BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Ranunculaceae. 
This is our only kind of Trollius. It is 
Globe-flower 5 " : 
es léxus 2m exceedingly beautiful flower, particu- 
White larly when found growing in the snow, or 
re near the edge of a field of melting ice, in 
high mountains and along the margins of 
glaciers. The handsome, toothed leaves are palmately- 
lobed or divided, the lower ones with long leaf-stalks, rich 
green and glossy and setting off the flowers, 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 
pte green stem, from two to three feet tall, and 
Trautvettéria 3 
grandis fine large leaves, prettily cut, smooth and 
White rather bright green, the lower ones some- 
ae times eight inches across. 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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