ANEMONE. RANUNCULUS. O 



about as long" as the carp. Roots! ock horizontal. Sep. 

 glabrous on both sides. Groves and thickets, common. P. III. 

 V. Wind-flower. E. S. I. 



[A. apennina (L.) ; fl. solitary, sep. many lanceolate, involucre 

 of 3 ternate stalked deeply cut leaves, 1. similar, carp, pointed 

 not tailed. E. E. 1062. *J2. iv. 47. Fl. brio-lit blue. Root- 

 stock tuberous and roundish. Scarcely naturalized. P. IV .] E. 



[A. ranunculoi'cles (L.) ; fl. solitary or in pairs, sep. 5 elliptic, 

 involucre of 3 nearly sessile ternate deeply-cut leaves, 1. similar 

 often quinate, carp, pointed downy not tailed. E. B. 1484. 

 R. iv. 47. FL bright yellow. Sep. externally pubescent. Root- 

 stock horizontal. Not native. P. IV.] E. 





 4. ADO'NIS Linn. Pheasant's Eye. 



Jl. A. autumndlis (L.) ; cal. glabrous patent, pet. connivent, 

 carp, without teeth collected into an ovate head and tipped with 

 a straight beak. E. B. 308. R. iii. 24. Pet. scarlet, black at 

 the base, scarcely exceeding the sepals. L. triply and copiously 

 pinnatifid, segments linear. St. about 8 in. high. Corn-fields, 

 rare. A. VII. E. 



Tribe III. Ranunculea. 



5. MYOSU'KUS Linn. Mousetail. 



1. M. min'imus (L.). E. B. 435. R. iii. 1. Scapes many-, 

 single-flowered, 2 5 in. high. L. linear, fleshy. Receptacle 

 becoming very long (1 3 in.) with many oblong carp. Seed 

 attached to the upper part of the carp, and pendulous, the radicle 

 pointing upwards. In damp places in fields. A. V. VI. E. 



6. RANUN'CULUS Linn. Crowfoot. 



A. Fr.-st. arching carp, transversely wrinkled laterally attached, 

 pet. white (with a yellow claw in all our plants] , nectary naked. 

 BATHACHIUM S. F. Gray. Water Crowfoot. 1 



* Submersed leaves twice or thrice 3-furcate with filiform 

 segments spreading in the segment of a sphere, rarely 

 wanting. Receptacle hispid. (The submersed leaves 

 become stiff when old. The younger ones should be 

 examined). 



1 We have identified four hybrids in this section JR. Baudotii x 

 Drouetii, R. Baudotiixheterophyllus, R. peltatusxLenormandi, and 

 . R. peltatusxtrichophyllus. No doubt further investigations will add 

 many to the list. H.& J. G. 



