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FLOWERING PLANTS. 33 
Locally abundant in * St. Peter’s Marsh,” Jersey. This is half- 
way between St. Helier’s and St. Aubin’s, and is best known in the 
island by the less dignified appellation of “* Goose Green.” 
Channel Islands. Annual. Summer. 
Root of numerous whitish fibres. Stem slender, mach branched 
in large examples, with a general tendency to become irregularly 
dichotomous. Lowest leaves very broadly cordate- or rhomboid- 
ovate; those of the stem becoming narrower and more shortly 
stalked in proportion as they are placed higher up on the stem. 
Peduncles furrowed, opposite the leaves in unbranched specimens. 
Flowers scarcely a quarter of an inch across. Sepals spreading, 
glabrous. Petals obovate, pale yellow, a little longer than the head 
of pistils. Achenes reddish brown, lenticular, compressed ; their 
upper edge slightly convex, the lower nearly semicircular, faintly 
tuberculate on the sides. Plant yellowish green, glabrous, or with 
distant adpressed hairs towards the upper part. 
This plant presents little resemblance to any of our species, 
except the following, from which, however, the tuberculated carpels 
readily distinguish it. When growing the habit of the plant is 
much more that of R. sceleratus than of R. Flammula. 
Adder’s-tongue-leaved Spearwort. 
SPECIES X—RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA. Sm. 
Puates XXIX. XXX. 
Rootstock not stoloniferous. Stem decumbent and usually 
rooting at the base ; the upper portion erect or procumbent, slightly 
branched, hollow, furrowed. Leaves varying from ovate to linear, 
somewhat acute, faintly and remotely denticulate or entire; the 
earliest and those of the barren shoots broadest and with the 
longest stalks, the upper ones sessile. Peduncles furrowed. Flowers 
rather small. Nectary with a rudimentary scale. Head of fruit 
globular, loosely packed. Achenes rather small, not compressed, 
appearing smooth to the naked eye, very obscurely margined, and 
not at all winged; apiculus very small. 
Sue-Srecies L—Ranunculus eu-Flammula. 
Puate X XIX, 
R. Flammula, Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Ran. Tab. X. Fig. 4945. 
R. Flammula, Linn. Species Plant. p. 772. Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 142. Koch, 
Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. p. 434. Boreau, Fl. du Cent. de la Fr. ed, iii. Vol. II. 
p- 14. Godet, Fl. du Jura, p. 12. 
R. Flammula, var. a, Auct. plurimum. 
