RANUNCULACE^ 3 



terminal raceme, and flower-stalk reflexed after flowering. 

 The remaining alpine or sub-alpine species, often difficult 

 to distinguish, are as follows : — 



T, minuSy L. ; leaves ternate, stem geniculate, flowers 

 in branched panicles. T. maJuSy Jacq. ; very much resem- 

 bling the last, but larger. T, fcetzdum, L. ; the whole 

 plant covered with numerous glandular hairs ; local. T. 

 simplex, L. (Pyrenees) ; a dwarf plant, with the flowers 

 almost buried in the leaves. T. saxatile, DC. (Valais), 

 {T. alpestre^ Gaud.); a small species with leaves crowded 

 towards the middle of the stem. T. alpicolum, Jord. 

 {Bauhini, Crntz.); (very local), with numerous flowers 

 in dense panicles. T. augustifoliiimy L. (Jura, Southern 

 Tirol, Dauphiny) ; flowers in a pyramidal panicle, stamens 

 pendant. 



T. flavum^ L., our English Meadow Rue, is common 

 in wet places ; and the nearly allied T. exaltatum, Gaud., 

 is found on the shores of Lake Lugano. T. macrocarpumy 

 Gren., with swollen carpels, and T. tuberosum, L., with 

 yellowish flowers and large persistent sepals, occur also 

 in the Pyrenees. 



4. Anemone, L. 



Sepals 4-20, imbricate, petaloid; petals o; leaves all 

 radical ; stem with three or more leaf-like bracts. 



Besides our own A. nemorosa^ L., Wood Anemone or 

 Windflower, and A. Pulsatilla, L., Pasque-flower, with 

 purple flowers, neither of which is alpine, the following 

 species occur in Switzerland : — 



A. Flowers in umbels of 2-10, surrounded by an 

 involucre: — . .. fiarcissiflora, L. ; flowers 3-6, white; 

 Alps, Jura, Pyrenees. 



