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Ranunculus Aconii ifolius. Mountain 

 Crowfoot, or Fair. Maids of France. 



Cla/s and Order. 



POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic Character. ■* 



Cii/.5-phyllus. P^ta/d 5-intra ungues poromellifero. Sem. nuda, 



Specific Char a tier and Synonyms. 



RANUNCULUS aconitifolius foliis omnibus quinatis lanceo- 

 latis incilb-ferratis. Linn. Syji. Vegetab.eL 

 14. Murr. p. 516. Ait. Keiv. v. 1. p. 267. 



RANUNCULUS folio aconiti, Hore albo multiplied Bank. 

 Pin. 179. 



RANUNCULUS montanus aibus flore pleno. The double 

 white mountain Crowfoot. Park. Parad< 

 />. 219. /. 9. 



Double white Bachelors Buttons. Ger. Herb. p. 012. y. !• 



This is one of thofe plants which derives its beauty from 

 the multiplication of its petals ; in its fingle ftate no one 

 would think it deferving of culture as an ornamental plant, 

 when double, few plants come in for a greater fhare of ad- 

 miration. 



It is a native of the Alps of Europe, and flowers m 

 May and June. 



Was very generally cultivated in our gardens in the times 

 of Guurd and Parkinson. 



Like mod alpine plants, it requires a pure air, and juc- 

 ceeds belt in a fituation moderately moift and toady ! i s a 

 hardy perennial, and may be increafed by parting its ro° ts 

 in autumn. ft 



In all feafons, with us, its foliage, as well as that of mo 

 other Crowfoots, is liable to be disfigured, and fomeuij^ 

 nearly deflroyed, by a very fmall maggot which feeds e ' 

 twixt the coats of the leaf, and which ultimately produce 

 a fmall fly, called bv us Mujca Ranunculi, 



