Davis: RANUNCULI OF NORTH AMERICA. 501 
the base; carpels numerous, blunt, not wrinkled nor ribbed, 
cotyledon only 1: akenes borne in a head. A genus of only 
about three species natives of Europe and Asia. The follow- 
ing one is naturalized here: 
F. ranunculoides Morencn, Meth. 215. 1794. 
Ranunculus Ficaria Linn. Sp. Pl. 550. 1753. 
Ff. verna Huns. Fl. Angl. 1 ed, 214. 1762. 
fF. polypetala Giiip. F1. Lituan. 2: 259. 1781. 
F.. Ficaria Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 565. 1880-83. (Not bi- 
nomial.) 
F. communis Dum.-Cours. Bot. Cult. 2 ed .4: 445. 1811. 
F. calthefolia Reicus. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 718. 1830-32. 
F.. grandifiora Ropert, Cat. Toulon, 57: 112. 1838. 
F.. Roberti F. Scuuutz, Arch. Fl. 346. 1848. 
i. gmbioud Bor. Bl. Cent. Fr. 3 ed. 2: 20. 1857. 
F.. nudicaulis Kern. in Oestr. Bot. Zeitschr. 13: 188. 
1863. 
F. intermedia Scuur. Enum. Pl. Transs. 14. 1866. 
F’. transsilvanica Scuur. |. c. 14. 
F. aperata Scuur. in Verh. Naturf. Ver. Bruenn. 15: 231. 
1877. 
F. Holubyi Scuur. 1. c. 32. 
fF. rotundifolia Scuur. 1. c. 32. 
Stem scape-like, or 1-2-leaved, about 5 inches high: leaves 
ovate cordate, obtuse, crenate, I to 2 inches long; petioles 
broad: flowers yellow; petals 8 or 9; sepals 3: head of fruit 
globose: akenes beakless, truncate. Run wild on Long is- 
land; Staten island; Hingham, Mass.; Richmond Co., N. 
Y., and near Philadelphia. Regne Vegetale g: 6. 
CYRTORHYNCHA Nutt. ex Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1: 26. 1838. 
(From the Greek, meaning curved-beak.) 
Slender, erect, perennial herbs, with fibrous roots: leaves 
lobed: flowers small, yellow; sepals 5, spreading deciduous ; 
petals 5, narrowly spatulate or oblong, pit at base, small; 
stamens many: akenes terete, longitudinally ribbed; style in- 
curved. A monotypic genus. Section CyRTORHYNCHA Gray, 
under Ranunculus. 
