Plants oj the Punjab. 



349 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Adonis 

 chrysocyathus, 



Eanunculace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 15. ' 

 Himalaya, in 

 Chamba and 

 Kashmir. 



small, perennial, rootstocks horizontal, scaly, stems 

 several, leafy ; radical leaves 3-6 in., much lobed and divid- 

 ed, segments narrowly linear ; flowers 2 in. diam., yellow, 

 sepals 7-8, ovate with a broad tip, many-nerved, petals 

 16-24, twice the sepals in length, narrowly ovate with a 

 broad tip, blunt, not spreading at first, stamens many ; 

 fruit of many carpels in a dense head, f in. diam,, carpels 

 smooth, flattened in front, convex and keeled behind, not 

 angular, swollen, style tapering, bent back. 



Adonis 

 scrobiculata, 



RANUNCULACEiE. 



F. B. I. i. 15. 



Kishtwar (Stewart). 



very like Adonis aestivalis, but the achenes are more 

 sharply angled with a flattened collar at the base. 



Ranunculus, 

 hirtellus, 



Ranunculace^. 

 F.B.Li. IS. 



Himalava, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Mahasii, Narkanda 

 (CoUett), 



small to mechum size, perennial, slightly hairy, branch- 

 ed, many-flowered ; radical leaves 1^-2 in. diam., deeply 

 3-lobed, heart-shaped, long-stalked, segments coarsely 

 toothed, often lobed, stem leaves digitately 3-5-fid, seg- 

 ments narrow, entire or toothed nfar the tip ; f.owers |- in. 

 diam., yellow, in branching racemes, sepals 5, green, soon 

 falling off, petals 5, with a glandular spot at the base, 

 stamens many, fruit oblong, of many carpels, carpels 

 sometimes flattened, crowned by the style, which is some- 

 times hooked. Closely alhed to Goldilocks, Ranunculus 

 auricomus of Britain. 



Ranunculus 

 sceleratus. 

 Celery-leaved 

 Buttercup 

 or Crow-foot, 



RAKUNCULACEiE. 



F. B. I. i.l9. 



The Plains to 



5,000 ft. 



River bed below 



Paniah, Simla, 



Sutlej Valley 



(Collett). 



Peshawar. 



small to large, annual, smooth, yello'^ish-green, stem 

 stout, hollow, leaves radical, -|-lf in. cham., stalked, deeply 

 divided into 3 wedge-shaped segments, segments lobed,' 

 bluntly toothed near the top, stem leaves sessile, flowers |-^ 

 in diam., pale j^ellow, many, sepals equal in length to the 

 petals, reflexed, achenes many, small, blunt, or pointed, 

 smooth, in oblong to cylindrical heads ; for other characters 

 see the last species. This plant is acrid and is sometimes 

 used to raise blisters. It is found on wet ground. 



