Mamncuhs,] RANUNCUL ACE^. 21 



mostly 5, but sometimes 6 or 7. Carpels large, collected into a globose head, roundish, or inclining to 

 obovate, compressed, quite glabrous, marginated, the margin tapering upwards into a recurved filiform style, 

 flat, broad, and membranous at the base, about equal in length with the carpel. 



Dr. Bigelow, or Muhlenberg in Bigelow's Flora of Boston, is the authority for H. fascicutans ; and oiu" 

 Canadian specimens in every particular agree with those I have received from Dr. Bigelow and Dr. Boott, 

 from Boston. Schlechtendal appears to have seen quite another plant in Willdenow's Herbarium, under 

 this name, which hehas figured in his " Animadversationes," and our specimens of the following species so 

 entirely agree with it, that I have ventured to consider them the same. 



28. R, Schlechtendalii ; patente-pilosus, caule subramoso brevi, foliis lonn-e petiolatis 

 cordato-reniformibus tripartitis, lobis obovatis trifidis laciniatisve, sepalis pilosis patentibus 

 demum reflexis corolla brevioribus, stylo germinibus subeeque longo. — R. fascicularis. 

 Schlecht Animadv. Sect. 2. p, 30. L 2, 



Radix fasciculatim fibrosa. Caules spithamsei, 2, 3, vel 4 ex eadem radice, superne ramosi, parce foliosi, 

 pilosi, pilis patentibus, versus basin etiam reflexl. Folia subhirsuta, ciliata, omnia petiolata, mollia ; radi- 

 calia petiolls longissimis; omnia (nisi in summitate caulis, ubi lanceolata trifida vel subiutegra,) cordata vel 

 reniformia, tripartita, segmentis obovatis, lateralibus bilobis, lobis bi-trifidis, intermedio trifido, laciaiis acutis. 

 Floras majusculi. Sepala membranacea, patentia, demum reflexa, petalis breviora. Petala obovata, liueata. 

 Fructus non vidi, sed pistiUomm stylus longiusculus, subcurvatus. 



Hab. Eastern declivity of the Rocky Mountains, between lat. 52<* and 56°, in rich soils : plentiful. 

 Drummond. — This plant agrees in every particular, as far as I can judge without fruit, with the description 

 and figure above quoted of Schlechtendal*s R. fascicularis, except that his figure represents a slenderer 

 plant, and one of the leaves has the middle lobe petiolated, and the calyx not reflexed. The rest of the foliage, 

 the flowers, the patent hairs, the fasciculated root, and whole habit entirely correspond, — The species like- 

 wise approaches in habit luxuriant states of i2. Eschsclioltzii, but the leaves and stalks of R. ScJUechtetidaUi 

 are always hairy, and its calyx is never clothed with fulvous haii-s. 



29. 72. hulbosus; foliis longe petiolatis ternatis quinato-pinnatisve, foliolis tri-quinque- 

 partitis, laciniis trifidis vel incisis, caule erecto basi bulboso, calyce reflexo, petalis obcor- 

 datis brevioribus. — Linn, Sp. PL p. 778. Pursk, M. Am, v, 2. p, 398. Engl Bot t 15. 

 De Cand, Prodr. v, 1. p. 41. 



Hab. Canada, Lady Dalhousie. Newfoundland. Mr. Morrison, 



30. R, orthorhynchus ; appresso-pilosus, caule erecto gracili superne ramoso et subfolioso, 

 foliis radicalibus petiolatis ternatis, foliolis lineari-multifidis apicibus albo-callosis, calyce 

 reflexo, stylo carpellis longiore recto stricto. (Tab. IX.) 



Radix fasciculatim fibrosa, fibris crassis, descendentibus. Totaplanta pilis sparsis, arete appressis, rigidis 

 tecta. Caulis pedalis ad sesquipedalem, erectus, gracilis, superne dichotome ramosus, ad divisiones ramorum 

 foliosus, ceteroquin nudus. Folia plerumque radicalia, sublonge petiolata, circumsrriptione ovata, tematim-pin- 

 natifida, foliolis in laciniis plurimis, linearibus, acutis, apicibus callosis, pinnatifidis partitis : Caulina sessilia, 

 laciniis magis angusta. Pedunculi graciles, elongati. Calyx sepalis ovalibus reflexis, corolla duplo brevioribus. 

 Petala ovalia, flava, majuscula. Capitula subrotunda, laxa. Carpella hXe semi-ovata, compressa, minute 

 punctata, marginata, stylo vel rostro carpellis longiore, recto, stricto, sensim attenuata. 



Hab. Not unfrequent on the low points of land near rivers, in North-West America. Douglas. — This 

 most distinct and interesting species of Ranunculus is remarkable for the deeply cleft segments of its leaves, 



and their linear lobes, which rather resemble those of some species o*^ -* " " '' ' 



than any of the North American kinds oi Ranunculus, 



Tab. IX. R. orthorhynchus. Fig, 1, Q^^sxHie :— magnified. 



Anemone 



