POLYANDRIA, POLYGYNIA. 23 
Marsh Marigold. Meadow Cowslip. 
A very fine plant, with deep green leaves and bright deep 
yellow shining flowers. Whole plant has the habit of Ranun- 
culus. In a swampy wood, about half a mile or three quarters 
due west of the three miles-stone, on the Germantown road. 
Very rare. 1 have not found it elsewhere. Perennial. April. 
260. HEPATICA. Willd. enum. {Ranunculacede.') 
Calix 3-leaved. Petals 6 to 9. Seeds naked. 
1. H. leaves three-lobed, very entire, lobes round- triloba, 
obtuse, scape one-liowered.~/FiZW. aobtum. 
Anemone Hepatica, Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 1273. 
Icon. FI. Dan. 610. Bot. Mag. 10. 
Three-lobed Liver-wort. 
One of the earliest blooming spring plants, often flowering 
before the leaves have come up, and while snow is yet on the 
gTOund- Flowers purple, rarely white. In woods, under de- 
cayed and fallen leaves, on rich soil. Common. Perennial. 
March till May. 
261. RANUNCULUS. Gen. pi. 953. {Ranunculacea.') 
Calix 5-leaved. Petals 5 ; having the inner 
side of each claw furnished with a melli- 
ferous pore, often membranaceously mar- 
gined or covered by a separate scale. Seeds 
naked, numerous. — Mutt. 
1. R. smooth stem declinate, leaves narrow-lan- Fiammuia. 
ceolate, acute, entire and denticulate ; the lower 
ones petiolate, peduncles terminal, axillary, 
one-flowered ", calices subrefiexed. — Willd. and 
Fursh. 
Icon. FI. Dan. 575. Engl. Bot. 387. 
About a foot or two feet high, leaning obliquely from the 
root. Leaves of a delicate blueish-green. Flowers small, yel- 
