482 ORD. XXXVI. Muliisilique. 
RANUNCULUS ACRIS UPRIGHT MEADOW 
CROWFOOT. 
SYNONYM4A. Ranunculus pratensis. Pharm, Murray. iii. 75. 
Ranunculus foliis hirsutis semitrilobis, lobis lateralibus bipartitis, 
foliis caulinis semitrilobis. Hail. Stirp. Helv. n. 1169. Ranun- 
culus pratensis erectus acris. Bauh, Pin. 178. Ger. Emac. 951. 
Park. Theat. 329. Ray. Synop. 248. R. acris. Huds, Flor. 
Ang. 211. Withering Bot. Arr. 576. Scop. Flor. Carniol. 398. 
Ic. Curt. Flor. Lond. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 699. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5 intra ungues poro mellifero, 
Sem. nuda. 
Sp. Ch. R. calycibus patulis, pedunculis teretibus, foliis tripar- 
titomultifidis, summis linearibus. 
ROOT perennial, consisting entirely of long white slender fibres. 
Stalk erect, branched near the top, round, hairy, about two feet in 
height. Leaves on long upright footstalks, trifid, subdividing into 
smaller laciniated lobes, marked beneath with small prominent 
reticulated veins: at the base of the peduncles, the leaves are 
simple, linear, and fringed with hairs. Flowers yellow, terminal, 
on long round hairy peduncles. Calyx of five leaves, which are 
ovate, spreading, hairy, yellowish. Corolla of five petals, yellow, 
shining, heart-shaped, commonly notched at the top. Filaments 
numerous, short, furnished with yellow inclining anthere. Nec- 
tarium, a small scale at the base of each petal. Germina nume- 
rous, forming an orbicular head. Styles none. Stigmata re- 
flexed. Seeds numerous, roundish, of a brown colour. 
