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and by the turnip-like base of its stem. The 
segments of its leaves are also more slender 
than those of the other two, A. vepens, and R. 
acris. Repens is the Creeping Crowfoot ; it 
sends out long side shoots, s¢o/es, which creep 
and take root ; it is a common weed in gardens. 
Its leaves have rather broad 3-lobed segments 
which are again cut. Acris, the Upright 
Crowfoot, has falmate root-leaves, z.e., with 
lobes like the out-spread hand; its flower 
stalks, peduncles, are round, whereas those of 
repens and bulbosus are furrowed. Audbosus 
alone has the stem bulb-like at the base; its 
receptacle, which is the bed of the flower at 
the top of the stalk, is smooth, g/aérous, where- 
as that of repens and acris is hairy. 
There is another plant of this genus, R. 
parviflorus, which ought to be found in banks, 
and, perhaps, in fields; to be known by its 
very small yellow flowers, roundish leaves, 
upper ones 3-lobed, prostrate creeping stems, 
and seed-vessels, carfels, with hooked prickles. 
It is well worth some trouble to find another 
curious little plant of this Order, the Mouse- 
tail, Myosurus minimus; it has numerous 
rather fleshy, linear leaves, flower stalks 2 to 
