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I. RANUNCULACEA5. 
[ T/ollius. 
8. Trollies Linn. Globe flower. 
Sepals 5 or many, coloured. Pet. 5 or many, small, linear, 
flat, with an obscure depression above the contracted base. 
Stamens numerous. Follicles many. — Name said to be derived 
from “ trol or trolen ,” a ball or globe in old German, and bear- 
ing the same meaning as our English word globe-flower. 
1. T. Europce'us L. ( Mountain G.) ; calyx of about 15 con- 
cave erect sepals, petals nearly as long as the stamens. E. B. 
t. 28. 
Moist mountain-pastures in the north of England and Ireland, 
Wales and Scotland. If.. 6 — 8. — Leaves in 5 deep segments, 
which are again cut and serrate. Flowers large, handsome. 
( Eranthis hyemdlis Salisb., the well-known Winter-aconite of 
our gardens and shrubberies, although naturalized in several 
localities, has no claim to a place in the British Flora.) 
9. Helleborus Linn. Hellebore. 
Cal. of 5 persistent sepals. Pet. 8 — 10, small, tubular, and 
nectariferous. Stamens numerous. Follicles 3 — 10, sessile. — 
Name : i\uv, to injure, and i3opa,food, from its poisonous nature. 
1. H. viridis L. ( green H.) ; stem few-flowered leafy, leaves 
digitate, calyx spreading. E. B. t. 200. 
Woods, thickets, and hedges ; and about walls and old bouses 
especially in a chalky soil : perhaps wild in Birkdale near Helmsley, 
Yorkshire, and in the south of England. If.. 3, 4 . — About 1 ft. 
high. Leaves annual, large, on a broad stalk ; upper ones sessde; 
segments linear-lanceolate, serrate at the extremity. Cal. large, 
greenish-yellow. This and the following have been often employed 
medicinally, instead of the true ancient or Greek H. ( II. officinalis 
Sibth. and Smith). * 
2. H .fce'tidus L. ( stinking H .) ; stem many-flowered leafy, 
leaves pedate, calyx converging. E. B. t. 613. 
Pastures and thickets, especially in chalky counties, in England ; 
wild in Hants ; Dr. Bromfield. Blantyre, Barncluith, and by the 
Doune (Ayr) on the west; and near Anstruther, on the east of Scot- 
land, but certainly introduced. 2f. 2 — 4 . — A bushy plant, 2 feet 
high. Leaves evergreen, uppermost ones gradually becoming bracteas. 
Flowers globose ; calyx often tipped with a purple tinge. Fetid and 
powerfully cathartic. 
10. Aquilegia Linn. Columbine. 
Cal. of 5 sepals, deciduous, coloured. Pet. 5, regular, ter- 
minating below in a horn-shaped spur or nectary. Stamens 
numerous. Follicles 5. — Named from uquila, an eagle, whose 
claws the nectaries resemble. 
