QA ENGLISH BOTANY. 
This plant closely resembles the last, but is usually darker and 
more rigid in the foliage, larger in the flower, and has the carpels 
less inflated at the tip. I have seen specimens of R. trichophyllus 
named ‘ R. circinatus,” or its synonym ‘“ R. divaricatus,” both by 
British and continental botanists; but the latter plant differs by 
its leaves being all in one plane, the peduncles longer and more 
slender, and the flower larger. R. radians (#ev.)=R. Godronii 
(F. Schultz) is rightly referred to R. trichophyllus by Professor 
Babington (Man. ed. v. p. 6). 
Water Crowfoot. 
French, Grenowillette. 
It is the Barpaytor reraproy of Dioscorides (ii. 206). Its handsome, showy flowers 
are very attractive in the ponds and ditches it frequents, sometimes covering the surface 
of the water. It has been remarked that in this plant we have an instance of the 
difference of form between leaves submerged in water and those which gain the 
surface, for underneath the water they differ considerably in form from their natural 
shape when floating on it. This species of Ranunculus does not seem to possess the 
poisonous and deleterious properties of its family. In the Linnean Transactions, vol. v. 
p. 19, Dr. Pulteney asserts that it is not only innoxious but nutritive to cattle, and 
capable of being converted to useful purposes in agricultural economy. In the neigh- 
bourhood of Kingswood, on the banks of the Avon, some of the cottagers support their 
cows and even horses almost entirely on this plant. A quantity is collected every 
morning, and brought in a boat to the water’s edge, from which the cows eat it with 
great avidity ; and so fond are they of this food, that they are obliged to be restricted 
as to quantity. One man kept five cows and one horse entirely on this plant, only half 
a ton of hay being consumed by them through the year, and that was during the time 
(le ponds were frozen over. Pigs may also be kept on this plant, and require no other 
food until put up to fatten. This absence of acrid or poisonous qualities is by some 
accounted for in this species of Ranunculus from the fact of its growing in water, which 
may perhaps interfere with the development of the acrid principle. 
SPECIES IV—RANUNCULUS BAUDOTII. God. 
Puates XXIT. XXIII. 
Godr. in Mém. de PAcad. de Nancy, 1839, Pl. XXI. Fig. 4. Hoch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et 
Helv. ed. ii. p. 434. Bred. Fl. de Normandie, ed. iii. p. 6. 
Submerged leaves petiolate or sessile, ellipsoidal or transversely 
ovoid in outline, divided into diverging comparatively rigid capil- 
lary segments, which spread upwards and downwards as well as 
laterally, and do not collapse on being drawn out of the water. 
loating leaves (often present) alternate, reniform or sub-orbicular 
in outline, very slightly rounded at the basal margin, tripartite, 
occasionally ternate, with stalked leaflets. Segments or leaflets 
not approximate, inversely deltoid or wedge-shaped-obovate, deeply 
