28 RANUNCULACE.K 



HAB. Kagi : Arizan. 



The present plant appears very near to It. Cymbafaria PAKSII and 

 also to R. flaccidHS ; but differs from the former in the shape of the flowers 

 and especially in having very few carpels, and from the latt<>r in the ha in- 

 form of the plant. 



3. Ranunculus ternatus Tnum Fl. Jap. p. 241 ; FORBES et HEMSL. 

 Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 16 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 14 ; DIELS Fl. Centr. Chin, in 

 Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 834 ; MAT>SUM. et HAYATA Euum. PI. Formos. p. 9. 



Ranunculus extorris HANCE, in " Ann. So. Nat. 5 me serie V. p. 204." 



Ranunculus Zuccarinii MIQ. in Ann. Mns. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. III. p. 5 ; 

 MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 193; FRANCH. et SAV. Eiinin. PI. Jap. I. p. 8, ct II. 

 p. 267 ; S. MOORE in Jonrn. Bot. (1878) p. 129. 



HAB. Tamsni. 



DISTRIB. Japan, central China, Shanghai, Ningpo. 



4. Ranunculus acris LINN. Sp. PI ed-2, p. 779 ; WILLD. Sp. PI. II. p. 

 1326; English Botany t. 652; LEDEB. "Fl. Alt, II. p. 331," et Fl. Jto.^s. 

 I. p. 40; DC. Prodr. I. p. 39; MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 193; FRANCII. et 

 8A^. Euum. PI. Jap. II. p. 266 ; FIUNCHET PI. David, p. 19 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 13 ; DIELS Fl. Centr. Chin, in ENGL. Bot. 

 Jahrb. XXIX. p. 334 ; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. Lutch. in Jonrn. Sci. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, XII. p. 274 ; PALIBIN Conspect, Fl. Korea3 p. 16 ; 

 MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 7. 



Ranunculus japonicus THUNB. in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. (1794) p. 337. 



Ranunculus prop'mquus C. A. MEY in LEDEB. " Fl. Alt, II. p. 332," et 

 Fl. Boss. I. p. 40 ; MAXIM. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 20. 



Ranunculus prop'mquus var. It'u-sulus A, (TRAY Bot. Jap. in Mem. Am. 

 Acad. VI. (1859) p. 378. 



HAB. Keluug. 



DISTRIB. Europe, Siberia, China, Japan and North Africa, 



5. Ranunculus japonicus LANGSD. ex. FISCH. in DC. Prodr. I. p. 38 ; 

 FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 14 ; MATSUM. ot HAYATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 8. 



