Globe-flower, or Luccen Gowen, in botany: A genus of plants belonging to the class of polyandra and order of polygynia; and in the natural system ranging under the 26th order, Multiflora. The calyx is wanting; there are about 14 petals; the capsules are very numerous, ovate, and monopernons. There are two species, the afaicus and europaeus; the latter of which is a British plant.

Europaeus, or European globe-flower, has its corollas convenient, and from 9 to 16 nectaria, of the length of the filaments, linear, plane, incurvated, and perforated at the infide of the base. The leaves are divided first into five segments... down to the base; the segments are again divided, each about half way, into two or three lobes, which are sharply indented on the edges. The stalk is a foot high, and scarcely branched: the flower is yellow, globose, and spicuous. It grows at the foot of mountains, and by the sides of rivulets.

The country people in Sweden strew their floors and pavements on holidays with the flowers, which have a pleasant smell, and are ornamental in gardens.