
POLYANDRIA, POLYGYNIA. 23 
Marsh Marigold. Meadow Cowslip. 
A very fine plant, with deep green leaves and bright deep 
yellow shining flowers. Whole plant has the habit of Ranun- 
culus. In a swampy wood, about half a mile or three quarters 
due west of the three miles-stone, on the Germantown road. 
Very rare. I have not found it elsewhere. Perennial. April. 
260. HEPATICA. Willd. enum. (Ranunculacee.) 
Calix 3-leaved. Petals 6 to 9. Seeds naked. 
1. H. leaves three-lobed, very entire, lobes round- triloba. 
obtuse, scape one-flowered.— Willd. is coe 
Anemone Hepatica, Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1273. 
Icon. Fl. Dan. 610. Bot. Mag. 10. 
Three-lobed Liver-wort. 
One of the earliest blooming spring plants, often flowering 
before the leaves have come up, and while snow is yet on the 
ground. Flowers purple, rarely white. In woods, under de- 
cayed and fallen leaves, on rich soil. Common. Perennial. 
March till May. 
261. RANUNCULUS, Gen. pl. 953. (Ranunculacee.) 
Calix 5-leaved. Petals 5; having the inner 
side of each claw furnished with a melli- 
ferous pore, often membranaceously mar- 
gined or covered by a separate scale. Seeds 
naked, numerous.— Nutt. 
i. R. smooth; stem declinate, leaves narrow-lan- Fiammula. 
ceolate, acute. entire and denticulate; the lower 
ones petiolate, peduncles terminal, axillary, 
one-flowered ; calices subreflexed.—Willd. and 
Pursh. 
Icon. Fl. Dan. 575. Engl. Bot. 387. 
About a foot or two feet high, leaning obliquely from the 
root. Leaves of a delicate blueish-green. Flowers small, yel- 
