18 RANUXCULACE.E. Thulicfnnn. 



Brunswick and Canarla, north to lat. 67°, west to the hase of the nortliern Rocky jMuun- 



tains, and south to Carolina, Alabama, &c. ; 11. early spring. 



T. debile, Buckl. Fascicled roots tuberous : stems weak and slender or filiform, a span to a 



foot long, 2-4-leaved : leaves mostly twice ternate ; leaflets .small (2 to 8 lines long), roundi.sh : 



panicle loosely few-flowered, slender and racemiform : flowers greenish yellow ; male with 7 



to 11 .stamens with slender filaments shorter than the olilong-linear mucronulato anthers ; 



female with 3 to 9 carpels : stigma.** subulate : akenes sessile and subtended by the marcescent 



calyx, oblong, 6-8-costate.— Am. Journ. Sci. xlv. 175; Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 8; Chapm. 



Fl. 5 ; Leco\ er, 1. c. 139. — Woods and moist prairies, Alabama, Btulclr.i/, N. W. Georgia, 



Chapman, and E. Te.xas, Wrir/ht. Var. TexAnum, Gray (Cat. Coll. Hall, PI. Te.x. 3), is a 



form with firmer stem and thicker smaller leaflets nmch whitened beneath and but 1 to 2^ 



lines iu breadth ; collected ou moist prairies about Houston, Hall. 



■ T. Corni3ti, L. Spec. i. 545. It becomes evident that this name ought to suh.side, as Do 



Oandolle suggested. It rests wholly on the descriptious and figures of Cornuti and of 



Morison, the latter apparently taken from the former; which, though meutioned a-s "in 



Canadensi solo nascitur," was almost certainly figured and described from a plant of the 



European T.af/uileyifolium, L. 



T. KUGOSUM, Ait. Kew. ii. 262, said to be a native of North America, and to have been 

 introduced into cultivation in England by Dr. Fothergill in 1774, has hermaphrodite flowers 

 and is a form of T. (/laucum of Europe. T. discolor, Willd. ace. to Spreng. Pugill. i. 39, is 

 also T. glaucum, and not American. 



6. TRAUTVETTfiRIA, Fisch. & Meyer. {Prof. Ernst Rudolph Traut- 

 vetter, Rus.sia.) — Pereuuial herbs; with iDalmatifid and reticulate-veiny leaves, 

 the radical ample and long-petioled, the few cauline short-petioled or sessile ; the 

 stem branching at summit and bearing loose corymbose cymes of white flowers, 

 the filaments being white and conspicuous in the manner of Thalictvum, the 

 greenish white sepals falling when they open. — Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1835, 

 22 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 37 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 25, t. 1} Hydrastis, Lam. 111. 

 t. 500, not L. — Three species, much alike, the third in Japan and Amur; fl. 

 summer. 



T. palmata, Fiscn. & Meyer, 1. c. Two or three feet high, puberulcnt or glabrous : 

 radical leaves a span to a foot in diameter, 5-1 1-cleft, with lobes irregularly and acutely 

 incised and serrate, or some again 2-3-lobed, extremely and conspicuously reticulate-veiny ; 

 cauline leaves sessile or the lowest petioleil : akenes 2 or 3 lines long, obliquely obovate in 

 outline, tipped with very short style. —Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. 26, & Man. 40.2 

 //yrf;as</,s Caro/inens(s, Walt. Car. 156. //. Canorfens/s, Poir. vSuppl. iii. 71, not L. Cimici- 

 fitga palmata, Michx. Fl. i. 316 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. 1. 1630. Thnllctrum ranunculinum, Muhl. in 

 Willd. Pnum. 585 ; DC. Syst. i. 186. T. palmatum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 674. Actaa palmata, 

 DC. Syst. i. 383. — Moist ground along streamlets, Indiana » and E. Kentucky, and along the 

 Alleghanies from Maryland to Georgia. 



T. grandis, Nftt. Not larger : leaves thinner, inconspicuously reticulate-veined.; cauline 

 usually petioled : akenes smaller, broader and more rounded at base, tipped with a longer 

 style. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 37 ; Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 425 ; Lawson, Rev. Canad. 

 Ranunc. 43. T. palmata, var. occidentalis, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 372. Jrtea pal- 

 mata. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 2C. A. (jrandts, Dietr. Syn. PI. iii. 233. — Woods, W. Idaho 

 and Brit. Columbia to Plumas Co., California, Mrs. Austin ; first coll. by Menzies. 



7. ADONIS, Dill. Pheasant's-eye. (^rfom's, the youth Joved by Venus, 

 and after liis death changed into a flower.) — Caulescent herbs of the Old World; 

 with finely dissected leaves and handsome flowers; a perennial vernal species 



1 Recent literature : E. Huth, Revision, in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 286. 



2 Add Syn. T. CnroHnie'nsis, A. M. Vail, Mem. Torr. Cliib, ii. 42. 



3 Westward to Bcar<lstown, 111.-, 6Vv«- (a thic-kisli-leaved form, the var. coriacea of Huth, 1. c. 288). 



