TROL'LIUS ASIAT'ICUS. 
ASIATIC GLOBE-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACEAC. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
3 feet. 
May & June. 
Perennial. 
in 1759. 
No. 763. 
An old Gei man word, trol, or trolen, is said to 
have been the origin of the name of this genus, 
and the signification has reference to the globular 
shape of the flower. 
Our drawing was taken from a plant known as 
Trollius Asiaticus superbus, and from its very fine 
growth, and the size of its blossoms in comparison 
with others, it well deserves the appellation superb. 
As a hardy border plant it is most desirable; its 
golden globes, or rather hemispheres, strike the 
attention at a distance, like the terminating cres- 
cents of a Turkish mosque. The Trollius Euro- 
paeus, published under No. 209, produces brilliancy 
in the back of a border, but the richness of colour 
in Asiaticus marks the superiority of this flower. 
Its general cultivation is most simple. It 
will grow in almost any situation ; but in a deep 
.rich soil, on a cool or moist subsoil, it luxuriates 
most freely. Increase may be obtained by the di- 
vision of its roots, in spring or autumn. In favour- 
able seasons this Trollius will ripen seeds ; from 
which young plants may be raised by sowing them 
in spring, on a bed of fine earth in a cool situation. 
