ganuars. 
ERANTHIS HYEMALIS. 
NAT. CLASS, — DICOTYLEDONES ; ORDER,—RANUNCULACEÆ. ART. CLASS, — 
POLYANDRIA ; ORDER,-POLYGYNIA. 
The leaves and flower-stalk spring from a fleshy 
creeping rhizoma, which also gives off fibrous roots. 
The leaves corne up after the flowers, with îong 
pétioles, to which their limb is placed nearly perpen- 
dicular, and is consequently somewhat peltate. It is 
deeply cleft into several lobes, and very smooth and 
shining. Towards the top of the flower-stalks is a 
rounded sessile leaf, deeply eut, and, being disposed 
horizontally, has the character of an involucrum, such 
as we find more distinctly exhibited in the Anémones. 
At a short distance above this is seated a single 
flower, whose perianth is composed of both calyx and 
