[*][*] _Flowers all perfect, corymbed; the filaments strongly club-shaped or inflated under the small and short anther; stigma short; achenes gibbous, long-stipitate._ 4. T. clavàtum, DC. Size and appearance of n. 1; leaves only twice ternate; flowers white, fewer; achenes 5--10, flat, somewhat crescent-shaped, tapering into the slender stipe.--Mountains of Va. and southward. June. 6. TRAUTVETTÈRIA, Fisch. & Mey. FALSE BUGBANE. Sepals 3--5, usually 4, concave, petal-like, very caducous. Petals none. Achenes numerous, capitate, membranaceous, compressed-4-angled and inflated. Seed erect.--A perennial herb, with alternate palmately-lobed leaves, and corymbose white flowers. (For _Prof. Trautvetter_, a Russian botanist.) 1. T. palmàta, Fisch. & Mey. Stems 2--3° high; root-leaves large, 5--11-lobed, the lobes toothed and cut.--Moist ground along streamlets, Md. to S. Ind., and south to Ga. 7. ADÒNIS, Dill. Sepals and petals (5--16) flat, unappendaged, deciduous. Achenes numerous, in a head, rugose-reticulated. Seed suspended.--Herbs with finely dissected alternate leaves and showy flowers. (Ἄδωνις, a favorite of Venus, after his death changed into a flower.) A. AUTUMNÀLIS, L. A low leafy annual, with scarlet or crimson flowers, darker in the centre.--Sparingly naturalized from Europe. 8. MYOSÙRUS, Dill. MOUSE-TAIL. Sepals 5, spurred at the base. Petals 5, small and narrow, raised on a slender claw, at the summit of which is a nectariferous hollow. Stamens 5--20. Achenes numerous, somewhat 3-sided, crowded on a very long and slender spike-like receptacle (whence the name, from μῦς, _a mouse_, and οὐρά, _a tail_), the seed suspended.--Little annuals, with tufted narrowly linear-spatulate root-leaves, and naked 1-flowered scapes. Flowers small, greenish. 1. M. mínimus, L. Fruiting spike 1--2´ long; achenes quadrate, blunt.--Alluvial ground, Ill. and Ky., thence south and west. (Eu.) 9. RANÚNCULUS, Tourn. CROWFOOT. BUTTERCUP. Sepals 5. Petals 5, flat, with a little pit or scale at the base inside. Achenes numerous, in a head, mostly flattened, pointed; the seed erect.--Annuals or perennials; stem-leaves alternate. Flowers solitary or somewhat corymbed, yellow, rarely white. (Sepals and petals rarely only 3, the latter often more than 5. Stamens occasionally few.)--(A Latin name for a little frog; applied by Pliny to these plants, the aquatic species growing where frogs abound.) R. FICÀRIA, L. (representing the § _Ficaria_), which has tuberous-thickened roots, Caltha-like leaves, and scape-like peduncles bearing a 3-sepalous and 8--9-petalous yellow flower, has been found as an escape from gardens about New York and Philadelphia. § 1. BATRÁCHIUM. _Petals with a spot or naked pit at base, white, or only the claw yellow; achenes marginless, transversely wrinkled; aquatic or subaquatic perennials, with the immersed foliage repeatedly dissected (mostly by threes) into capillary divisions; peduncles 1-flowered, opposite the leaves._