88 FLORA OF NOVA SCOTIA — LAWSON. 



doubtful if intlii^^euous iu Nova Scotia. LucyrieM, sparingly 

 spontaneous. 



Pictou, A. H. Mackay. Near Truro, Dr. ]). A. Caniphcll. 

 Truro, cultivated fields, connnon, Dr. G. C. Campbell. 



Ranunculus acrls, Linn. A European plant, now conniKjn 

 in hay-fields and by roadsides in many parts of Nova Scotia, as 

 on the Halifax peninsula, about Truro and other places in Col- 

 chester, Caledonia, Queen's County, etc. Animals reject this 

 species, but greedily eat the herbage of R. repens. 



Windsor, Hants, Dr. How. Pictou, A. H. Mackay. Port Mul- 

 grave. Rev. E. H. Ball. Truro, very abundant in grass on 

 roadsides, etc.. Dr. G. C. Campbell. 



Ranunculus repens, Linn. In fields and wet pastures, etc.^ 

 abundant ; a weed in gardens. A small, depressed, smooth- 

 leaved form, with flowers no larger than those of acris and 

 sometimes smaller, occurs on the sea-shore around Bedford Basin. 



Windsor, Dr. How. Truro, in fields, low grounds, etc., com- 

 mon. Dr. G. C. Campbell. Pictou, A. H. Mackay. Port Mul- 

 grave. Rev. E. H. Ball. 



R. septentrionalis, Poiret, credited by Macoun to Whycoco- 

 magh, Cape Breton, was in former editions of Gray's Manual, 

 included under R. repens. It is now treated as a separate spe- 

 cies, being distinguished apparently by the following characters : 



R. repens: style subulate, stigmatose along the inner margin, 

 mostly persistent. 



R. septentrionalis : style long and attenuate, stigmatose at the 

 tip, persistent, or the upper part usually deciduous. 



In Coulter's Manual of the Western Texas Flora (1891), the 

 differences are expressed thus : 



R. repSns : st^de short-subulate, stigmatic the whole length, 

 mostly persistent. 



R. septentrionalis : style long and attenuate, stigmatic at the 

 tip, persistent, or the upper part deciduous. 



So far as observed, none of the specimens of so-called repens, 

 collected in Nova Scotia, respond to the character recpiired by 

 septentriovalis. 



