720 465. Ranun. 85. RANUNGULAGEZE. Pl.ex.thaL 



Ranunculus fiammeus major, Raii Syn. 250, 8; Ger.ttn. 961, 1. 

 Ranunculus palustris fiammeus major, Park. 1215. 

 Ranunculus Lingua, Lin. S, P. 773. 

 Ranunculus longifollus, Lamarck Fl, Fr. 3, 189. 

 Great spear wort. 



Ditches? perennial; July. 



Stem, leaves, and flowers, larger than in R. fiammeus; 

 leaves not cut or serrulated ; bald, or slightly hairy ; hairs 

 pressed to the leaves. 



d. Flowers yellow ; leaves not in the least cut ; roots bundled, 



12. Ranunculus gramineiLS. Grassy crowfoot. 

 Leaves lanceolate or linear, not cut; stem upright, quite 



bald, fibrous at the collar; nectarif erous-'Scale twhvXax ', root 

 in bundles. 



Ranunculus gramineus Lobelii, Ger. em. 954, 9, is double. 

 Ranunculus oramineus, Lin. S. P. 773. 

 Ranunculus graminifolius, Salisli. Prod. 312. 



Fields ; perennial ; May and June. 



Root tuberous, cylindrical, radiatedly fibrous at top; 

 leaves very smooth, glaucous, rather stiff; sepales smooth, 

 spread ; flowers often double. 



e. Flowers white ; leaves lohate, multifid, or toothed j ca^ 



riopsides smooth. 



13. Ranunculus alpestris. Alp crowfoot. 

 Leaves orbicular, 3-lobed ; lobes cut, crenate, rather 



blunt; stem mostly 1 -flowered ; calyx bald; petals 5, re- 

 verse heartshape, or 3-lobed. 



RanuDcuUis montanus flore rainore, Ger. em. 964,3. 

 Ranunculus alpestris, Lin, S, P. 772. 



Alps ; perennial ; May and June. 



Leaves smooth, bald ; root-leaves orbicular, round, 3-cut 

 or parted ; stem-leaves linear, or cut into 3 linear lobes ; 

 scape 4 inches high, 1. flowered; petals entirely white. 



X. 466. BATRACHIUM. De Cand. Water-crowfoot. 

 Calyx 5-sepaled; sepales deciduous, not produced at 

 bottom; petals 5 or 10, white, base yellow, with a nectari- 

 ferous hole: stamens and ovaries many; cariopsldes ovate, 

 compressed, not armed, transversely wrinkled. — Plants 

 aquatic; roots fibrous; leaves quite bald; those out of water 

 toothed, slightly lobed; leaves in water capilhiry, many- 

 cut; peduncles 1-flowered, opposite to the leaves. 



