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CALTHA radicans.
Creeping Marsh Marigold.
P 0 LYANDR1A Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. none. Petals 5. Nectaries none.
Capsules several, with many seeds.
Spec. Char. Stem creeping. Leaves triangular, somewhat
heart-shaped, sharply crenate.
Syn. Caltha radicans. Forster Tr. of Linn, Soc. v. 8.
323. t. 17.
M r . t . F. FORSTER, who first defined this species of
Caltha, with three other new ones, in the Linnæan Society’s
Transactions, favoured us with this specimen from his garden,
which agrees with wild ones sent by Mr. G. Don from Scotland,
except that in the latter the stems are more erect. Mr.
Forster’s plant was found in Scotland by Mr. Dickson. It is
perennial, flowering in June, and is sometimes seen with
double flowers in gardens about London, being always readily
known, by its smaller size, more triangular and sharply crenate
lower leaves, and decumbent or creeping stem, from C. palustris,
t. 506. The petals moreover are smaller and more
wedge-shaped, so that the flowers are far less conspicuous and
ornamental.