14 1. BANUNCULACEjE. 



4. Ranunculus Cymbalaria, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. p. 392 ; 

 Hook.f. $ Thorns. Flora Indica, i. p. 31 ; Walp. Ann. iv. p. 18 ; 

 Franchet, PI. David, p. 20, et in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxii. 



Ranunculus plantaginifolius, Murr. ; Ledeb. Fl. Altaica, ii. p. 312 ; 

 Franchet, I. c. 



Ranunculus salsuginosus, Pall ; DC. Prodr. i. p. 33. 



a. major, Hook.f. Sf TJwms. 1. c. p. 32. 



Chihlt : near Peking (Bretschneider !). Herb. Kew. 



/3. alpinus, Hook. f. Sf Thorns. I. c. 



Chihli : near Peking (Bretschneider I), Jehol (David, 1752!) ; 

 YtjnjN'ais' : Koualapo mountain near ~Hokm (Dclavay vs. Franchet). 

 Herb. Kew. 



North cold temperate regions and southward in America to the 

 Andes. 



5. Ranunculus diffusus, DC. Prodr. i. p. 38 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. i. p. 19. 



Anwhei : Cbinkiang and Yangtse (Maries I). Herb. Kew. 



The Chenab to Bhotan, and the Western Peninsula of India ; 

 also Java and Sumatra. 



The Chinese specimen quite agrees, so far as it goes, with the 

 form named subpinnatus by Wight and Arnott. 



6. Ranunculus japonicus, Langsd, ex Fisch. in DC. Prodr. i. 

 p. 38, non Thunb., ex Maxim. Fl. As. Or. Fragm. p. 3. 



Ranunculus ternatus, DC. Syst. i. p. 242, et Prodr. i. p. 31 ; Franchet, 

 PI. David, p. 19 ; Deless. Ic. PI. Rar. i. t. 25? 



Chihli : near Peking (David, 469, 2977, ex Franchet) ; Luchit 

 (Wright\). Herb. Kew. 



The only specimen from within our limits we have seen that 

 we could refer to this species is Wright's. As stated under B. 

 pensylvanicus, some forms of this are scarcely distinguishable 

 from that species. Helessert's figure may represent either species. 

 See the remarks under B. ternatus. 



Japan. 



7. Ranunculus Mofcilendorffii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 7. 

 Chihli : Pohuashan (Moellendorff ex Hance). 



8. Ranunculus pensylvanicus, Linn. Suppl. PI. p. 272 ; DC. 

 Prodr. i. p. 40 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 19. 



Ranunculus chinensis, Bunge, Enum. PL Ch. Bor. p. 3. 



Ranunculus fibrosus, Wall.; Hook.f. et Thorns. Flora Indica, i. p. 3/. 



