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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Ranunculus Isetus, 

 Buttercup, 



Eanunculace^.. 

 F.B.Li. 19., 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley. 



medium size, perennial, covered with flat-lying hairs, 

 rootstock woody, leaves radical 2-4 in. diam., long- 

 stalked, deeply 3-lobed, segments deeply cut, sharply 

 toothed, stem leaves smaller, shortly stalked, flowers 1 in. 

 diam., bright yellow, long-stalked, sepals hairy, achenes 

 in round heads, smooth, flattened, not dotted, margins 

 thickened ; for other characters see the last species. This 

 plant is closely allied to Eanunculus acris of Britain. 



Ranunculus 

 muricatus. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Ranunculus 



arvensis, 



Corn Buttercup, 



Clianibal. 



Ranunculace^. 



F. B. L i. 20. 



Himalaya, 



4-7,000 ft. 



Simla, in cornfields 



(Collett). 



Kashmir, 



Pathankot, 



Baluchistan 



(Stocks). 



small to medium size, annual, pale green, slightly 

 hairy only on the upper parts, leaves radical, 1-3 in. diam., 

 long-stalked, soon withering, wedge-shaped or ovate with a 

 broad tip, 2-3-toothed or lobed, stem leaves shortly stalked, 

 deeply divided into 2 or 3 narrow lobes, lobes entire or 

 the tip lobed or toothed, flowers | in. diam., pale yellow, 

 sepals pressed against, and half the length of the petals, 

 achenes 5-10, in round heads, flattened, usually covered 

 with hooked spines, styles straight or hooked ; for other 

 characters see the last species. . 



Delphinium 

 uncinatum, 



Eanunculaceje. 

 F. B. I. i. 24. 



Himalaya, west 

 of the Jhelum, 

 2-7,000 ft. 

 Salt Range. 



medium size, annual, or perennial, almost smooth, few- 

 leaved, branched, or not ; leaves radical 2 in., deeply divided 

 into 5 parts, segments deeply divided, stem leaves smaller ; 

 flowers I in. long, white or bluish-purple in long many- 

 flowered densely glandular-hairy or smooth racemes, 

 sepals 5, petal-like, free, the upper one prolonged behind 

 in a hooked blunt swollen spur, others flat, petals 4, 2 

 upper each prolonged as a spur within the spurred sepals, 

 blade small, 2 lateral petals flat, stalked, blades smaller 

 than the sepals, stamens many, flattened at the base, 

 tapering upwards ; follicles 8, many -seeded, tipped with the 

 persistent styles, seeds \winkled or folded. Allied to the 

 Larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis of Britain. 



