FLOWERING PLANTS. 29 
In ditches and wet places. Rather rare, but pretty widely distri- 
buted. It has occurred in Cornwall, Devon, Hants, Sussex, Kent, 
Surrey, Somerset, Glamorgan, Pembroke, Cardigan, Staffordshire, 
Leicester, York, Lancashire, Dumfries, and Lanarkshire, and, 
probably, will be found in other counties. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Spring to Autumn. 
Stem branched at the base, creeping in the mud; the upper 
portion floating when covered by water. Leaves very variable 
im size, from z inch to 13 inch across, occupying from half to 
three-quarters of a circle; the central lobe rounded at the end with 
3 broad very shallow crenatures ; the lateral lobes slightly bi-lobed, 
with two or three crenatures in each of the subdivisions. Flowers 
varying a little in size, but always larger than in the preceding or 
following species. Petals oblanceolate- ‘oblong, 5- to 7-veined, white 
with a tinge of yellow at the base, spreading like the rays of a 
star. Achenes pale-yellowish olive, slightly attenuated at the tip, 
which passes insensibly into the apiculus formed by the persistent 
base of the style, which, from the convexity of the upper margin of 
the carpel, is nearly central. 
The shortly obovate rounded lobes of the leaves, and larger 
flowers, distinguish this from the preceding species, which it re- 
sembles in habit. The carpels are also much more numerous and 
less inflated at the tip. 
I have not seen the leaves of this species opposite, as in the 
next, nor with the dark marking so common in that plant. 
Lenormand’s Water Crowfoot. 
SPECIES VII-RANUNCULUS HEDERACEUS, Linn. 
Puate XXVI. 
fteich. Tc. Fl). Germ. et Helv. Vol. IIL. Ran. Tab. IT. Fig. 4573. 
Lab. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. ii. Vol. XVI. p. 404 ; and Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 8. Koch, 
Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 12. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 19. 
Boreau, Fl. du Cent. de la Fr. Vol. IL. p. 9. Brebisson, Fl. de Normandie, ed. iii. 
p. 7. Lloyd, Fl. de YOuest de la Fr. p. 5 
R. cenosus, Guss. Prod. Suppl. 187; Syn. Vol. IL p. 39. Brebisson, Fl. de Normandie, 
ete 
None of the leaves dissected into capillary segments, but all 
of one form, opposite or more rarely alternate, stalked, broadly 
reniform, sub-cordate at the base, with 5 more or less distinet]:; 
marked entire, bluntly triangular or rounded lobes. Stipules longer 
than broad, almost entirely adnate. Peduncles rather slender, not 
exceeding and usually much shorter than the leaves, from the axil 
of which they spring (or when the latter are alternate, opposite to 
