714. 462.TroUius. 85. RANUNCULACEiE. PL ex. thai, 



Alpine pastures ; perennial ; May to July. 

 Stem 2 feet high, many-flowered ; flowers first pale, then 

 golden yellow; sepales 10 to 15. 



VII. 463. CALTHA. Pliny. Bootes. 



Calyx coloured, 5-sepaled ; sepales nearly orbicular, 

 petal-like; petals 0; sta7nens many; ovaries 5 to 10; ca- 

 mares 5 to 10, compressed, spreading, 1 -celled, many- 

 seeded. — Herbs perennial, quite bald ; roo/5 fibrous: stems 

 cylindrical ; leaves petioled, heartshape, ears not bent in ; 

 flowers terminal, yellow. 



1. Caltha palvslris. Marsh lootes. 

 Stem upright, many-flowered ; leaves heartshape, nearly 



round, erenated ; ears rounded. 



Popiilago, Raii Syn. 272. 



Caltha palustris major, Ger. em. 817, 1. 



Ciiltlia palustris vulgaris simplex, Park. 1213. 



Caltha palustris, Lin. S, P. 784. 



Popiilago palustris-. Scop. Cam. 698. 



Marsh marygold. Bleadow bouts. 



Moist places and liver-sides; perennial; May and June. 



Stems 18 in. high, forked, upright; peduncles furrowed ; 

 dipper leaves nearly sessile ; pet'iole-ears membranaceous, 

 rounded, stipule-like ; flowers large. — Herb in flower sup- 

 posed to make the butter yellow, but is poisonous to cows; 

 nnexpanded flowers pickled and used for capers. 



2. Caltha minor. Small lootes. 

 Stem ascending, 1 -flowered ; leaves heartshape, nearly 



orbicular, crenated; ear.? rounded. 



Populago minor, Tabenitem. Ic. 750. 



Caltha palustris minor, Ds Candolle Syst. Nat. 309,4 /3. 



Moist places by side of rivers ; perennial ; May. 

 Stem simple; leaves, ears, and flowers, half the size of 

 the former. 



3. Caltha radicavs. Rooting lootes. 

 Stem creeping, few-flowered ; leaves triangular, heart- 

 shape, serrate, crenated. 



Caltha radicans, Forstir Tr.Lin. Soc. 8,321. 



Sides of lakes; perennial; May and June. 



Stem rooting at bottom, ascending at tip, few-flowered ; 

 leaves nearly triangular, with a dilated sinus, lower angles 

 obtuse ; upper angle acute ; teeth sharp ; sepales oblong. 



