28 RANUNCULACE.l . 



HAB. Kagi : Arizan. 



Tlie present plant appears very near to If. Cymbalaria PARSH and 

 also to R. flaccidus ; but differs from the former in the shape of the flowers 

 and especially in having very few carpels, and from the Litter in the hairy 

 form of the plant. 



3. Ranunculus ternatus THUNB. FL Jap. p. 241 ; FORBES et HEMSL. 

 Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 16 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 14 ; DIELS Fl. Centr. Chin, in 

 Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 334 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Euum. PL Formos. p. 0. 



Ranunculus extorris HANCE, in " Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 me serie V. p. 204." 



Ranunculus Zuccarinii MIQ. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. III. p. 5 ; 

 MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 193; FRANCE, et SAV. Eiium. PL Jap. I. p. 8, et n. 

 p. 267 ; S. Moults in Journ. Bot. (1878) p. 129. 



HAB. Tamsni. 



DISTRIB. Japan, central China, Shanghai, Ningpo. 



4. Ranunculus acris LINN. Sp. PL ed-2, p. 779 ; WILLD. Sp. PL II. p. 

 1326; English Botany t. 652; LEDEB. "FL Alt. n. p. 331," et Fl. Boss. 

 I. p. 40; DC. Prodr. I. p. 39; MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 193; FRANCII. et 

 SAV. En urn. PL Jap. II. p. 266 ; FRANCHET PL David, p. 19 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Lid. FL Sin. I. p. 13 ; DIELS FL Ceutr. Chin, in ENGL. Bot, 

 Jahrk XXIX. p. 334 ; Pro et MAT.SUM. Tent. FL Lutcli. in Journ. Sci. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, XII. p. 274 ; PALIBIN Couspect. Fl. Korea) p. 16 ; 

 MATSUM. et HAYATA Euum. PL Formos. p. 7. 



Ranunculus japonicus THUNB. in Trans. Linu. Soc. H. (1794) p. 337. 



Ranunculus propinquus C. A. MEY in LEDEB. " Fl. Alt. II. p. 332," ut 

 FL Boss. I. p. 40 ; MAXIM. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 20. 



Ranunculus propinquus var. hirsutus A. (TRAY Bot. Jap. in Mem. Am. 

 Acad. YI. (1859) p. 378. 



HAB. Keluug. 



DISTRIB. Europe, Siberia, China, Japan and North Africa. 



5. Ranunculus japonicus LANGSD. ex. FISCH. in DC 1 . Prodr. I. p. 38 ; 

 FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 14; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enuin. PL 

 Formos. p. 8. 



