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Ranunculus pedatus. Cut-leaved 

 Crow-foot. 



Class and Order. 



POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5, intra ungues poro mellifero. Sem. 

 nuda. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Ranunculus pedatus; foliis radicalibus digitato-partitis peda- 

 tisque : lobis Iinearibus subentegerrimis caulinis sessilibus 

 tripartitis, caule erecto paucifloro. 



Ranunculus pedatus; foliis glabris, radicahbus petiolatis tri- 

 partitis pedatisve, lobis Iinearibus integris bifidisve, cau- 

 linis sessilibus partitis, summis Iinearibus, caule erecto 

 paucifloro, calyce adpresso. Decand. Regn. Veget. p. 

 258. 



Ranunculus pedatus; foliis radicalibus ternato-pedatis, ra- 

 meis ternatis, foliolis Iinearibus integerrimis. Waldst. et 

 Kitaib. Hungar. 2. p. 112. t. 108. 



Ranunculus pedatifidus. Smith inRees Cycl? Decand. Regn. 

 Veget. 1. p. 258? 



Entertaining great doubts whether the Ranunculus peda- 

 tifidus of Smith and pedatus of Waldstein and Kitaibel 

 ought to be considered as distinct species, although recorded 

 as such by De Candolle, we transmitted the engraving of 

 our plant to our friend Sir James E. Smith, who kindly com- 

 pared it with his specimens, and informs us, that it appears to 

 be a representation of his pinnatifidus, except in the deeper 

 division and smaller number of lobes of the radical leaves and 

 the want of the soft hairs on the stem, circumstances evidently 

 "able to great variation. That these plants both belong to 



the 



