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Curious Plants and. Pivinets now in A Perfection: 
I. 
HE Gardener is not ‘unacquainted with 
this Plant, nor will miftake its Fi igure, 
tho’ accuftom’d to call it by a different 
Name. It has long been a Favourite among the 
Plants, preferved for their Singularity; nor do 
many who raife it in their Borders, know that it 
is a wild Plant of our own Country. 
This thews how little Trouble i is needa for its 
Management; and no one who ever {aw the Flower, 
BUROPEAN TROLELIUS., 
ferable, becaufe j it bes not fk the Plant to any June. 
other Genus, or create Confufion. 
| ‘Einwates? from the different Structure of the 
Female Parts of the Flower, - the Seed Veffels, 
and its want of other effential Characters of the 
will difpute that it deferves the Place it has fo 
Jong maintain’d among the cultivated Plants. 
_ Few of the Writers on Botany have omitted to 
_ defcribe it, tho’? moft of them have been mifled 
by its Refemblance to the Crowfoot Kind, to call 
it by that Name: from the Form of the Leaves, 
and the Size and Colour of the Flower, they 
were led to rank it among thefe Plants; and. from 
its fpherical Shape, hey added the Diftinction 
giobofe. 
- They have ae it Ranunculus globofus, Ranun- 
culus flore globofo, and Ranunculus aconiti folio mon- 
from) its Place of Growth, and Form of 
the Leaves. 
From its moft ufual Latin Name thé Engli/h 
Gardeners call it Globe Crowfoot ; fome. by an an- 
tiquated Provincial Term, Locker: Gowlons; and 
ome, the Glove flower. This laft is greatly pre- 
Numb. XXXVIIL. 
Names-of-the Plant Troliius ; 
Crowfoot, feparated it from that’ Kind; in his 
earlier Works, the flora Suecica and Cli ifort Garden, 
he refer’d it to’ the Hellebore ; but in his’ lateft 
Pieces he has allow’d it a peculiar Genus. 
For this he has adopted one of the old Latin 
and in Diftinétion™ 
from an 4, atic Kind, he adds to the Title of 
this Europzan one, Corollis conniventibus neclariis 
| 4ngitudine faminum :’ fhut-flower’d Trollius, with 
the Nectaria of the Length of the Threads. This 
isa perfect Diftinétion;: for in the’ other the 
Flower expands, and thofe Glands are as longs as 
the Petals. » 
-- The Root is compofed of a Multitude of long 
black Fibrés, connected to a fhort’ and fmall 
Head. 
The Leaves that rife from this have long green 
Footftalks, and are of a rounded Fone, cut 
down to the Bafe into five principal Parts ; 
and then again divided into other deep a. 
ments, all fharp pointed, and deeply notch’d at 
the Edges: ‘this Form, and the Support of a 
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