BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Ranunculaccac. 



This is our only kind of Trollius. It is 

 Globe-flower .. , _ 



Trollius Idxus an exceedingly beautiful flower, particu- 

 "Vhite larly when found growing in the snow, or 



Spring near the edge of a field of melting ice, in 



S * high mountains and along the margins of 



glaciers. The handsome, toothed leaves are palmately- 

 iobed or divided,. the lower ones with long leaf -stalks, rich 

 green and glossy and setting, off ,theflowers, which" grow 

 singly at the tips of smooth, rather weak stems, from one to 

 two feet tall, and measure about an inch and a half across. 

 The sepals, from five to seven in number, are large, cream- 

 white, slightly greenish outside, and are the conspicuous 

 part of the flower, for the petals are very small and yellow, 

 so that they resemble stamens. From fifteen to twenty- 

 five of these little petals, in a row, surround the numerous, 

 real stamens and form a beautiful golden center. The 

 fruit is a head, measuring an inch across, composed of 

 eight to fifteen small pods, with beaks, containing many, 

 smooth, oblong seeds. This plant looks very much like 

 an Anemone but it has these small yellow petals and 

 Anemones have none, and the center is larger and brighter 

 yellow and the foliage coarser. 



There are three kinds of Trautvetteria, two American 

 and one Asiatic. 



A handsome plant, with a smooth, pale- 

 False Bugbane . , 

 Trautvetteria green stem, from two to three feet tall, and 

 grandis fine large leaves, prettily cut, smooth and 

 White rather bright green, the lower ones some- 

 Summer times eight i nches acr oss. The white 

 flower clusters are large, very pretty, airy 

 and feathery, consisting of numerous small flowers, with 

 small petal-like sepals, usually four, and no petals, the 

 numerous stamens, with white filaments, being the con- 

 spicuous part and forming a little pompon. The akenes 

 are numerous, inflated and four-angled, and form a head. 

 It is a pity that this attractive plant has such a horrid 

 name. It grows in moist woods at Mt. Rainier and in 

 similar places. 



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