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cut and lobed, hairy, paler underneath. Peduncles very long, 

 straight, erect, parallel. Flowers terminal, green, solitary. Petals 

 oblong, acute, covered outside with silken down. Stamens and 

 styles very numerous. The seeds form an oblong cylindrical 

 head. Found in dry woods, road sides, &c. — June, July. — Pe- 

 rennial. 



249. TROLLIUS. 

 Trollius laxus. Salisb. American Trollius. 



Petals five, oblong, spreading ; nectaries shorter than 

 the stamens. 

 Syn. Trollius Ajiericanus. Donn. 



This plant resembles a Ranunculus, and is easily passed by for 

 one of the common species of that genus. Leaves palmate, 

 lobed, cloven almost to the petiole into five segments or leafets, 

 the middle one distinct, all of them smooth, cut, and toothed- 

 Petals yellow, round-obovate. Capsules about six, erect, crowned 

 with the persistent styles. Gathered in Hanover, N. H. — June. 

 — Perennial. 



250. RANUNCULUS. 

 Ranunculus flammula. L. Small Spearwort. 



Smooth ; stem declining ; leaves lanceolate, the 

 lower ones petioled ; peduncles terminal and axillary, 

 one flowered; calyx somewhat reflexed. 



Stem somewhat decumbent ; leaves lanceolate, acute, entire 

 or toothed, smooth. Flowers small, solitary, yellow ; half an 

 inch in diameter. Peduncles round. Calyx reflexed. — In ditches, 

 &c. rare. Introduced. — June to August. — Perennial. 

 Ranunculus filiformis. 3Ix. Filiform Crowfoot. 



Smooth and very small ; stems filiform, creeping ; 

 geniculate ; joints one flowered ; leaves linear-subu- 

 late, obtuse. Mx. 



Syn. Ranunculus reptans. j^. De Cand. 

 Ranunculus flammula. y. Hooker. 



A very delicate, creeping species. Stem round, filiform, sar- 



