Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Late Lyceum of Natural History, Vol. 12

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Excerpt from Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Late Lyceum of Natural History, Vol. 12: October, 1892, to June, 1893I have seen the type of this plant in Michaux's Herbarium at the Jardin des Plantes, and it is clearly a common plant of the Eastern and Middle States and not at all the western species called hispidus by Hooker, which Michaux, in all probability, never saw, Dr. Gray's remarks (proc. Amer. Acad. Xxi. 375) to the contrary notwithstanding. It is an early - blooming woodland species, often ¿owering about New York as early as April 15th, and much before any of the other buttercups. It is not stoloniferous so far as I have Observed, the young stems are usually densely villous-pubescent but become glabrate or appressed-pubescent in age, the roots are numerous, thick and ¿eshy, the leaves are pinnately three-divided (very rarely pin hately five-divided), very pubescent, at least when young, the segments ovate, oblong or Obovate, nearly cuneate at the base, and sharply cleft and lobed, the ¿owers are a half inch to one and one half inches broad, with petals considerably longer than the Spreading sepals (usually twice as long) the head of fruit is usually somewhat longer than thick, though often globose, the achenes are nearly orbicular, lenticular, narrowly margined and, when mature, abruptly tipped by a subulate curved style of about one - half their length.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.