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20 i. iTANUNCULACEi:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Ranunculus, 



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Swamps "ami ncc fields in Nipat., Wallich ; banks of the Sutlej at Lutliana, and 

 Ganges at Bhojpur, EJgeworth. Assam, and Kha&ia hills, up to 6000 ft., II f, & T.— 

 DisTR|B. N China, Amur-land, N. America. 



Stein 2-3 ft., prostrate and rooting at the base only, branched. Sadical Icctves long- 

 petioled, leaflets long-stalked, 3-partite and deeply cut into linear segments; cauline 

 shorter petioled, upper subsesaile. Flowers about 1 in. diam. Sepals reflexed. Achenes 

 many, large, with an intramarginal rib and sliort straight beak. — Very variable in^the 

 nhapc of the head of achenes, and in the prominence and position of their intramargii.al 

 rib ; but a large suite of specimens convinces us of the specific identity of all the forms. 



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Sect. IV. Echinella, DC Annual, rarely perennial. Flowers small, 

 yellow. Achenes ecliinate or tubercled (rarely smooth in 20, muricatm), 



18. XI. flaccidus, ZT. / & T. Fl. Ind. 38 ; perennial, tufted, prostrate, 

 leaves reniforra or orbicular crenate glabrous, achenes beaked, rough with 

 small tubercles. 



Temperate Himalaya, in the upper forest region, from Kumaon to Bhotan, ali. 

 9-10,000 ft. 



Patches large, dense,* green, appressetl to the ground ; stems filiform ; nodes often 

 rooting. Leavt'8 i in. diam. or less, 3-5-crenate. Flowers minute, | in. diam., soli- 

 tary, leaf-opposed. Sepals reflexed, nearly equalling the petals. Achenes 6-12, pubes- 

 cent, oval, not much compressed, beak short reflexed. 



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19. S. Wallicliianas, W.i(: A. Prodr. i. 4 ; perennial, prostrate, liaiiy, 

 leaves ternatipartite, achenes compressed orbicular tubercled. — WigM h. 

 t. 937 ; //./. ik T. FL Ind. 38. R. pinnatus, WigM III. i. 6, not of Poird. . 



Temperate zone of the mountains of Cetlon and Njlghiri. 



Stems spreading and rooting at the nodes from the perennial rootstock, hirsute, rarely 

 gbibrate. Bad'cal leaves I-I4 in. diam. ; 8?ffmcnts stalked, obovate-cuneate, sharply 

 rut and toothed ; cauline 3-partite. Peduncles l-flowered, leaf-opposed and terminal- 

 Flowers I in. diam. Sepals reflexed, much shorter than the petals. Achenes flattened, 

 margined, both dotted and tubercled. 



20. R. zuuiicatuSy Linn. ; annual, erect or dififuse, glabrous, rarely 

 hairy, leiives 3-fid, achenes oval flattened tubercled or spinous, rarely smooth. 

 //./ (k T. FL Ind. 39. K Cabulicus, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 2, 9. 



Swampj places, at low elevations, in the Punjab-Himalaya, and in the plains at 

 I'fcSiiAWUR and Amballah. — Distrib. Europe, W. Asia, temperate N, America. 



SteviB 4-12 in. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., lobes irregularly cut, base rounded or cordate^, 

 of the nimer cuneate, Floioers h-k in. dram., solilarv and leaf-onnosed. or terrain ' 



and paniclfcd. Sepals reflexed, rather shorter than the petals, Achenes in a large 

 globose head, ^ in. long, tubercles scattered over the flattened sides, or confined to near 



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21. B. arvensfs* Linn.; annual, erect, much branched, glabrous or 

 silky above, radical leaves cuneate or obovate 3-5-toothed, cauline 3-partite, 

 achenes few large obliquely obovate not margined, densely spinous. WalL 



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Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon. — Distrib. Europe, Asia Minor, 

 Affghanistan, Western Siberia. ^ : v. mX i^^^t:»^ v^*; :>:.;. " v \. 



Stem solitary, 6-24 in. Leaven variable, lowest 1-2 in:, soon withering, segments of 

 ►^ipxline cut into linear lobes. i^w:er« i in. diam. ^^a& appressed to and half th« 

 tength of tlw petals. Aclents 5-10, usually clotted with hooked spines; style straight 

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