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Seeds with a large crest.—A low perennial, with thick prostrate premorse rootstocks, surcharged with red-orange acrid juice, sending up in earliest spring a rounded palmate-lobed leaf, and a 1-flowered naked scape.

Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.

Premorse, prē-mors′, adj. ending abruptly, as if bitten off.

Leaves premorse, lanceolate, decurrent, downy.

Premorse: as if bitten off: with a blunt or jagged termination.