100 Smiladna Canadensis.
date-oblong, sub-sessile, glabrous on either side, closely nerved. Raceme
simple, terminal. Flowers small, from ten to fifteen, cream-
white, with stamens, pistil, &;c. same colour.
Grows in the deep shade of wet woods in rich soil; flowering in
May. Not uncommon throughout the Union.
This plant, having no odour nor beauty, possesses but little interest
excepting from its delicate structure. It is difficult to cultivate, like
most plants native of the bog-soil requiring for its perfection and preservation
that kind of soil protected by shade and moisture.
The figure represents the entire plant of its common size—specimens
are, however, frequently of a much smaller size.
RANUNCULUS FILIFORMIS.
THREAD-STEMMED RANUNCULUS.
Polyandria Polyginia, Linn. Ranunculacesey Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calioc 5-leaved. Petals 5, having the inner side of each claw furnished with a melliferous
pore, often membranaceously margined or covered by a separate
scale. Seeds naked, numerous.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Smooth, small j stem filiform, creeping, geniculate j geniculse one-flowered; leaves
linear, subulate, obtuse. Mich.
P lant small; stem very delicate, thread-like and creeping, divided
into joints from which radicles occasionally shoot. Radical
leaves an inch long, sub-spathulate, and obtuse. Cauline leaves
subulate, scarcely obtuse as Michaux describes them, shorter than
those of the root, and generally in pairs. Flowers terminal, solitary,
large for size of the plant. Petals ovate, striated, gamboge-yellow.—