EANUNCULUS. CALTHA. 13 



furrowed, calyx hairy reflexed, carp, round margined smooth, 

 beak short, receptacle hairy. E. B. 515. R. iii. 20. St. about 

 1 foot high. Upper 1. cut into narrow segments. Meadows 

 and pastures. P. V. Bulbous Crowfoot. E. S. I. 



J|| Nectary with a scale, carp, rugose or tubercular. 



[R. flabelldtus (Desf.) ; root of short ovoid knols and fibres, 

 stoles very slender with minute scales and ending in a young 



lant, rt.-l. with 3 segments each 3 7-parted or 3-fid, st.-l. 

 2 with linear segments, ped. terete, cal. hairy spreading, 

 carp, many roundish, beak acute, receptacle oblong glabrous. 

 R. chcerophyllus (auct.) ed. viii. J. of B. x. t. 125. St. 6 

 12 in. high, and, as well as the leaves, hairy. Dry places, 

 St. Aubin's, Jersey. P. V.] 



27. R. sardous (Crantz) ; root fibrous, radical 1. with 3 stalked 

 tritid and cut leaflets, peduncles furrowed, calyx reflexed, carp, 

 round margined with a series of tubercles near the margin, beak 

 short curved, receptacle hairy. R. hirsutus (Curt.) ed. viii. 

 E. B. 1504. R, iii. 23. R. Philonotis (Ehrh.) Koch. St. 4 

 18 in. high ; the smaller specimens are R. parvulus L. Upper 

 1. in narrow acute segments. Fl. pale yellow. Waste land and 

 corn-fields, rare. A. VI. X. E. S. 



28. R. parviflorus (L.) ; root fibrous, stems spreading, 1. 

 roundish-cordate 3 5-lobed cut, upper 1. oblong undivided or 

 3-lobed, calyx at first erect afterwards reflexed, carp, orbicular 

 muricate. E. B. liO. R. iii. 22. Peduncles opposite the 

 leaves. Pet. narrow. Corn-fields and dry banks, rare. A. T. 

 VI. E. I. 



t29. R. arven'sis (L.) ; root fibrous, radical 1. 3-cleft dentate, 

 stem-1. once or twice ternate with linear-lanceolate segments, 

 c dyx erect-patent, carp, margined beaked and spinous. E. B. 

 135. R. iii. 21. St. 618 in. high. Fl. pale yellow. 

 Corn-fields. A. VI. Corn Crowfoot. " E. S. I. 



Tribe IV. Hdleborea. 

 7. CAL'THA Linn. Marsh Marigold. 



1. C, palustris (L.) ; st. ascending, I. cordate rounded crenate. 

 E. B. 506. R. iv. 101. - About a foot high. Fl. large. Sep. 

 bright yellow. a. vulgaris ; sep. roundish-ovate contiguous, 

 carp, spreading their beak eery short. /3. C. cornuta (Schottj ; 



