43 RANUNCULACEiE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 



segments. Petals a little longer than sepals. Heads spherical, ahout 

 0.005 m. in diameter. Carpels ovate; margin 2-grooved, disk tuberdedy 

 beak tapering, half as long as ovary — Spring — Wet places from Hums 

 to Kerak. 



25. R, lomatocarpus, F. et M. Fig. 3 



Glabrescent. Leaves ternate ; divisions obovate, 

 those of lower leaves obtusely lobed and cut, of 

 upper leaves dissected into oblong and linear,' acute 

 lobes. Petals twice as long as sepals. Head 0.01 

 m. or more in diameter. Carpels ovate ; disk tu- 

 bercled ; margin with, or without groove, tapering 

 into a slightly curbed leak, half the length of ovary — 

 Spring — Fields, Syria and Palestine ; common. 

 Leaves often much dissected into narrowly linear 

 lobes. 



Var. cornutns, Post. BeaJc as long as ovary Head of r. lomato- 



— With type— (i?. cornutus D. 0.) carpus, var. eomutus. 



26. R. muricatus, L. © Glabrous or glabrescent. Root-leaves 

 long-petioled, round or kidney-shaped, with 3 cut and toothed divisions. 

 Upper leaves cuneate at base, with 3 ollong, cut or toothed divisions. 

 Petals a little longer than sepals. Heads generally more than 0.01 m. 

 in diameter. Carpels large, ovate, with muricate disk, and strongly 

 grooved margin, tapering abruptly into a beak as long as ovary — 

 Spring — Ditches and wet places ; common throughout. 



27. R. arvensis, L. © Glabrous or slightly-hairy. Lower 

 leaves cuneate-obovate, cut or toothed, or 3-parted ; the remainder 

 ternate, dissected into linear lobes. Carpels 0.006 m. long, obovate ; 

 disk muricate ; margin at right angles to surfaces of disk, broad, fringed 

 at loth edges with stiff spines much larger than those of the disk; beak 

 usually — Spring — Fields common. 



Var. rostratu§, Post. Spines of disk shorter, sometimes 

 reduced to tubercles ; spines of margin short, often mere teeth. 

 Carpels ending in an oblique, slender, curved beak, more than half as 

 long as ovary — Lebanon. Bethel. 



Var. loii^i§pina8, Post. Spines of margin longer than ovary — 

 Mnat el Husn, Beirut. 



28. R. Pinardi, Boiss. © Dwarf, appressed-hirsute. Lower 

 leaves round-wedge-shaped, obtusely 2-3-toothed ; the rest dissected 

 into linear-oblong lobes. Carpels few, 0.01 m. long, 0.003 broad ; 

 disk minutely tubercled ; margin tumid, obtuse, tapering into a 

 lanceolate, circinnate beak twice as long as ovary — Summer — Anti- 

 lebanon, above Ilasheiya and Zebedani. 



7. CERATOCEPHAL.US, Mcench. 



Sepals 5, Petals 5, with nectar-bearing pore at base, covered 

 with a scale. Akenes caducous, with an empty cell at each side of 

 base. Beak long, sickle-shaped — Dwarf annual herbs, with palmate 

 leaves, dissected into linear lobes. 



C. falcatas, Pers. © Beak curved upward, hooked— Spring — 



Fields, Syria. 



