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I. RANUNCULACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Aquile^ia 



Carpeh 5 or more, sessile; 

 See<h with a crustaceous testa. 



coloured, deciduous. Petals 5, funnel-shaped, produced into a spur at the 

 base. StaiufTis many, inner reduced to scales. '^ ' " ~ """"' ""' 



ovules many. Follicles many-seeded SeedL ..x^.. «. ^.^...v, 



DiSTKiB. North temperate zone; species 5 or 6, with many subspecies and 

 varieties. 



1. Am vulgaris, L, ; glabrous or pubescent, stem usually branched, leaves 

 bitemately compound, lobes incised sessile or petiolulate, sepals larger than 

 the carpels and stamens, spur of petals gradually narrowed to the point. 



Western Temperate and Subalpine Himalaya. — Distrib. Temp. Europe ana 

 Asia. 



SuBSP. 1. VULGARIS propcf ; glabrous or slightly pubescent, sepals^ ovate obtuse, 

 epnr hooked as long as the blade of the petal. — A. vulgaris, DC. &c. — ^Tibetan region. 



SuBSP. 2. viscosA ; habit, &c. of vulcfaris proper, but smaller, odorous, and covered 

 with glandular hairs. — A. viscosa, Gouan, &c. — Western Tibet, abundant. 



SuBSP. 3. PUBiFLORA ; softly pubescent, sepals ovate-lanceolate tapering to a fin€ 

 point, spur short much curved. — A. pubiflora, Wall. Cat, n. 4714; Boyle Ilh t. 55.— 

 Temperate outer Himalaya, 



SuBSP. 4. ALPIXA ; pubescent or glandular, leaflets generally much cut, flowers verj 

 Inrge, sepals obtuse or subarute, spur nearly straight. — A. alpina, L. &c. ; Delesg» 

 Jc, 1. t. 48. A. glandulosa, FUch in DC. Prodr. i. 50.— Alpine region of the West 

 11 imalaya. 



SuBSP. 5. PYBENAiCA ; Boftlj pubesccut or glandular often glaucous, flowers often 

 white and sweet-scented, sepals ovate acute, spur very long slender straight or hooked. 

 — A. pvrenaica, DC, Prodr, i. 50. A. Kanawarensis, Camh, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 5 ; 

 Pot. Mag, t. 4493 ; A. Moorcroftiana, Wall Cat. n. 4713 ; lloyle 111 55. A. Olympka, 

 Bohs. Ft Orient, i. 71. A. glauca, Lindl, Bot, Peg. xxvi. t. 46. A. fragrans, i?e«iA. 

 in Maund^s Botanist, iv. t. 151. — Alpine and temperate western Himalaya and Tibet, 

 Hit. 10-14,000 ft. 



Sdbsp. 6. JDCUNDA ; stem simple 4-8 in. leafless or with one small leaf, flower very 

 Inrge dark purple, sepals very broadly ovate, spur short much incurved. — A.jucunda, 

 Fisch (& Jley. ; Led. Fl Boss. i. 736.— Kashmir. 



15. SEX-PBINXITIIX, Linn. 



Annual or perennial erect herbs. Leaver palmately lobed. Floweis 

 racemed or panicled, irregular, white blue or purfdish. Sepals 5, free or 

 o.ohering at the \>ase, dorsal spurred behind. Petals 2-4, small ; spurs of 

 the 2 dorsal developed within that of the sepal ; 2 lateral spurlesa or 0. 

 atamens many. Follicles 1-7. Seeds many, testa wrinkled or plaited.— 

 Distrib. N. temperate zone ; species about 40, very variable. 



* Spur cylindric or inflated (not subulate or conical). 



1. S. uncinatum, IT./, <fc T.; leaves 5-partite, segments inciso-pin- 

 natifid, flowers ^ in. long, spur inflated hooked obtuse. D. peuicillatum, 

 II. /, (C^ T. FL Ind, 48, not of Boissier. D. vestitum, Boiss. FL Or, I 92, not 

 of Wall, <6 Royle^ 



Salt range of the Pfxj.iB, Vicary, and West Himai,ata, from Banahal to Marrij 

 on dry hills, Winterhottom^ fic. ^. 



Stem 1-2 ft., simple or sparingly branched, pubescent or glabrons, few leaved. 

 Badical leaves 2 in. Flowers in long many-flowered densely glandular- hairy or glahrouB 

 racemes. Sjmr equalling or shorter than the flower, more or less Incurved. Anterior 

 petals deeply 2-fid, densely hairy. Follicles^ straight. 



A West Asiatic form, which we formerly identified with D, penicjUatum, of Boissier, 

 tvho, however, ^nth far better materials before him, considers it distinct! ,: The glabrouf 

 form was found at the Margala pass, near Eawal Pindi, by Major Vicary. 



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