BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Ranancalaceae. 



Globe-flower 



Trollius Idxus 

 White 

 Spring 

 U.S. 



This is our only kind of Trollius. It 

 an exceedingly beautiful flower, partic 

 larly when found growing in the snow, 

 near the edge of a field of melting ice, 

 high mountains and along the margins 

 glaciers. The handsome, toothed leaves are palmatel 

 lobed or divided, the lower ones with long leaf -stalks, ri 

 green and glossy and setting off the flowers, which grc 

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

 two feet tall, and measure about an inch and a half acra 

 The sepals, from five to seven in number, are large, creai 

 white, slightly greenish outside, and are the conspicuc 

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

 so that they resemble stamens. From fifteen to twenl 

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

 real stamens and form a beautiful golden center. T 

 fruit is a head, measuring an inch across, composed 

 eight to fifteen small pods, with beaks, containing mar 

 smooth, oblong seeds. This plant looks very much li 

 an Anemone but it has these small yellow petals a 

 Anemones have none, and the center is larger and brigh 

 yellow and the foliage coarser. 



There are three kinds of Trautvetteria, two Americ I 

 and one Asiatic. 



A handsome plant, with a smooth, 

 green stem, from two to three feet tall, all 

 fine large leaves, prettily cut, smooth a I 

 rather bright green, the lower ones so 

 times eight inches across. The whl? 

 flower clusters are large, very pretty, 

 and feathery, consisting of numerous small flowers, w 

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

 numerous stamens, with white filaments, being the c<f 

 spicuous part and forming a little pompon. The akei 

 are numerous, inflated and four-angled, and form a he, 

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

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

 similar places. 



False Bugbane 



Trautvetttria 



grdndis 



White 



Summer 



West 



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