TROL'LIUS HU'MILIS. 
DWARF GLOEE FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
rOLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANCNCCLACE^E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Austria. 
9 inches. 
May, June 
Perennial. 
in 1800. 
No. 1139. 
The name of the plant now to be considered, has 
been founded on a German word, signifying round 
or globular ; a character that is prominent in the 
species Europaeus, which is a native alike of Eng- 
land and Germany. 
Trollius humilis, to the eye of the commonest 
observer, is at once discovered to be unlike the 
species Europaeus, just referred to ; but when des- 
cribed in words, it possesses no well-defined char- 
acter by which it can be distinguished. This plant 
is much smaller than Europaeus, and its flower 
wants that globe-like form which so prominently 
distinguishes its congener ; but these differences 
constitute no distinctive botanical character, conse- 
quently Decandolle, the eminent French botanist, 
has esteemed Trollius humilis as a variety only of 
Trollius Europaeus. 
Few plants more amply repay good culture than 
does the present one. Growing wild, on its native 
plains in Austria, it seldom rises but a few inches 
in height ; but under generous treatment, in a 
cultivated border, it will attain a foot, and increase 
more freely for division. 
