TROL'LIUS AMERICA'NUS. 
AMERICAN GLOBE-FLOWER. 
Class. 
POLVA NDRIA, 
Order 
POLVCYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACEA5. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
6 inches. 
April, May. 
Perennial. 
in 1805. 
No. 800. 
The derivation and signification of the word 
Trollius is given under No. 209. It will be at once 
seen that the name is in no degree applicable to the 
present plant, which happens from its having been 
adopted for the European species, when that was 
the only one known to botanists. 
The two species of Trollius which we have fig- 
ured — the European as No. 209, and the Asiatic 
No. 763, are of far more robust growth, and of 
bolder character than the American plant now un- 
der consideration : those are well suited to the 
shrubbery, or back-ground of the border, whilst 
this, from its low stature and early flowers, should 
occupy a place in its foreground. 
We find this plant to be remarkably hardy; in- 
deed this would be indicated by its habitat, which 
is in shady moist places on mountains, in the state 
of New York ; in some parts of which, the extremes 
of heat and cold are much greater than in any 
part of this country. 
The Trollius asks not for the slightest care of 
the florist, other than being planted in the soil, in 
a situation either shaded or exposed. 
Don's Syst. Bot. 1, 45. 
