PLex.thal 85. RANUNCULACE^. 465. Ranun. 717 



Walls and waysides: annual ; June to August. 



Stein IS in. high, branchy, many-flowered, upright or 

 trailing; hairs spreading; sometimes bald; leaves 3-parted, 

 hirsute, pale. 



0. intermedius. Leaves nearly bald. 



Ranunculus inJermedius, Poiret Diet. 6, 116. 

 Ranunculus pumilus, Thuill. Par. 1,277, not of Poiret. 



Damp shady places. 



y. parvulus. Stem dwarf, mostly 1-flowered. 



Ranunculus parvulus, JLiVi. Mant. 79. 



Ranunculus parviflorus, Gouan Fl, Monsp.%10, not of Linn. 



Dry stony places. 



b, Leiosperma. Flowers yellow ; leaves loled or many^cat ; 

 root Jilrous ; cariopsides smooth. 



4. Rammculus hulhosiis. Bullous crowfoot. 

 Root-leaves petioled, 3-cut, slightly pinnately cut ; lobes 



S-cut, deeply toothed, the middle lobe slightly petioled ; 

 stem upright, bulbous at the neck ; calyx turned back. 



Ranunculus bulbosus, Raii Sjjn. 247, 2; Ger. em. 953, 6; Park. 329' 

 Lin.S.P.nS. 



Ranuncliis laetus, Salisbury Prod. 373. 



Ranunculus flabellatus, Bivona Sicul. 68. 



Butter cups. Gold cups. King cups. King kop. Gold knops. 



Fields and meadows ; perennial ; May. 

 Root bulbous, solid, proliferous above; stem I foot high; 

 leaves more or less hirsute, segments 3-cut or lobed. 



^. plemis. Ploiver double. 



Ranunculus maximus .^nglicus, Ger. em. 957, 1. 



St. Anthony's turntp. Rape crowfoot. Yellow bachelor's buttons. 



5. Ranunculus repens. - Creeping crowfoot. 

 Leaves pinnately 3-cut; segments wedgeshape, 3-lobed, 



deeply toothed; stem with creeping prostrate runners from 

 the crown, the flower-bearing stem nearly upright ; calyx 

 close; cariopsides with a straight beak. 



'Ranunculus pralensis repens, JJa« S^/n. 247, 1 ; Park. 329. 

 Ranunculus piatensis, etiamque hortensis, Ger, em. 931, 1. 

 Ranunculs repens, Lin. S. P. 779, 

 Ranunculus prostratus, Porr. Diet. 6, 113. 

 Ranunculus infestus, Salisbury Prod, 313. 

 Common crowfoot. Butter-flower. 



Damp fields ; perennial ; June to August. 

 Stems prostrate, middle stems sometimes upright or 

 ascending; leaves with the middle segment always petioled, 



