72 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
some of them floating; the aerial ones with 3 ribs. Scape racemose, 
with whorled and umbellate pedicels, or only the latter. Flowers 
numerous. Achenes in several rows in a globular head on a 
subglobular receptacle, half-obovate-fusiform-prismatic, acuminateé 
at the apex into a short beak, with 4 corky ribs; the back with 
corky keel. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Pirate MCCCCXL. 
A. ranunculoides, Sim. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 362. Kunth. Enum. Plant. Vol. 
p. 149. (Exclude var. /3.) 
Scapes leafless, erect or ascending, without roots at the point whe 
peduncles are given off. 
(?) Var. 6, repens. Sm. 
Prate MCCCCXLI. 
A. repens, Davies, Welsh Bot. p. 36. Kunth. Enum. Plant. Vol. IIL. p.150. Bor. Fi 
du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 596. 
Scapes, or at least some of them, decumbent, rooting and produeing 
tufts of leaves at the points where the pedicels are given off. 
In ditches and shallow pools. Not very common, but generally 
distributed, except in the north of Scotland. Var. #, in Anglesea and 
on the margins of several lakes in North Wales: not unfrequent i 
Treland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 
to the parent, so that the plant grows in tufts. Early leaves scareely 
stalked, translucent, 1-ribbed; later leaves on stalks sufficiently long 
to raise them out of the water; lamina 1 to 4 inches long, alwa 
attenuated towards the base, thinner and smoother than that 
A. Plantago, and with never more than 3 ribs. Scape rising ou 
the water, more or less curved near the base; the upper part erect 01 
ascending; the length varying from 2 inches to 2 feet. Pedicels at 
length 1} to 3 inches long, numerous in each whorl, and in the umb 
which terminates the scape: sometimes all in a terminal umbel 
Flowers 2 inch across, white or pale lilac, soon fading. Heads of fi 
about the size of peas. Achenes olive, numerous. Plant bright gree 
somewhat shining. 
Var. 2 has the leaves shorter, narrower, and less distinctly stalke 
but is chiefly remarkable for the scapes rooting and producing 
plants at the nodes, with the number of pedicels at each node ra 
Rootstock a very minute corm producing short lateral shoots cle : 
