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Callianthemun.] i. RANUNCULACE.E. (Hook. f. & Tlioms.) 15 



Inner ranges of the Himalayas, alt. 9-13,000 ft., from Kashmir, Jacmiemont, to • 

 bikkim, ^ooZ'./. 



Densely tufteJ, glabrous, glaucous; root fibrous. Leaves very numerous, long- 

 petioled, segments rounded, 2-3-scct ; pinnules orbicular, deeply cut. Scajyes 2-4 in., 

 shorter than the leaves. Flowers 1-1 4 in. diam., white. ASepals broadly elliptic. 

 retak 8-12, 3 times larger than the sepals, oblong-cuneate, retuse. Aclienes few, large, 

 woul, obtuse, rugose. 



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Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves mucli divided. Sepals 5-8, petaloid, 

 coloured, imbricate. Petals 5-1 (i, yellow or red, eglandular. Carpels many ; 

 style short ; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit a spike or head of many achenes 



npped with a short persistent style. —Disteib. 3 or 4 European and Asiatic 

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flow ^ ^' ^***°**» ^^' Annual erect herbs, with leafy stems and scarlet 



I A. aestivalis, L. ; DC. Prodr. I 24; petals spreading, achenes an- 

 smar, with a touth on the inner ani^le near the beak. W, d: A. Prodr. 



/. <& 1\ FL lud. 25. A. Inglisii, Poi/le III. 53. 



Kashmir, Hazara, and 



Leaves decom- 



PpftT.!!!^^^' H'**'^r..vYA, in cornfields, from Kumaon to 

 e8nawur.---Di8TKm. Temperate Europe and Asia. 



pounk • ^'^'^"'^'' ^ "2 ^*-' s"^^P^« *^r branched, nearly glabrous. 



able i'^T^?^t% segments filiform. -Flowers solitary at the ends of the branches, vari- 



pitted --.nV^^I-*^*' ^*^** ^ ^^"^^ P^^^P^^ ^y^- Achenes in an ovoid or oblong head, deeply 

 »>ediatea -TK^ T ^ «»«^">'i»«^i« in the spreading petals, but there are many inter- 

 vanf^fiJ' -:*\®^che^es afford a very variable character, too much used in dividing 

 »neiies of this mto species. 



aiJultr — '°'***'^^***' ^^'^s.; Fl. Orient, i. 17 petals spreadhig, achenes 

 'dollar; ^^''"'^^de^ near the broad base by a flattened almost winged 



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»nRled Ip« ll^^stmct from A. ce^tivaUs, and only by the aclienes which are more sharply 

 Wl wino. ^ i ' ^""^ ™"S'» ^^itli small tuberc'les ; the upper achenes seem to lose the 

 : ? o- A. marginata, Bienert in Herb. Bunge, seems to be the same plant. 



,^T- II. Consoligo. Perennial herbs, with golden yellow flowers. 



»«t at^n^?'?*°^y***'"S, ff.f. d: T.; petals at length spreading achenes 

 ^'^. %^ fn ff '^""^ A «tyl« tapering revolute. A. pyrenaica, //./. c(- f FL 

 trod. XXX ^ ■^* Chrysocyathus (gen.), Falconer in Royle III. in- 



T'8et?Dpo^"'*''5 Himalaya, in Charaba and Kashmir, Jacqucmont; Westekn 



v^'n- -fiod/J; 7 ^' """zontal. ASteTK* several, enct, leafy, flowering G-9 m., fruiting 

 r*^" or q,,K ■''^ Petioled, 3-6 in., deltoid, pinnately decompoimd, .segments narrow- 

 ^"^ 7-8 , A ''^- Flowers golden-yellow, 2 in. and more diam., buds globose. 

 ¥'-TOw-obo'vHf« 1 f' *''"*®' many-nerved. PetaU 16-24, twice as long as the sepa s, 

 ?f'7. dorsalll ' '^- ^cAenes in a dense head, | in. diam , glabrous, flattened ante- 

 *W of 4 2. ''''''''f\ and obtusely keeled.— The foliage and flowerS closely resemble 

 ^'"» which hd? ^'^"' *" "^^'"^^ ''^ *^° absence of fruits we formerly referred it, and 



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