POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Trollius. 685 
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T’ROI/LIUS.* Cal. none: Petals about fourteen: Capsules 
many, egg-shaped, many-seeded : {Nectary compressed. 
E.) 
T. Europ.ze^us. Petals converging: nectaries five to ten, as long as the 
stamens. 
Kniph. 4— FI. Dan. 133— E. Bot. 28—Clus. i. 237. 1 —Dod. 430. 1 —Lob. 
Obs. 385. 1, and Ic. i. 675 — Ger. Em. 955. 12— Ger. 809. 13— J. B . iii. 
419— H. Ox. xii. 2. 2—Matth. 613— Park. Par. 219. 11. 
( Stem upright, about eighteen inches high, cylindrical, smooth, branching 
upwards. Seeds black and shining. E.) Blossoms globose, yellow. 
Nectaries yellow, not longer than the stamens. Leaves round in their 
circumscription, divided to the base into five, segments very entire at the 
base, jagged upwards. Capsules ribbed transversely, terminated by a 
crooked horn, pointing outwards, giving the head a star-like appearance. 
Woodw. 
Globe-flower. Gowlans. (Luclcen-Gowan; i. e. Cabbage Daisy, in 
Scotland. E.) Sides of mountains, and mountainous meadows in Wales 
and the North of England. Hudson. (Common in Scotland. Hooker. 
E.) Skirrith Wood, and moist woods about Settle, Yorkshire. Curtis. 
Near Troutbeck, Westmoreland. Mr. Woodward. At the road side near 
Dale Park, in Furness Fells. Mr. Atkinson. Marshes in the county of 
Durham, common. Mr. Robson. (Meadows at Hays, Shropshire, 
plentifully. Waring. Boggy grassy lands to the left of the road from 
Dolgelle to Trawsfynaid, Merionethshire. Rev. J. Davies, in Bot. Guide. 
At the foot of the Black Cataract, near Moentwrog, North Wales. Miss 
- Roberts. Near Buxton. Bree, in Purt. Woods on Derwent water. Mr. 
Winch. Banks of the Water of Leith. Mr. Maughan. Hook. Scot. 
Banks of the Clyde at Bothwell; and the Falls. Hopkirk. Aspatria 
Mill, Cumberland. Rev. J. Dodd. Banks of Winandermere. Mr. W. 
Christy. Convoy and Lough Gartan, Donegal. Mr. Murphy. E.) 
P. May—June.f 
HELLEB'ORXJS.J JBloss. none : Cal. five leaves, often 
coloured: Nectaries bilabiate, tubular : Caps, like a legu- 
men ; many-seeded, rather upright, beaked. 
H. vir'idis. Stem many-flowered, leafy: leaves digitate: petals ex¬ 
panding. 
* (A name invented by Gesner, who thus latinized the German word trol , spherical; 
descriptive of the globular form of the blossom. E.) 
j* It is cultivated in flower gardens ; and in its double state makes a handsome appear¬ 
ance. The term Lucken, (meaning closed as a cabbage) applied to this kind of Gowan y 
may tend to reconcile the prevalent opinion, and to identify the Globe-flower with the one 
introduced in the garland presented by the young Laird to Edinburgh Katy ; or we should 
have supposed the Marsh Marigold, (which see), of more general occurrence, to have 
answered the description sufficiently well 
“ We’ll gae to some burn-side to play 
And gather flowers to busk ye’r brow: 
We’ll pou the daisies on the green, 
The Luc ken-Gow aim frae the bog.” A. Ramsay. E.) 
+ (From s\tiv, to destroy; and i Sopa, food for cattle; q. d. poisonous food, £.) 
