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RANUNCULUS PARNASSIFOLIUS. 
j P Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNTA. 
This I SERA FRA tive of the Alps 
of Switzerland, Dauphiny, and Carinthia, 
as also the Pyrenees. It has been long 
known in this country, though very scarce. 
We received a plant of it many years ago, 
from our late valued friend, Mr. Donn, of 
Cambridge. This, by cultivation, 
It succeeds very well in a pot in sandy 
loam, without any protection, allowing it å 
sufficiency of water in the summer : it flow- 
ers in June, and sometimes ripens seeds ; 
it may also be now and then successfully 
divided in the spring. 
genus Ranunculus has been ama- 
ingly extended pe late. ¿Willdenow, i in his 
has sixty-one: Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees's 
Cyclopædia, has increased them to eighty- 
five; but De Candolle has almost dou- 
bled this number, describing 134, besides 
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