52 POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Ranunculus. 



dark green, hairy, twice ternate ; the upper ones with wedge- 

 shaped, cut leaflets ; uppermost of all in 3 deep, lanceolate, 

 acute, entire lobes. Radical leaves often marked with a black 

 spot. Fl. bright yellow, like those of R. bulbosus, hirsutiis, and 

 others, but the hairy caltjx is spreading, not reflexed. Pet. 

 notched. Nect. covered with a notched scale. Seeds not gene- 

 rally perfected. A double variety is sometimes seen in gardens. 



11. R. acris. Upright Meadow Crowfoot. 



Calyx spreading. Flower-stalks round and even. Leaves 

 in three deep lobed and cut segments ; those of the up- 

 permost linear and entire. Stem erect, covered with 

 close hairs. 



R. acris. Linn. Sp. PL 779. Willd. v. 2. 1326. Fl. Br. 593. Engl. 



Bot. V. 10. t. 652. Curt. Lond.fasc. I. t. 39. Mart. Rust. I. 30. 



TVoodv. suppl. t.246. Hook. Scot. 174. DeCand. Syst.v. \.'177 . 



Bull. Fr. t. 109. Curt. Mag. t. 215, double Jl. 

 R. n. 1169. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 72. 



R. pratensis erectus acris. Bauh. Pin. 1 7^. Raii Si/n. 248. 

 R. luteus. Trag. Hist. 94./. 

 R. octavus. Cord. Hist. 120, 2./,/. 

 R. hortensis secunda. Dod. Pempt. 426./. 

 R. pratensis, surrectis cauliculis. Lob. Ic. 665./ 

 Chrysanthemum. Fuchs. Hist. 879./ 

 Pes corvinus. Brunf, Herb. v. 1. 143, 144./,/ 

 Upright Meadow Crowfoot, Pet H. Brit. t. 38./ 3. 



In meadows and pastures very common ; even on the loftiest 

 mountains. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root somewhat tuberous, with many long simple fibres. Stem 

 2 feet high, erect, round, Iiollow, leafy, clothed with close- 

 pressed hairs, or bristles ; branched above, and many-flowered. 

 Radical leaves on long upright hairy footstalks, in 3 or 5 deep 

 lobes, which are variously subdivided and cut, more or less 

 hairy ; stem-leaves nearly sessile, with fewer and narrower seg- 

 ments ; tippermosl much smaller, in 3 linear entire lobes ; or 

 sometimes simple and linear. Fl. bright yellow, on round even 

 stalks, covered with close hairs, and not furrowed. Cal. hairy, 

 spreading, deciduous. Nect. covered by a scale. Seeds lenti- 

 cular, smooth, with a small, slightly curved, point. 



The small variety, with scarcely more than a soWttiry Jlower, found 

 on the Highland mountains, and brought by Mr. D. Turner from 

 wet rocks near the summit of Snowdon, is not the montanus of 

 Willdenovv, but becomes, with one year's culture in a gar- 

 den, precisely our common acris. It has remained so with me 

 above 20 years. The double-flowered variety is common in 

 gardens, and not inelegant. The synonym of Gerarde, quoted 



