10 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. | Ranunculacee. 
radicalibus plurimis 4-2 unc. longis longe petiolatis trifidis trilobis tripartitisve, segmentis late obovatis 
v. cuneatis obtusis integerrimis v. grosse crenatis, scapis plurimis erectis demum curvatis teretibus appresse 
sericeo-pilosis foliis plerumque longioribus, floribus solitariis parvis 2-4 lin. diametr., sepalis 5 patenti- 
recurvis pilosis, petalis 5-6 oblongis obtusis basi fovea nectarifera instructis, receptaculo piloso, carpellis 
compressis marginatis stylo uncinato terminatis. Tas. V. 
Var. a; sericeo-pilosa, foliis integris lobatis crenatisve basi cuneatis v. cordatis, scapis plurimis 
elongatis. 
Var. 8; sericeo-pilosa, foliis 3-sectis, segmentis ovatis cuneatisve, scapis plurimis elongatis v. petiolum 
eeguantibus. 
Var. y; coriaceo-carnosa, pilosa v. glabrata, foliis cordatis trilobis rarius integris, scapis paucis folio 
brevioribus. 
Haz. Northern and Middle Islands. East coast and interior, in various localities ; also on the moun- 
tains, Colenso. Canterbury, Lyall. Var. y. Mountains; Tetiokara; Hawkes Bay, Colenso. 
A small species, never exceeding four to five inches in height, very variable in habit. Characteristic specimens 
are covered with appressed or spreading silky hairs. Leaves all from the root, half an inch long or so, entire or lobed 
or divided into three segments to the base in large specimens, which then resemble R. žirtus. Scapes many, slender, 
erect, spreading laterally, and curving when in fruit. Flowers and fruit as in R. hirtus. In the variety y, the 
whole plant is very fleshy, with scattered spreading hairs and but few short scapes, the flowers befng actually sunk 
among the leaves. It appears a very different species, but I have many specimens showing how the common form 
becoming stunted and less hairy passes into the var. y—Puare V. Fig. 1, flower; 2, petal; 3, stamen; 4 and 5, 
carpels :—all magnified. 
** Stems generally creeping; whole plant perfectly smooth. Flowers usually solitary on scapes. Carpels smooth. 
7. Ranunculus macropus, Hook. fil.; glaberrimus, repens ?, caule crasso elongato erecto parce ramoso, 
foliis longissime petiolatis flabelliformi 3-5-sectis circumscriptione late reniformibus (2-3 unc. diametr.), 
segmentis elongato-cuneatis inciso-crenatis, pedunculis oppositifoliis elongatis 1-floris, sepalis 5 concavis 
membranaceis, petalis 5-7 obovato-cuneatis sepalis 3 longioribus abbreviatisve brevi-unguiculatis basi fovea 
nectarifera instructis, carpellis glaberrimis receptaculo tumido insertis immarginatis, stylo recto. Hook. fil. 
im Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 634. 
Has. East coast of the Northern and Middle Islands, growing in pools and marshes. Poverty Bay, 
Colenso. Canterbury, Lyall. 
Plants one to two feet long, quite smooth and succulent. Petioles sometimes eighteen inches long. Leaves 
reniform, 3—5-parted. Flowers small, yellow, on long peduncles from the axils of the leaves; sepals concave, blunt ; 
petals sometimes very small and almost wanting (as figured in the “Tcones Plantarum’), generally five to seven, 
linear-oblong, blunt, yellow. Receptacle swollen as if inflated, covered with smooth carpels that have nearly straight 
styles. 
8. Ranunculus incisus, Hook. fil.; glaberrimus, caule repente surculoso parce ramoso ramis erectis 
rarius simplici erecto, foliis longe petiolatis in segmentis 3-7 lineari-cuneatis inciso-lobatis palmatim sectis, 
pedunculis axillaribus elongatis unifloris, sepalis patentibus concavis obtusis, petalis 5-8 lineari-oblongis in 
unguem productis fovea nectarifera basi instructis, carpellis tumidis stylo brevi v. elongato recto v. curvato 
subulato terminatis. Tan. IV. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. East coast, Colenso. Banks’ Peninsula, Raoul. Canterbury 
and Otago, Lyall. 
A small species, very slender when 6—8 inches high, generally only 3-4. Sometimes erect, or, probably 
