70 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
RANUNCULUS ALPESTRIS. Linn. 
E. B. 2390. 
Said by the late Mr. George Don to occur * by little rills and 
among rocks on the mountains of Clova,” Forfarshire. Though 
these mountains have been carefully examined, this conspicuous 
plant has been seen by no other collector; and no doubt Mr. Don 
made some mistake in thinking he found it there-—(See Watson’s 
*‘ Cybele Britannica,” Vol. I. p. 82.) 
RANUNCULUS GRAMINEUS. Lin. 
E. B. 2306. 
* Brought from North Wales by Mr. Pritchard ;” according 
to Withering, no doubt through mistaking R. Flammula for this 
species. 
ORDER II—BERBERIDACEA. 
Herbs or shrubs with radical or alternate simple or compound 
leaves, generally without stipules. Flowers usually perfect, regular. 
Sepals and petals in 2 or more whorls, with 2 or 3 in each whorl, 
very caducous. Stamens definite, 4 to 6 (rarely more), in 2 rows, 
opposite the petals, hypogynous, generally free. Anthers erect, 
with the cells extrorsely adnate or lateral, opening by valves 
detaching themselves from the base upwards, or more rarely by 
longitudinal clefts. Ovary free, consisting of a single 1-celled 
carpel (rarely of several distinct carpels). Stigma sessile or sub- 
sessile, dilated, peltate or conical. Ovules 2 or more, anatropous, 
with the raphe ventral. Fruit an indehiscent berry, with 1 or 
many seeds, or (more rarely) resembling a capsule, dehiscent or 
indehiscent. Embryo straight or gently curved, with the radicle 
pointing towards the hilum. Albumen copious, between fleshy 
and horny. 
Most authors confine the Berberidaceze to the species in which 
the anthers open by valves; but Bentham and Hooker, in their 
