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Ranunculus Acris Flore Pleno. 

 Double Upright Crowfoot. 



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C/tf/} <^<i Order. 



POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic Charatler. 

 jOal. 5-phyllus. Pctala 5, intra ungues poro mellifero. Sem. 

 nuda. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 

 RANUNCULUS ^mcalycibuspatulis, pedunculis teretibus, 

 foliis tripartito multifidis : fummis lineari- 

 bus- Linn. Syji. Vcg. ed. 14. Murr. />- 517- 

 RANUNCULUS hortenfis eredus ilore pleno. Baiih. Pin. 



p. 178. ?. 

 RANUNCULUS pratenfis flore multiplici. Park. Parad. p. 



218. 

 The double yellow field Crowfoot. 



In giving a reprefentation of this fpecies of Ranunculus, we 

 have made a flight deviation from the ftri6t letter of our plan, 

 as expreffed in the title. page, which confines us to the figuring 

 of foreign plants only ; we have thought, however, that it 

 would not be inconfiltent with the fpirit of the Flower-Garden 

 Difplayedy were we occafionally to introduce fuch Englifh 

 plants as have double flowers, and which, on that account, 

 are thought worthy of a place in every garden ; they are but 

 few in number, and we flatter ourfelves that this trifling altera- 

 tion will be approved by our numerous readers. 



The Ranunculus acris is the firft that we offer of thefe ; a 

 plant, in its wild and fingle Mate, common in all our rich 

 meadows, and in its improved, or to fpeak more botanically, 

 in its monflrous ftate (all double flowers being monfters, for the 

 moft part formed from the preternatural multiplication of their 

 petals) it has long been cultivated in gardens abroad, as well as 

 here. 



There are certain ornamental plants of the perennial kind, 

 which, if once introduced, will fucceed with the lead poflible 

 trouble, and therefore iuit fuch as have little time to beftow on 

 their flower-gardens ; the prefent plant is one of thofe : if the 

 foil in which we plant it be moift, it will grow moft readily, 

 and flower during the months of June and July ; and it is eafiiv 

 increased, by parting its roots in autumn. 



