Plants of the Punjab. 349 
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Heres, Erect, with ALTERNATE Exstrpunate Lospep Lravas. 
Adonis 
chrysocyathus, 
RANUNCULACESR. 
BS Bieae 25; 
Himalaya, in 
Chamba and 
Kashmir. 
Adonis 
serobiculata, 
RANUNCULACER. 
fo Be Es Th: 
Kishtwar (Stewart). 
Ranunculus, 
hirtellus, 
RANUNCULACER. 
By Bil 18: 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Mahasu, Narkanda 
(Collett), 
Ranunculus 
sceleratus, 
Celery-leaved 
Buttercup 
or Crow-foot, 
RANUNCULACER. 
BBt i wis 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
River bed below 
Paniah, Simla, 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
Peshawar, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, perennial, rootstocks horizontal, scaly, stems 
several, leafy ; radical leaves 3-6 in., much lobed and divid- 
ed, segments narrowly linear ; flowers 2 in. diam., yellow, 
sepals 7-8, ovate with a broad tip, many-nerved, petals 
16-24, twice the sepals in length, narrowly ovate with a 
broad tip, blunt, not spreading at first, stamens many ; 
fruit of many carpels in a dense head, 2 in. diam., carpels 
smooth, flattened in front, convex and keeled behind, not 
angular, swollen, style tapering, bent back. 
very like Adonis estivalis, but the achenes are more 
sharply angled with a flattened collar at the base. 
small to medium size, perennial, slightly hairy, branch- 
ed, many-flowered ; radical leaves 1}-2 in. diam., deeply 
83-lobed, heart-shaped, long-stalked, segments coarsely 
toothed, often lobed, stem leaves digitately 8-5-fid, seg- 
ments narrow, entire or toothed near the tip ; flowers 4 in. 
diam., yellow, in branching racemes, sepals 5, green, soon 
falling off, petals 5, with a glandular spot at the base, 
stamens many, fruit oblong, of many carpels, carpels 
sometimes flattened, crowned by the style, which is some- 
times hooked. Closely allied to Goldilocks, Ranunculus 
auricomus of Britain. 
small to large, annual, smooth, yellowish-green, stem 
stout, hollow, leaves radical, 4-1? in. diam., stalked, deeply 
divided into 8 wedge-shaped segments, segments lobed, 
bluntly toothed near the top, stem leaves sessile, flowers 3-1 
in diam,, pale yellow, many, sepals equal in length to the 
petals, reflexed, achenes many, small, blunt, or pointed, 
smooth, in oblong to eylindrical heads ; for other characterg 
see the last species, ‘This plant is acrid and is sometimes 
used to raise blisters, It is found on wet ground. 
