44 POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Ranunculus. 



A. autumnalis. Linn. Sp. PL 77]. Willcl v. 2. \304. Fl. Br. 586- 

 Engl. Bot.v. 5. ^.303. With. 503. Curt. Lond.fasc. 2. t. 37- 

 Wade Dubl. 147. Hook. Scot. 172, 



A. aestivalis. With. 503. 



A. n. 1158 /3. Hull. Hist. v. 2. 66 ; by Sioiss specimetis ; syn. much 

 confused. 



Adonis. Camer. Epit. 647./. Pet. H. Brit. t. 39./ 8. 



Flos Adonis. Raii Sijji. 251. Clus. Hist. v. 1.336./. Lob. Zc. 283./. 



F.Adonis, flore rubro. Park.Parad. 293. /. 291./. 5. Ger. Em. 

 387./.^ 



In corn-fields, but not common. 



About London. Huds. and Curtis. Near Denver sluice, Norfolk. 

 Mrs. Plestoiv. Gloucestershire. Miss Lysons. About Dublin. 

 Dr. Wade. Occasionally about Glasgow. Mr. Hopkirk. 



Annual. May — October. 



Root tapering. Stem erect, branched, often bushy, round, striated, 

 leafy, rarely a little downy. Leaves dark green, alternate, ses- 

 sile, triply and copiously pinnatifid, with linear, acute, smooth 

 segments. Fl. of a deep shining crimson, with a black spot 

 near the ciaw of each petal, and dark-violet anthers. Seeds 

 corrugated, composing an oblong-ovate head, not an inch long. 

 The petals vary in number from 6 to 10, but are inversely heart- 

 shaped, scarcely longer than the calyx, which is usually smooth. 



A. cEstivalis of Linnaeus, under which the miniata, and perhaps 

 flammea, of Jacquin, Fl. Auslr. t. 354, 355, may be ranged, is a 

 very distinct species, known by its mostly 5, narrow, scarlet 

 petals^ long and slender spike of see(/s; and less bushy habit. 

 This has never been found in England; for specimens sent by 

 my late worthy friend Dr. Withering show his (Estivalis to be but 

 a starved and paler autumnalis. 



279. RANUNCULUS. Crowfoot. 



Linn. Gen. 281. Juss. 233. Fl. Br. 587. Sm. in Rees's Cycl.v. 29. 



Tourn. t. 149, A— C, G— L. Lam. t. 498. Gecrtn. t. 74. Be- 



Cand. Syst. v. 1 . 23 1 . 

 Ficaria. Dill. Gen. \08.t. o. Huds.2i4. Juss. 233. DeCand. 



Syst.v. 1. 304. 



Nat. Orel, see 7i. 270—273, and 275—282. 



Cal. inferior, of 5, rarely fewer, ovate, concave, somewhat 

 coloured, deciduous leaves. Pet. 5, rarely 8 or 10, ob- 

 tuse, polished, with short broad claws. Nect. a pore to- 

 wards the base of each petal, in several instances covered 

 by a scale. Filam. numerous, rarely but 5, not half the 

 length of the petals. Anth. roundish, linear, or heart- 

 shaped, terminal, erect, of 2 cells, bursting at the outer 

 edges. Germ, superioi", numerous, collected into a head. 



