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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
In wet meadows and by the sides of streams, especially in upland 
districts. Rather rare. It occurs in most of the Scottish and Welsh 
counties ; but in England, Derbyshire and Worcestershire appear to 
be the southern limit. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock short. Stem erect, 6 inches to 2 feet high, nearly 
simpie, clothed at the base with wiry fibres, which are really the 
remains of decayed leaf-stalks. Radical leaves on very long stalks, 
pentagonal in outline, divided to the base into 3 primary segments, 
of which the two lateral ones are again so deeply 2-cleft that the leaf 
might almost be termed quinquipartite ; segments deeply cut, and 
the portions into which they are divided bluntly serrate; stem 
leaves on shorter stalks, and the uppermost ones quite sessile, the 
segments narrower and not contiguous. Flowers sub-solitary, ter- 
minal, spheroidal, 1 to 1} inch in diameter, pale but clear yellow in 
colour. Sepals roundish-obovate, very concave. Petals inconspi- 
cuous, linear-strap-shaped, slightly widened upwards, with a long 
claw at the base, at the junction of which with the flat lamina the 
nectariferous pore is situated. Stamens very numerous. Head of 
fruit consisting of several rows of very dark brown follicles. Follicles 
indefinite, sub-cylindrical, curved, transversely wrinkled, furnished 
on the back with a prominent keel, which is continued beyond the 
truncate apex of the carpel in the form of a subulate beak or mucro, 
consisting of the persistent style. Seeds numerous, finely punctate, 
opaque, brownish black. Whole plant glabrous, bright green, the 
under side of the leaves much paler, stem seldom producing more 
than a single flower. 
Globe Flower. 
French, Zrolle Globuleuse. German, Die Kugelranunkel, Trollblume. 
This genus was so called by Conrad Gesner, because of the sphere-like shape of the flower, 
—from trol or trolen, an old German word signifying something round. ‘To ¢ro// or to 
trundle, to sing or send something round, was a word in general use in the sixteenth 
and seventeenth centuries. 
In common with the chief part of the family, the Globe Flower is acrid in its 
qualities. The common people of Westmoreland, Scotland and Sweden consider it a 
sort of festival flower, going in parties to gather it for the decoration of their doors and 
apartments, as well as their persons. It is known in Scotland commonly as the 
Lucken Gowan, i.e. cabbage daisy; and Allan Ramsay, the Scotch poet, in his pretty 
little song beginning “O Katy, wilt ’u gang wi’ me?” says :— 
“ We'll pull the daisies on the green, 
The lucken gowans trae the bog; 
Between whiles lowly we will lean 
And rest upon the velvet fog.” 
