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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
ftand within it a vaft number of very fhort fila- 
ments, and among them the rudlmL-ncs of nume- 
rous capfules. Toward the bottom of each petal 
there is a gland which opens in a labiaced manner, 
the lip being undivided. ' 
The feeds are contained in numerous capfules. 
It is a native of Wales, and of fome of the 
northern counties of England. It flowers in 
June. 
We keep it in gardens for the fingularity of 
the flower. 
The virtues have not been tried. 
Molt authors have called this plant a Ranun- 
culus, not obferving the feed-veifel. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ranunculus montanus aconiti 
folio flore glohofo ; others. Ranunculus globofus. 
DIVISION 11. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Small Globe-flower. 
Trollius hianilis flore croceo. 
The root is a tuft of long, thick fibres. 
The leaves rifing from the root are deeply di- 
vided in the manner of thofe of the other ; but 
they ftand on fliorter footflialks, and are of a pale 
green. 
The ftalk is round, tolerably upright, and 
about ten inches high. 
Its leaves are few; and they are deeply di- 
vided, and have the divifions ferrated at the edge 
as the others : they are of a paler green, and 
ftand very irregularly. 
The flowers are very large, and very beautiful : 
their colour is a deep yellow, with a tinge 
of orange and they at firft have the figure of 
thofe of the common globe-flower j but when they 
have flood Tome time, they open : they have a 
great number of threads within, and are fucceeded 
by many fliort and flat pods. 
What is very fingular in the fl:ru£ture of the 
flower in this fpecies is, that the glandules we 
have defcribed at the bottoms of the petals in the 
common globe-flower, are in this very long, and 
give a very particular afpeiS to the whole. 
This fpecies is a native of many parts of the 
world, but not of England. Tournefort found 
it in the Greek iflands, and Amman in Siberia: 
they both defcribe it as a fpecies of hellebore. 
Tournefort calls it Hellehorus niger orientalis ra- 
nunculi folio flore nequaqucim globofo. Amman, 
Hellehorus aconiti folio flore globofo croceo. 
Linnasus defcribcs the firfl: as a fpecies of 
hellebore^ in his Flore la'ponica. 
GENUS III. 
MARSH MARYGOLD. 
C A L r H A, 
THE leaves are undivided : the flower is compofed of five large petals, and has no cup. In the 
centre there are numerous filaments, with ereft, obtufe, comprefl'ed buttons. The capfules 
are numerous, Ihort, and pointed ; and the feeds roundifh. 
Linnfeus places this among the folyandria folygynia., next to the crowfoot ; fuppofing, in his ufual 
manner, that they are of the fame clafs, becaufe both have numerous filaments ia the centre of the 
flower ; though the feeds of the crowfoot ftand naked, and the feeds of the marfh marygold are enclofed 
in capfules. 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies, and that is a native of Britain, and very common. 
Common Marfti Marygold. 
Caltha paluflris. 
The root is compofed of a vaft number of long, 
thick, whitifti fibres, which run under the fur- 
face to a great diftance. 
The leaves rifing from it ftand on long, green, 
thick, and flefliy footftalks : they arc of a roun- 
difh figLire, but indented where they receive the 
ftaik, and very lightly notched about the edges. 
The fialks are thick, round, flefliy, upright, 
of a pale green, and a foot and a half high : they 
have fev/ branches, and their leaves ftand irregu- 
larly i thofe toward the lower part have footfl:alks, 
thofe higher up have not ; and they are all of the 
fame fhape, though fomewhat finuated and 
pointed, and of the fame fine green colour. 
The flowers are very large, and of a beautiful 
yellow : they have a great tuft of fliort threads 
in the centre. 
The feeds are contained in a clufter of fhort 
pods. 
It is frequent in our meadows, and flowers in 
April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Call ha paluflris flore fmplici-^ 
others, Caltha paluflris. 
Authors have delcribed, and even figured, 
what they call the fmall marjh marygold., as if a 
diftinift fpecies ; but it is only an accidental va- 
riety. 
I'he flowers of this plant are fometimes found 
naturally double : this alfo has by fome been 
figured as a diftindt fpecies \ but thefe are the 
moft common and trivial of all varieties. 
Its virtues have not been tried. 
GENUS 
