6 FLORA OF TASMANIA. {Ranunculacem . 
Hab. Western Mountains, and Hampshire Hills, elev. 4000 feet, Gunn.— (Fl. Dec. JaD.) 
Disteib. Mount Buller, South Australia, Dr. Midler. 
Whole plant more or less hairy or silky.— Root of thick, fleshy fibres. Leaves all radical, with stout petioles 
2-4 inches long ; lamina broadly deltoid, tripinnatifidly cut into many narrow fleshy linear segments. Scape very 
stout, erect, 1-7 inches long, usually very silky above. Flower 1} inch across. Sepals membranous, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, one-third shorter than the petals. Petals five or six, linear-oblong, round at the end, which is 
rather dilated, each with many parallel nerves, of which the three principal expand below the middle into naked 
opaque glands. — The most remarkable of the Tasmanian species, and quite unlike any other. The carpels are 
rather fleshy, the seed covered with a loose hyaline reticulated testa, and the albumen is formed of large loose inco- 
herent grains. 
us (Banks et Sol. "DC. Syst. i. 289) ; patentim pilosus v. villosus, subscapi- 
gerus, foliis radicalibus plurimis longe petiolatis triseetis v. pinnatisectis (junioribus 3-lobis), segmentis 
sessilibus petiolatisve late obovatis obovato-cuneatisve grosse dentatis 3-lobisve, scapis (caulibusve) szepius 
divisis suberectis patentim pilosis, pedunculis sulcatis, sepalis concavis plus minusve villosis, petalis late 
obovato-spathulatis, carpellis compressis, stylo breviuscule uncinato. — DC. Prodr. i. 39 ; FL Nov. Zel. i. 9. 
R. pimpinellifolius, Hook. Bot. Journ. i. 243, ii. 401, Ic. Plant, t. 260. {Gunn, 90.) 
Var. /3. vestitus; depressus, foliis patentim villosis hirsutisve e collo radiantibus. {Gunn, 635.) 
Hab. Moist places: Formosa; Blackman's River, near Ross; Marlborough, etc., elev. 2-4000 feet. 
Var. j3. In alpine marshes. Gunn. — (Fl. Oct. Nov.) 
Distrib. New Zealand. 
Root of thick fleshy fibres. Leaves many, chiefly radical, erect in favourable situations, spreading in alpine ones, 
and, as well as the stems and petioles, covered more or less with shaggy spreading hairs ; petioles 1-4 inches long ; 
lamina broadly ovate or oblong, pinnately three-lobed, or pinnatisect with two to four pairs of pinnides, pinnules 
petiolulate, broadly obovate-cuneate, trifid or coarsely toothed. Peduncles one-flowered scapes, rarely rising from a 
branched stem, very villous or silky above. Flowers small, primrose-yellow, ^-\ inch across. Sepals oblong, blunt, 
hairy, with membranous margins. Petals broadly obovate-oblong, with a small thickened gland close to the very 
base. Receptacle of the carpels pilose. Carpels broad, obliquely orbicular, compressed, with a short hooked style. 
—I have no hesitation in referring this to the New Zealand It. MrtuB, which is a very common and variable plant. 
The roots, when growing in a drier soil, in New Zealand, have more slender branched fibres, and the leaves are 
sometimes biternately cut. 
4. Ranunculus lappaceus (Sm. in Rees' Cycl.) ; appresse sericeo-pilosus v. patentim pilosus, caule 
(plerumque) ramoso, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis trilobis pinnatifidis pinnatisectis v. bipinnatisectis 
lobis pinnisve latis angusti 
amplis aureis, sepalis pilosis patenti 
libera basilari, receptaculo et achen 
inciso-lobatis, caulinis varie sectis, pedunculis dense sericeis, floribus 
bus reflexisve, petalis late obovatis obtusis retusisve, squama nectarifera 
ut in R. kirto, sed stylis longioribus.— DC. Syst. i. 287, Prodr. i. 39 ; 
Hook. Bot. Journ. i. 243. R. colonorum, Endl. Plant. Hugel. {Gunn, 90 et 633.) 
Tar. a ; patentim villosus, foliis pinnatisectis lobis angustis. — Ad R.plebeiutn, Br., approximat. 
Var. /3. latilobus; caule petiolisque patentim pilosis, foliis pedunculisque appresse pilosis, foliis tri- 
seetis trilobisque, lobis latis. 
Var. 7. pascuinm; totus appresse sericeo-pilosus, foliis pinnatisectis, lobis pinnatifidis incisisque 
angustis. {Gunn, 634.) 
Var. 8. uniflorus; minor, appresse sericeo-pilosus, foliis trilobis ternati- v. pinnatisectis, lobis parvis 
angustis, scapia solitariis plurimisve unifloris.— R. collinus, Br. hi DC. Si/st. i. 271 ? {Gunn, 634.) 
Hab. Throughout the Colony, in various situations, abundant, representing the English Buttercup. — 
