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RANÚNCULUS* créticus; var. macrophyllus. 
Large-leaved Candian Crowfoot. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEZE Juss. — (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 6.) 
RANUNCULUS L.—Calyz 5-sepalus, sepalis basi non solutis deciduis. 
Petala 5, rarius 10, intis basi squamulá foveoláve nectariferá instructa. 
Stamina ovariaque indefinita. Caryopsides ovate, subcompressee, in mucro- 
nem aut cornu semine vix longius desinentes, leeves striatee aut tuberculate, 
in capitulum globosum cylindraceumve dispositee.— De Cand. syst. 1. 231. 
R. creticus; foliis cauleque molliter subhirsutis, radicalibus petiolatis cor- 
datis orbiculatis subincisis dentatis, caulinis sessilibus tripartitis, lobis 
oblongis obtusis apice subdentatis, caule ramoso multifloro, calyce ap- 
presso. De Cand. prodr. 1. 29. 
R. creticus latifolius. Clus. hist. 1. p. 239. f. 1. 
R. creticus. Linn. sp. 775. Willd. sp. 2. 1313. De Cand. syst. 1. 264. 
8. macrophyllus ; foliis minus villosis, majoribus, profundiüs lobatis, dentibus 
paulo rotundioribus. De Cand. l. c. 
R macrophyllus. Desf. ft. atl. 1. 437. : 
Folia radicalia orbiculata, cordata, longe petiolata, lobata, subduplicato- 
dentata, pilosa, presertim subtüs et in petiolo ubi pili patentes sunt. Caulis 
ascendens, 2-pedalis, teres, pilosus. Folia caulina subsessilia, tripartita, 
dentata ; floralia tripartita, integerrima. Calyx patens, sepalis acuminatis, 
pilosis. Petala oblonga, basi attenuata, obtusa, calyce triplo longiora. 
This is well figured by Clusius, and a representation of 
it is said, by M. De Candolle, to exist among Aubriet's 
drawings in the Museum at Paris: that which we now 
publish is the first coloured figure. 
* Some think, as these plants are called Ranunculus in Latin, which is 
evidently derived from rana, a frog, and also Bargezso» in Greek, which 
signifies the same thing, that their name has been formed in consequence 
of their growing in moist-or marshy places. But Smith remarks, that the 
original Bergezco» is Ranunculus asiaticus, which inhabits dry corn-fields : 
hence he infers that the name refers to the divisions in the leaves, which 
resemble a frog’s foot. 
