high, and 

 sending out several branches on every side. The flowers 

 come out in long loose spikes at the top of the plant; they 

 are small and yellow. Native of India. 



Trixis; a genus of the class Syngenesia, order Polygamia- 

 Necessaria. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : common, 

 imbricate, ovate; scales eight to ten, oblong, acuminate, 

 convex, almost equal ; outer somewhat keeled, membranous 

 at the tip. Corolla: compound; corollets hermaphrodite, 

 numerous, in the disk ; females fewer, shorter, in the ray ; 

 proper in the hermaphrodites funnel-form, with a very short 

 tube, and an erect five-cleft border; in the females funnel- 

 form, with a compressed tube and a trifid border; the hinder 

 segment larger, the anterior ones smaller. Stamina : in the 

 hermaphrodites, filamenta five, length of the tube ; anthera 

 cylindrical, above the border. Pistil : in the hermaphro- 

 dites, germen linear, pubescent; style filiform, length of the 

 stamina, bifid at the tip; stigmas reflexed: in the female flo- 

 rets, germen oblong ; style filiform, divided at the top ; stig- 

 mas reflexed. Pericarp: none; calix unchanged, converg- 

 ing. Seeds: in the hermaphrodites often abortive; in the 

 females ovate, somewhat compressed, margined, convex be- 

 hind, blunt at the tip, subtrigonal, hirsute; down none. Re- 

 ceptacle: chaffy; chaffs oblong, acute, concave, membranace- 

 ous. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Corollets of the ray trifid. 

 Seeds : hairy at the tip, without any down. Receptacle: chaffy. 

 The species are, 



1. Trixis Terenbinthinacese. Leaves ovate, serrulate, his- 

 pid, hirsute beneath; flowers corymbed. Stem shrubby, two 

 yards high, rough ; with opposite, round, leafy branches, 

 rough with very dense, short, rigid hairs, as are also the 

 footstalks ; flowers numerous, small, white. Native of Ja- 

 maica. 



2. Trixis Aspera. Leaves ovate, attenuated at the base 

 and tip, tooth-serrate, rough ; branches silky ; flowers pani- 

 cled. Native of the West Indies. 



3. Trixis Erosa. Leaves broad, ovate, gash-serrate, wrin- 

 kled, rugged, pals beneath; branches bristly. Native of Do- 

 minictf and St. Christopher's. 



Trollius; a genus of the class Polyandria, order Poly- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : none. Corolla: 

 petals about fourteen, subovate, deciduous, three in each 

 outer row, in the inmost five; nectaries nine, linear, flat, 

 curved in, perforated at the base inwards. Stamina: fila- 

 menta numerous, bristle-shaped, shorter than the corolla; 

 antherae linear, erect. Pistil: germina numerous, sessile, 

 columnar; style short; stigmas mucronate, shorter than the 

 stamina. Pericarp : capsules numerous, collected into a 

 head, ovate, with a point, curved back, bursting at the inner 

 edge, one-celled. Seeds: numerous, obovate, angular, po- 

 lished, inserted along the inner edge of each valve. ES- 

 SENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix : none. Petals: about four- 

 teen. Capsules : numerous, ovate, many-seeded. The 



species are, 



1. Troliius Europeeus ; European. Globe-flower, Globe Ra- 

 nunculus, Globe Crowfoot, or Lucken-gowan's. Corollas con- 

 verging; nectaries length of the stamina. Root perennial, 



fibrous, black; stalk two feet high, smooth, hollow, branching- 

 towards the top. Each branch is terminated by one large yel- 

 low flower, without a calix, and shaped like that of Crowfoot. 

 Leaves many-parted, pinnatifid, gashed, smooth ; the lower 

 ones on long petioles. Native of the North of Europe, Car- 

 niola, Dauphiny, Piedmont, and Siberia. It is found in the 

 northern counties of England, also in Scotland and Wales, 

 on the sides of mountains, and in mountainous meadows and 

 moist shady places. In the southern parts of Great Britain 

 it only occurs in gardens. It flowers in the end of May and 

 beginning of June. This splendid flower, says Liuneus, 

 adorns the pavements of the rustics on festival days. Allan 

 Ramsay, in his Gentle Shepherd, makes the young laird wish 

 to gather these flowers to weave a chaplet for his Katie's 

 brow; and in Westmoreland this plant is collected with great 

 festivity by the youth of both sexes, about the beginning of 

 June; at which time it is usual to see them return from the 

 woods in the evening, laden with it, to adorn their doors and 

 cottages with wreaths and garlands. Part the roots at the 

 end of September, when the leaves are beginning to decay, 

 planting them at a foot distance, in a shady situation and a 

 moist soil. They should not be parted into too small divi- 

 sions, nor oftener than once in three years. 



2. Trollius Asiaticus ; Asiatic Globe-flower. Corollas 

 spreading ; nectaries longer than the stamina. This differs 

 from the former species in having larger leaves, of a lighter 

 green colour, with fewer and larger segments, resembling 

 those of Yellow Monk's Hood. The petals spread open, 

 not converging at their points, like those of the first species. 

 The corolla, stamina, and nectaries, are of an elegant saffron 

 colour. Native of Siberia, flowering in May and June. It 

 may be increased and treated like the first species, but 

 requires a moister soil, and a shady situation, but not under 

 the drip of trees: it thrives best on a north border, where 

 the soil is loamy, but not too stiff. In a dry soil, or much 

 exposed to the sun, the plants frequently die in summer, but 

 may be maintained in a flourishing state by covering the 

 ground with Moss. It should be planted in a composition 

 of loam and bog earth, in a north border, taking care that it 

 does not suffer from want of watering in dry summers. It 

 may be raised from seeds, which frequently ripen on strong 

 healthy plants. As the flowers of both these plants make a 

 pretty appearance, they deserve a place in every good gar- 

 den, especially as they will thrive in moist shady places, 

 where few better plants will live. 



3. Trollius Laxus. Petals five, obtuse, patulous; nectaries 

 shorter than the stamina ; flowers yellow. Grows in shady 

 wet places, on the mountains of New York and Pennsylvania, 

 flowering in May. 



Troptsoltim ; a genus of the class Octandria. order Mo- 

 nogyma. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth one- 

 leafed, five-cleft, from upright spreading, acute, coloured, 

 deciduous ; the two lower segments narrower, horned at the 

 back with an awl-shaped, straight, longer nectary. Corolla: 

 petals five, roundish, inserted into the divisions of the calix ?; 

 two upper sessile, the others lower, with oblong ciliate claws. 

 Stamina: filamenta eight, awl-shaped, short, declining, un- 

 equal; antheree erect, oblong, rising. Pistil: germen round- 

 ish, three-lobed, striated; style simple, erect, length of the 

 stamina; stigma trifid, acute. Pericarp: berries or nuts 

 somewhat solid, three, on one side convex, grooved, and 

 striated, on the other angular. Seeds: three, gibbous on one 

 side, angular on the other, roundish, grooved, and striated. 

 ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix : one-leafed, with a necta- 

 riferous spur. Petals: four, unequal. Nuts: three, coria- 

 ceous. The species are, , 



