86 XHE BUTTEKCTJP FAMILY. 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 



1. Wood Anemone — {Anemone nemorosa.) 



One of the grand, sweet prodigalities of nature, filling every Avood 

 and little copse in early spring with its graceful, half-pendulous white 



flowers. 



Curtis, i. Ill ; E. B. v. 355 ; Baxter, i. 43. 



The flowers are often rose-coloured, especially on the outside, and occasionally 

 pui'ple, and even blue ; sometimes also double, and now and then with the white 

 sepals half-converted into pinnatifid green leaves. 



2. Pheasant's-eye — {Addnis autumnalis.) 



Very rare. Corn-fields near Hyde and Ashton-upon-Mersey. (Mr. J. 

 Sidebotham.) Fl. July — October. Annual. 



Curtis, i. 110 ; E. B. v. 308 ; Baxter, i. 7. 

 Common in gardens. 



3. Water Snow-cups — (^Ranunculus aqudtilis.) 

 Common in ponds and ditches, west, south, and south-west of Man- 

 chester, as at Bowdon, Stretford, Sale, Hough-end, Bedford, &c., 

 floating upon the surface. Fl. May, June. 



E. B. ii. 101. 



The only British Ranunculus that floats in water, from which circumstance, 

 and the similarity of its blossoms, it is in some places prettily called the water- 

 anemone. Few plants make a more beautiful shew in their season. At the end 

 of May, when the snowy white blossoms are in perfection, they form patches 

 many feet across, growing as close together as plum or cherrj' bloom. The 

 submerged leaves are cut and divided as fine as hair, while the floating ones are 

 round and lobed, presenting the curious spectacle of two varieties of foliage on 

 the same stem. Occasionally the leaves are all of the divided kind, when the 

 plant takes the name oi pdntothrix. It makes an excellent Aquaiium plant. 



4. IvY-iiEAVED Frog-woet — (Ranunculus hedeniceus.) 

 In the mud bordering slow and shallow rivulets, and where water 

 has stood during winter, and left a wet hollow, common. Fl. summer. 

 Curtis, ii. 259 ; E. B. xxviii. 2003. 



5. Mud Feog-wort — {Ranunculus coendsus.) 

 In similar situations at Hough-end, and between Dunham and Car- 

 rington, plentiful. (Mr. Hunt.) Fl. summer. 



