40 rxANUNCrLACE.E. Caltha. 



* * Scapose or barely one-leavcil, 1-2-flowerecl, erect : sepals -nhite, sometimes bluish : 

 follicles more or less stipitate, pointed with short style. 



C. biflora, r>C. Scape slender: leaves round- reniform, crenate or repand : sepals 6 to 9, 

 ovtU, becoming oblong: follicles at maturity distinctly stipitate. — Syst. i. 310; Hook. Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. i. 22 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 27 ; Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 427. C. lepiosepala, Gray, 

 Troc. Am. Acad. viii. .375; Brew. & "Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 9, mainly. — Damp ground, Alaska 

 to mountains of California, first coll. by Menzies. 



C. leptosepala, DC. 1. c. Stouter: leaves from round-oval or round-obovate to ovate with 

 :<mall and narrow (cordiform or sagittiform) sinus, crenate or repand, tlie nerves at base 

 nearly parallel : sepals 7 to 10, oblong, becoming narrower: follicles obscurely stipitate. — 

 Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 22, 1. 10 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 27 ; Garden, xxx. 340, t. SG.").! C. sar/illata, 

 Torr.' Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 164, not Cav. — Alaska and Washington, and higher Rocky 

 Mountains from Brit. Columbia to N. Nevada, Utah, and S. Colorado; first coll. by Menzies. 



11. TROLLIUS, L. Globe-flower. (Name, a Latinization by Gesner 

 of TrolU from the German venuicular name Trollblume, of which the origin is 

 doubtful.) — Perennial herbs, of the northern temperate zone, glabrous; with 

 palmately cleft and incised or dissected leaves, and large usually solitary flowers 

 terminating simple stems ; fl. in spring and early summer. — Gen. ed. 5, no. 620 ; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. i. 33, t. 11. « 



T. EuROP.^us, L., the true Globe-floavek, which answers to the name in the globular form 



of tlie golden yellow calyx, is cultivated in gardens. 



T. laxus, Salisb. At length a foot or two high : leaves 5-7-parted : sepals .5 or 6, spread- 

 ing, ochroleucous or dull white : petals 15 to 25, inconspicuous, being shorter than the 

 stamens. — Trans. Liun. Soc. viii. 303; Tursh, i?i. ii. G5I , Terr FV N. Y. i. 18. t. 3; Gray, 

 1. c. «Ss Am. Jour. Sci. ."^er. 2, xxxiii. 241 (var. albijiurus) ; Lawsou, 1. c. 70. T. Amerkamis, 

 Muhl. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1791, 172, & Cat. 54; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1988; DC. Syst. 

 i. 313, a much earlier published name, but without character. Gaissenm verna, Kaf. Med. 

 Kep. hex. 2, v. 351, .& in DesV. Jour. Bot. ii. 168 (1809). — Bogs, New Hampshire to Michigan 

 and south to Delaware, also Rocky Mountains from Brit. America to Colorado and Utah, 

 and to the Cascades in Brit. Columbia. 



12. ISOP^RUM, L. QIa-oTTvpov, ancient name of a Fumnria, transferred 

 to the present genus.) — Low perennials (or a foreign one annual), of the 

 northern temperate zone, glabrous, mostly white-flowered, with ternately com- 

 pound leaves ; the primary divisions long-petiolulate in the way of Thalictrum : 

 ours (§ Enemion) apetalous and with white filaments clavellate ; fl. spring -and 

 early summer. — Gen. ed. 2, no. 533 ; DC. Syst. i. 323; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 

 i. 8; Maxim. Diag. PL Asiat. v. 623. Enemion, Raf. Jour. Phys. xci. 70, 

 apetalous species. 



* Flowers scattered, solitary and terminal or opposite the leaves: stems slcuder, a span to 

 a foot high ; mostly with filiform rootstocks. 



I. biternatum, Torr. & Gray. Root of copious slender fibres, some here and there 

 moniliform-thickened : leaflets cuneate-obovate or roundish, commonly 3-lobed : carpels 

 3 to 6, commonly 4, sessile, about 3-ovuled and 2-3-seeded, ovate, divaricate at maturity, 

 subulate-pointed with long persistent style ; seeds smooth, with prominent rhaphe. — Fl. i. 

 660 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 36, t. 12. I, thalldroides (which it much resembles), Short, Cat. PI. 

 Kentucky, 8; Hook. Jour. Bot. i. 187. Enemion hiternalum, Raf. 1. c; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 

 29. — Shady and moist grounds, Ohio^ to Wisconsin and south to Texas. 



I. OCCidentale, Hook. & Arn. Root of thickened fascicled fibres: leaflets cuneate, 2-3- 

 lobed : follicles 5 to 7, elongated-oblong, .sessile, barely spreading, mucronate with short 



1 Vars. rntHtidifoUn k HowelUi, Hnth, 1. c. 68, appear to have only foiin.il value. 



2 f nii^.t.-.i .,r i,n>i.lon, Ontario, Deaitiess, ace to .1. M. Maeonn, Bot. (k\?.. xvi. 2So. 



