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are feffile, digitated, and entire on the edges : 

 the Calyx (lands open, and is reflexed bsfore it 

 decays : the petals, in the perfect ilate of the 

 plant, are five in number, of a fhining yellow- 

 color, but they a^-e often not above two or three, 

 and fometimcs none, in tne early flowering fpe- 

 cimens. This kind has no biting or cauilic quality. 



R. foliis infcrioribus palmatis, fummls digitatis, 

 frudibus oblongis. Sp, fl. 776. {Ger.em, 962./. 

 4. Blakwell herb. t. 259. Pet. herb. t. 38./. ii) 



Celery-leav'd Crowfoot. Anglis. 



On the fides of ditches and ponds near towns and 

 villages not unfrequent. Dr. Parfors. O. VI. 



The ftalk is thick and pithy, a cubit high, and 

 branched : the leaves are all fmooch, the radical 

 ones fapported by foctftalks, and divided into 

 three lobes, the lateral ones of v\^hich are trifid . 

 the ftalk-leaves are palmatedj being deeply di- 

 vided into narrow fegments ; the iippermoil aie 

 elliptical. 



The flowers are yellow, Hiining and fmall, in pro- 

 portion to the fize of the plant, and the other 

 fpccies of this genus : the calyx is yellowifh, 

 fmooth and refiexcd : the neclariferous pore at 

 tjie bafe of the petal is furrounded with a pro- 

 minent margin : the Stamina are in number from 

 12 to 20 : the receptacle of an oval-conic form. 



The whole plant has a moll acrimonious quality ; 



if bruiied and laid upon any part of the bodv, 



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