Tas. 7266. 
RANUNCULUS oazparicus. 
Native of Transylvania. 
Nat. Ord. Ranunovtace#.—Tribe RaNUNCULEA. 
Genus Ranuncutvs, Linn. ; (Benth. et-Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 5.) 
RaNUNcvuvs carpaticus ; rhizomate horizontali crasso, caule simplici erecto 
1-3-folio 1-2-floro basi appresse piloso, foliis sparse pilosis, radicalibus 
longe petiolatis palmati-partitis segmentis fissis et crenato-dentatis, 
caulinarum inferiore breviter petiolato radicalibus subsimili, superioribus 
sessilibus amplexicaulibus, summo 3-5-partito segmentis integerrimis, 
sepalis patulis patentim pilosis, petalis duplo longioribus aureis, toro 
spherico setoso, acheniis reniformi-obovoideis subcompressis glabris rostro 
hamato puberulo duplo longioribus. 
R. carpaticus, Herbich. Sel. Pl. Rar. Gallic. 15; Walp. Rep. i. 34; Schott. 
in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 393. : 
R. Gouanii, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1322 ex parte; Bawmg. Enum, Stirp. 
Magn. Transylv. indig. ii. 125. 
R. montanus, var. dentatus, Bauwmg. l. e. 124. : 
R. carpaticus is confined to subalpine forests in the moun- 
tains of Eastern Hungary, bordering Roumelia, at eleva- 
tions of four thousand to five thousand feet, where it 
represents R. montanus, Willd., and Gouanit, Willd., of 
the more western Alps and Pyrenees. It is a much larger 
flowered plant than either of these, and is indeed one of 
the largest flowered European species, though in this 
respect it varies a good deal, the flower of some specimens 
in the Herbarium at Kew being nearly double the size of 
others. 
Professor Janka, on the ticket of a specimen received at 
Kew Herbarium in 1864 has given Rf. aduncus, Gren. and 
Godr. Fl. Franc. (vol. i. p. 32) a native of the Alps, as a 
synonym, but that plant is described as never having 
amplexicaul leaves, and it has petiolulate leaf-segments, and 
a much longer beak of the achene. 
The specimen figured was received at the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, in 1891, from Professor Romer, of Kronstadt, in 
Hungary, and it flowered in the Herbaceous ground in 
May of this year. 
Novemser Ist, 1892, 
