RANUNCULACE^E 5 



The Pheasant-' s-eyes are not alpine plants. A. autum- 

 nalis, L., with purple-red petals (often with a black spot) ; 

 A. (zstivalis, L., with light red (rarely yellow) petals 

 and glabrous sepals; A. flammed, Jacq., with light red 

 petals and hairy sepals ; A. vernalis, L., with pale 

 yellow petals and pubescent sepals; and A. pyrenaica, 

 DC, with yellow petals and glabrous sepals, occur as 

 weeds in cultivated land in the Pyrenees and extreme 

 south of Switzerland. 



6. MYOSURUS, L. 



Petals small, tubular; sepals 5, spurred; fruit a long 

 spike of densely packed achenes. Not alpine. 



M. minimus, L., Mouse-tail, the British and only 

 European species, an inconspicuous plant in cornfields 

 and sandy places. 



Tribe RANUNCULE^E. Sepals imbricate; fruit com- 

 posed of achenes, each with one erect seed. Genus 7. 



7. RANUNCULUS, L. 



Petals usually 5, white or yellow. 



A. Flowers yellow ; petals 8-12: R. Ficaria, L. ; our 

 common Pilewort or Lesser Celandine; leaves nearly 

 round, cordate ; everywhere. 



All our common meadow or cornfield species of Butter- 

 cup or Crowfoot grow also in Switzerland, viz. : R. acris, 

 L. ; repens, L. ; bulbosus, L. ; hirsutus, Curt. ; arvensis, L. ; 

 and auricomus, L.; also the marsh species, R. sceleratus, 

 L. ; the very handsome Great Spearwort, R. Lingua, L. ; 

 and the Lesser Spearwort, R. Flammula, L., both with 



