1. BANUNCULACE.E. 13 



Yunnan : Koualapo mountains between Tali and Hokin (De- 

 lavay ex Franchet). 

 Kashmir to Sikkim. 



1. Ranunculus acris, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 554 ; DO. Prodr. 

 i. p. 39 ; Maxim. Fl. As. Or. Fragm. p. 3 ; Franch. et Savat. Fl. 

 Jap. ii. p. 266 ; Franchet, PI. David, p. 19. 



Ranunculus japonicus, Thunb. non Langsd.Jide Maxim. 



Ranunculus propinquus, C. A. Mey. in Ledeb. Fl. Altaica, ii. p. 332. 



Ranunculus propinquus, C. A. Mey., var. hirsutus, A. Gr. in Mem. Am. 

 Acad. n. s. vi. p. 3/8. 



Ranunculus hirtellus, Roylel, Hance inJourn. Bot. 18/8, p. 104. 



Chihli, Shingktng, Shensi, Kiangsu, KiANGsr, and Coeea. 

 Apparently common in the northern provinces. Mus. Brit. ; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Europe, North Africa, North Asia. 



2. Ranunculus aguatilis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 556 ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 26, var. vel subspecies Bungei. 



Ranunculus hydrophilus, Bunge, Enum. PL Ch. Bor. p. 2, non Gaudich. ; 

 Franchet, PI. David, p. 18. 



Ranunculus Bungei, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, ii. p. 433. 



Ranunculus hydrocharis, Spenner, forma Bungei, Hiern in Journ. Bot. 

 1871, p. 100. 



CnrnLi : near Peking {Bunge ! Bushell !), Jehol {David ex 

 Franchet). Herb. Kew. 



There are also specimens from the same region in the Kew 

 Herbarium, collected by MoellendorfF, of a slightly different form, 

 in which the leaves are more deeply divided and the segments 

 much narrower. Maximowicz (Ind. Fl. Pek.) includes a second 

 form, which he calls P. aquatilis, /3. brevifolius, Possm., and 

 which may be the same. In Herb. Forbes is a fruiting specimen 

 of an apparently somewhat starved state of a different form 

 (JR. trichophyllus, Chaix ex Maximowicz in litt.) without floating 

 leaves, from a small pond near the Tsau Lake in Anwhei. The 

 aggregate species is very widely diffused in temperate regions. 



3. Ranunculus auricomus, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 551 ; DC. 

 Prodr. i. p. 33 ; Baker §' Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 376. 



Shingking : Fungwangchung (Rossi), Muchi (Webster I). 

 Herb. Kew. 



Europe, Siberia, and North India. 



