CHAP. 15.—THE CALTHA. THE SCOPA REGIA.
Next to it comes the caltha, the flowers of which are of
similar colour and size; [Note] in the number of its petals, however,
it surpasses the marine violet, the petals of which are never
more than five in number. The marine violet is surpassed,
too, by the other in smell; that of the caltha being very powerful. The smell, too, is no less powerful in the plant known as
the "scopa regia;" [Note] but there it is the leaves of the plant,
and not the flowers, that are odoriferous.
