498" 
hirsu’tus, 
bulbo’sus, 
POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Ranunculus, 
R. Root fibrous: stem hairy: calyx pimpled, hairy, taper 
ponies at length reflected. (Curris.) 
Curit.—F. B. iii. 417. 3. 
Stem more branched and spreading ; hairs stiffer and longer 
than in R. bulbosus. Leaf-stalks of the lower leaves hollow, and 
if cut asunder, the nerves appear projecting into the inside of 
the tube. Leaves, lobes 3 more distinct, the middle sua outer- 
most rounder ir ‘ess deaty divided at the edges, the side ones 
with a portion as if cut out from the inner edge ; ym mee! with 
irregular pale or whitish spots, and the upper su ith 
projecting points, from which the hairs arise. Flower vs more 
numerous, smaller, and seeds smaller than in R. du/bosus. Curr. 
Rows fibres lon thick, white. Root-leaves either entire of 
the middle leafit on a leaf-stalk.. _ Flowers pale yellow. 
Wooswras 
Mr. Chek: a it not an uncommon plant, but that its 
= calyx has upon botanists, bo from that cir it~ 
mstance have iecddensa it as the R. dulbosu 
Bale clayey places, where water’ has sions ‘during the win- 
ter. Salt ma arshes near Gravesend. Ray.—Various places about 
plentifully by the sea side on the sore. Aas banks about South+ 
ampton. Curt.—Road sides, rubbish, inc oe 088 bee i 
[Amongst corn in a cla sgt a pep a ar 
marshes, Yarmouth. Mr. Woopwarp.} A. June Sef E 
R. Root bulbous: calyx reflected: fruit- Va. furrowed : 
stem upright, rany-flowered: leaves compound.” 
E, bot. 515—Mill. ill.-Curt.-Kniph. 7-Walc.-Fl. dan. 551= 
Dod. 431. 1-Lob. obs. 380. 3, and ic. Ay 667. 1-Gere 
953. 6~Park. 329. 5—Pet. 38.4—-Fuchs. 160-F. Be iike 
417. 4—Ger. 806.°6~Matth. 614. 
Root globular, fibrous at the base. Stems a foot high Soc 
right, bare at the base, towards the top leafy, and branche 
Lyons.. Calyx at the Salen thin and semi-tran 
never throwing out suckers like the R. repens. ee “Uy a ; 
leaves, divisions strap-shaped. Bulb formed d above Se 
last ad When i it comes into flower, the old one, in eee 
in a state under the new one, and suf- 
may 
rounded by the fibres, but without the least appearance of suckers 
proceeding from either of them. In a turf containing 6 pl 
the roots were all distinct, excepting one, which ie 
its size, to be a seedling, with the old bulbs at 
has given ample gene to its capability of almost alone support vin 
orses, cows, and pigs in good condition, and the an om eat 1 
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