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- 4, R. lappaceus. Sm. in Rees Cycl. n. 61. De Cand. Prodr. 
v. i. p. 39 ?—R. plebeius. Br. in De Cand. Prodr. v. i. p. 39? 
- Mr. Lawrence, (n. 10, 1831.—n. 146.) — Mr. Gunn, (n. 90.) 
Our specimens quite agree with the descriptions in Rees’ 
Cyclopedia. De Candolle compares the species to the Afri- 
can R. pinnatus: Sir J. E. Smith, its original describer, 
with much correctness, to R. acris. Indeed some of the 
individuals can hardly be distinguished from that species. 
Sometimes the radical leaves are quite simple, 3-lobed, and 
incised, sometimes ternate, with the middle leaflet nearly 
sessile or on a long footstalk; roots of long dense fasciculated 
fibres. Flowers large: petals 5, broadly obovate, obtuse. 
Carpels orbicular, compressed, margined, terminated by a 
style nearly equal to it in length, revolute at the apex. 
May not De Candolle who, contrary to Smith, calls the 
leaves * pinnatisecta,” and. * pinnatifida,” have confounded 
the following species with it? 
5. R. pimpinellifolius, n. sp. ; gracilis flaccidus patenti-hir- 
sutus, foliis radicalibus longissime petiolatis pinnatis, foliolis 5 
ovatis brevi-petiolulatis incisis terminali latiore trifidis vel 
tripartitis caulinis ternatis petiolatis, caule paucifolio, floribus 
parvis, petalis (5) flavis, calyce membranaceo setoso-piloso, 
carpellis immaturis stylo uncinato terminatis.—an R. lap- 
paceus, De Cand. non Sm. ? 
Mr. Gunn,—in whose collection it is mixed with n. 90, 
R. lappaceus, from which, however, it is totally distinct. 
Flowers hardly 1 the size; the radical leaves, which are on 
petioles a span long, are constantly pinnated and of a flaccid 
texture, 
6. R. glabrifolius, n. sp. ; foliis radicalibus glabris petiolatis 
profunde tripartitis, foliolis cuneatis incisis rarius bi-trifidis, 
caule paucifolio 1—2-floro, calyce apiceque pedunculi ap- 
presse pilosis, petalis (flavis) 10—12 oblongis. 
Mr. Gunn, (n. 157.)— Three to 5 inches high, with the 
habit of small alpine specimens of R. acris, but different in 
the foliage, and especially in the petals, which are always 
numerous and oblong. The fruit I have not seen. 
