Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Plate 53. Eranthis hyemalis.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

ERANTHIS hyemalis

Winter Aconite.

Class and Order.—Polyandria Polygynia.

Syn. Eranthis hyemalis. Salisbury, Lin. Soc. Trans. Vol. 8. p. 303.

Helleborus hyemalis. Curt. Bot. Mag. Vol. 1. p. 3.

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Root tuberous—leaves radical, on long petioles, radiated, palmate, lobes generally trifid—scape radical, one flowered—involucrum sessile, lobed, becoming larger when the flower decays—corolla yellow—petals six, or sometimes more, obovate, nectaries tubular, stamens from twenty to thirty—anthers compressed—styles many.