8 | RANUNCULACES. 
*** Stems short, simple. Leaves usually all radical. 
[Ranunculus. 
a 
Scapes 1-flowered 
(1-3-flowered in R. Haastii, and sometimes 2-flowered in R. Hnysit). 
Glabrous, 6-15 in. high. Leaves 3—5-foliolate. Scapes 1-5. 
Achenes ovoid ; style short, straight or curved a 
Pilose or nearly glabrous, 6-15 in. high. Leaves 3- 5. 
partite. Achenes fusiform, narrowed into a long spirally 
recurved style a : a ‘- LO: 
Short, stout, glabrous, almost stemless. Leaves all radical, 
fleshy or coriaceous, palmatipartite or 3-foliolate or 
3-5-lobed. 
Leave: few, coriaceous, palmatipartite; segments 
laciniate. Scape 1-3-flowered, with crowded laci- 
niate bracts under the flowers .. gsiplals 
Leaves biternately multifid, glaucous and fleshy ; seg- 
ments 7, in. long. Scape shorter than the leaves .. 12. 
Leaves many, 3-partite; segments lobed. Scape 
shorter than the leaves is) 
Leaves 1-3, 3-lobed; segments toothed or or dtaeee 
Scape longer than the leaves : 14. 
Small. Leaves orbicular- reniform, 3-lobed to the 
middle; lobescrenate. Scape longer than the leaves 15. 
Small. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets lobed or partite. 
Scape longer than the leaves a ote eagle 
Stout orsl-nder; silky, pilose, or glabrate. Leaves all radi- 
cal, pinnate, pinnatisect, or pinnately multifid. 
Stout. Leaves tripinnatisect, usually copiously ay 
Scape stout. Flower large : Lv(é 
Slender, almost glabrous. Leaves bipinnatisect or 
multifid; segments very narrow. Scape slender. 
Flowers small . ae ie .. 18. 
Slender, pilose. Leaves pinnate ; " pinne 3-lobed or 
-partite ; segments oblong or cuneate. Scape slender. 
Flowers small .. a), aie Pa? sp LO: 
R. Enysu. 
R. tenwicaulis. 
R. Haastii. 
R. crithmifolius 
RB. chordorhizos. 
R. paucifolius. 
R. Berggreni. 
R. nove - zea- 
landie. 
R. sericophyllus. 
R. Sinclairii. 
R. gracilipes. 
C. Stems not creeping. Achenes glabrous, compressed, with a thickened 
margin, not muricate. (Achenes sometimes obscurely compressed, but 
always thinner than wm the previous section. The margins are said to be 
not thickened in R, aucklandicus.) 
Stems branched, leafy, 6-24in. high. Leaves trifoliolate 
or biternate. ‘Sepals reflexed a sey OE 
Small, stemless, 1fin. high at most. Leaves rosulate, 
3-lobed or -partite, exceeding the flower a einai 
Slender, 3-6in. high. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets all 
stalked, obtuse. Achenes few, 3-5 .. 22. 
Stems short, simple. Leaves all radical, usually toothed 
or 3-5- lobed, rarely partite. Scapes - 5, longer than 
the leaves. Sepals spreading 23. 
Stems branched, hirsute, leafy. Leaves coarsely toothed 
or 3 lobed. Scapes radical and axillary, not exceeding 
the leaves .. ugQas 
Erect or suberect, clothed with short stiff appressed hairs. 
Leaves deltoid- cordate, 3-partite. Scapes 1—-3-flowered, 
longer or shorter than the leaves. Sepals spreading .. 25. 
Erect, clothed with strigose pubescence. Leaves rounded, 
3- partite. Scapes 1 or 2, each with 1-3 flowers . 26. 
Erect, strigose-hirsute. Leaves rounded- reniform, 3- -part- 
ite. Scapes 1-3, 1-flowered. Achenes compressed, 
margins not thickened me ni 56 FEW 
R. hirtus. 
R. recens. 
R. Kirkw. 
R. lappaceus.. 
R. foliosus. 
R. subscaposus. 
R. Hectort. 
R. aucklandicus.. 
