10 I. RANUNCULACE^:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 



7. RANUNCULUS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire lobed or dissected. Si 

 membranous or 0. Flowers usually panicled, white or yellow. 6 

 3-5, caducous, imbricate in bud. Petals usually 5, rarely 0, often glandular 

 near the base. Stamens many. Carpels many ; styles short ; ovule 1 a 

 ing. Fruit a head or spike of beaked or apicolate achenes. DISTKIP.. 

 All temperate and cold regions species about 160. 



SECT. I. Batracfcium. Water plants. Flowers white. Achenes tran>- 

 versely wrinkled, sometimes obscurely. 



1. R. aquatilis, L. ; var. trichophyttux ; leaves all submerged eapil- 

 laceo-multitid, stipules ',-adnate, auricles large, flowers small, .-stamens ie\v. 

 R. aquatilis, Don in Ro'yh III. 54 ; 11. f. <( T. Fl. /ml. 29. 



WEST HIMALAYA, from Kuinaon to the Indus. KA-T AM- WK>T Tir.rr. Plains 

 of the PUNJAB, a* far south as Delhi and Saharunpore. JMSTIMH. Tern: 

 S. hemispheres. 



The Indian forms have hren identified by Mr. P.aker with /;/<' and its 



Bubvarietiea Dr&uetii &nd pantothrix. Large flowered specimens from Hanle in Tibet 

 differ from tni.: injiKitilix chielly in ihc abseno- of Hoaiing leaves. A small -Tri-ncr i< ]- 

 rcstrial variety throws in the Punjabi. Floating leaves arc invariably abt-ent in the 

 Indian plant. 



SECT. II. Ceratocephalus, Moench (genus). Annual lierls. /' 

 yellow. A<-li> /><* gibbous at the sides, with a long terminal beak. 



2. R. falcatus, L. ; leaves :j-ful or pinnatifid, scapes longer than the 

 leaves 1-nowei-ed. Ceratocephalus falcatus, r<r*. ; 11. j. <( /'. /'/. //. 



C. orthtH-.i-ras, !)(}. ; 1)>I<^. /<: *gl. i. t. -2'.}. Anem- 

 I<: I'l. iv. t. OCO, f. 1. 



TI.MITKA IK HIMALAYA, t'nun Kishtwar westwards. Prx.iAH, dry gntSSJ }} 

 Peehawur, ^t< ir<irt. \ >is'i 1:11;. S. I-'.. I'.urope and W.Asia. 



(Ilabrous or a little woolly. /. tMM I all radieal, :iarr<>\\ --linear, <'ntire or 



3-fid; jn'tiole margined, tapering do\\n^ . r ihan 



the leaves. /'///, rx small. - s ' with the beak sti'ai_lit Of 



A very variable litile plant, ul' wliie.h 7 or s sj.n ie.s have been made; I !..!<.,;, - r rt .. 



duces them to 2, a hooked and straight beaked, having never seen iinm. i;i . 

 which we have seen many. 



SECT. III. Hecatonia, DC. Perennial, rarely annual. /'///</* yellow 

 (in the Indian species). Ac/n-ms smooth or granular, not nnii'irate.l m- 

 tubercled, shortly beaked. 



* Radical or all the leaves undivided (except sometimes in 7, f jil<-/i> 

 ?>. R. Lingua, L. ; tall, erect, glabrous, leaves lanceolate, flowers 

 petals 5. DC.^rodr. i. 32 ; //./ ,(' T. I'l. I ml. 30. 



WEST HIMALAYA; Kashmir Lake, Ja<-'{tn ,n<tt, &c. Dis 11:111. 'J'eiiijic, 

 hemisphere. 



ltd- /stock creeping. Stem 2-3 ft., hollow. Leaves 4-8 in., sessilp, ^-amplexicaul, 

 entire or remotely toothed, veins parallel, venules reticulate. FLowers subpunieled. 

 Achenes pitted ; beak broad, flat. 



4. R. reniformis, W<iH. Cat. 4709 ; erect, stem softly hairy, leaves 

 broadly oval or orbicular coarsely toothed, petals 12 -15. IF. & A. Prodr. ','> ; 

 WujlU III i. t. 2; Ic. t. 75; H.f. & T. Fl. 2nd. 30. 



