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MULTISILIQUZ. 
RANUNCULUS ACRIS. UPRIGHT MEADOW 
7 : CROWFOOT. 
SYNONYM4. Ranunculus pratenfis. Pharm. Murray. iii. 75. 
Ranunculus foliis hirfutis femitrilobis, lobis lateralibus bipartitis, 
foliis caulinis femitrilobis. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 1169. Ranun- 
culus pratenfis ere€tus acris. Bauh, Pin, 178. Ger. Emac. 951. 
Park. Theat. 329. Ray. Synop. 248. R.acris. Hudf. Flor. Ang. 
211. Withering. Bot. Arr. 576. Scop. Flor. Carniol. 398. Ie. 
Curt. Flor. Lond. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 699. 
Gen, Ch. . Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5 intra ungues poro mellifero, 
Sem. nuda, | 
Sp. Ch, RB. calycibus patulis, pedunculis teretibus, foliis tripartito- 
multifidis, fummis linearibus,. 
ROOT perennial, confifting entirely of long white flender fibres. 
Stalk erect, branched near the top, round, hairy, about two feet in 
height. Leaves on long upright footftalks, trifid, fubdividing into 
{maller laciniated lobes, marked beneath with {mall prominent reticu- 
Jated veins: at the baie of the peduncles, the leaves are fimple, linear, 
and fringed with hairs. Flowers yellow, terminal, on long round 
hairy peduncles. Calyx of five leaves, which are ovate, {preading, 
hairy, yellowifh. Corolla of five petals, yellow, fhining, heart-fhaped, 
commonly notched at the top. Filaments numerous, fhort, furnifhed 
with yellow inclining anther. Neétatarium, a fmall feale at the 
bafe of each petal. Germina numerous, forming an orbicular head. 
Styles none. Stigmata reflexed. Seeds numerous, roundifh, of a 
brown colour. 
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