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RANUNCULUS. Gen. pi 699. 

 Cai, 5-phyllus. Fetala 5 intra ungues poro melli- 



fero. Sem. nuda. 

 Obs. Charader effentialis Confijiit in Ne^ario\ re- 

 liqu<£partes fruSiificationis in conji antes-, hincNe5fario 

 incognito^ tanta confufio generis. 

 Neftarium hoc autem in aliis porus nudus^ in aliis 

 margine cylindraceo cin^uSj in aliis fq^uamula emar- 

 ginata claufus. 



* Foliis Jimplicibus. 



RANUNCULUS foliis lanceolatis, canle eredlo. 

 Sp. pi. jj^. {Ger. ejn. 961. /. i. Moris, hiji. f. 4. 

 i' ^9'f' 33- Pef- ^'^rb. /. ^(^.f. 5) 



Great Spearwort. Angiis. 



By the fides of lakes and in deep muddy ditches, 

 but not common. At the end of Didijion-Loch^ 

 near Edinburgh, Dr. Parfons. %. VII. 



The ftalk is two or three feet high, hollow, ere<5t, 

 and branched towards the top : the leaves are 

 (lightly denticulated on the edges, hairy and 

 rough to the touch, feffile, and Iheathing the 

 ftalk at their bafe : the Calyx is a little hairy : 

 the flower is of a fhlning yellow color, an inch 

 or more in diameter : the nedariferous pore at" 

 the bafe of the petal has a prominent fcale over 

 it» The whole plant is acrid and cauftic. 



RANUNCULUS. 



