Wrightiane. N. O. Ranunculacez. 
TAB. CDXCVII. 
RANUNCULUS BITERNATUS. Sm. 
Caule repente, foliis longe petiolatis circumscriptione cordatis 
3-partitis partitionibus petiolulatis iterum spe tripartitis 
lobis cuneatis 3-fidis, petalis 6-8 oblongis (flavis), carpellis plu- 
rimis ovatis compressis stylo recurvato mucronatis in globum 
digestis. 
Ranunculus biternatus. Sm. in Rees, Cycl. n. 48. De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 1, p. 30. Deless. Ic. Sel. t. 24. 
Han. Straits of Magellan. Commerson; Falkland Islands, Mr. 
Wright. 
This species does not appear to have been discovered in the 
Falkland Islands till Mr. Wright detected it there. I should 
not have figured it, had I ascertained, before the engraving was 
prepared, that it was the same with the R. diternatus already so 
well represented by Delessert in his valuable Icones. I was 
misled by De Candolle’s placing this plant in his division of the 
genus “ floribus albis,’ whereas the inflorescence is decidedly 
yellow, as indeed Sir James Smith had suspected, whose des- 
cription is moreover very accurate. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Head of carpels. f, 3. Single carpel:— 
