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Ranuxculus aquatills, var. longirostris, Laivson. White 

 Water Crowfoot. In ponds and slow streams, rare. 



Near Truro, Colchester County, Dr. D. A. Campbell. Ditches 

 in Little Marsh, Truro, near Smith's Island, 11th June, 1884, 

 Dr. G. C. Campbell. Of R. aquatilis, many varieties, or species, 

 have been described in Europe, from careful study of the living- 

 plants. The American forms are still imperfectly known, and 

 descriptions have been made, in many cases, from dried specimens. 

 Our plant differs from the European trichojjhyllus (the name 

 used in Gray's Manual) in the brighter but paler green colour of 

 its leaves (not blackish or inky), in the carpels having prominent 

 l)eaks, and in their being not merel}^ rounded but inflated on 

 the peripheral side. 



Ranunculus multifidus, Pursh. Yellow Water Crowfoot. 

 In ditches and shallow muddy pools, rare. 



Windsor, Hants Co., and near Sydney Bar, Caj)e Breton, Dr. 

 How. Truro, in water, in ditches and marshes, common. June, 

 1883, Dr. G. C. Campbell. 



Ranunculus reptans, Linn. Creeping Spearwort. Gravell}^ 

 banks of lakes and rivers. 



Dartmouth. Truro, in fields, low grounds, etc., conunon, Dr. 

 G. C. Campbell. 



Ranunculus Cymbalarl\, Pursh. Seashore Crowfoot. Head 

 of Bedford Basin, Halifax Co., on the shore between Bedford 

 Hotel and the high Railway Bridge. 



Musquodoboit River, Halifax County, 26th June, 1878, Dr. 

 Lindsay. Avon River, Falmouth, Hants, Dr. How. Sable Island, 

 Lindsay & Somers' List. Glace Bay, Cape Breton, H. Poole. 



This is especially a coast plant, growing not only along- oui- 

 vshores but generally on the northern coasts of America, the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, Anticosti, and Hudson Bay to near the Arctic 

 Sea. It has also been found at Lake Superior, Lake Winnipeg, 

 at salt ponds in the prairie, on the Rocky Mountains, and on the 

 Pacific Coast. 



Ranunculus abortivus, Linn. In pastures and clearings ; 



