46 POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Ranunculus. 



the sides. Calyx often slightly hairy. The whole plant is highly 

 acrid, blistering the skin. Dr. Withering recommends the dis- 

 tilled water as an instantaneous emetic, in cases of poison. He 

 does not mention the dose. 



2. R. Lingua. Great Spear-wort Crowfoot. 



Leaves lanceolate, pointed, nearly sessile, somewhat ser- 

 rated. Stem erect, many-flowered. Root fibrous. Seeds 

 smooth. 



R. Lingua. Linn.Sp Pl.773. Willd. v. 2. 1308. Fl.Br. 588. Engl. 

 Bot. V.2. t. 100. Hook. Scot. 173. Lond. t.l7\*. DeCand.Syst. 

 V. 1.246. Fl.Dan.t.75!J. 



R. n. 1181. HalLHi'it.v.2.78. 



R. flammeus major. Rail Syn. 250. Ger. Em. 961./. 



R. longo folio maximus. Lingua Plinii. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 849./. 



R. longifolius, Lingua Plinii dictus, foliis serratis. Ambros. Phyt. 

 459./. 



In marshes, reedy pools and ditches, but not common. 



In the isle of Ely, Norfolk, and several parts of the north of Eng- 

 land; also in Duddingston loch, near Edinburgh. 



Perennial. July. 



Twice the size of R. Flammula, and more silky, with close-pressed 

 hairs, in every part of the herbage. The leaves are more gene- 

 rally, but not so evidently, serrated. Cat. haiiy. Pet. bright yel- 

 low. Nect. covered by a small scale. Seeds minutely dotted, but 

 not rough. 



3. R. gramineus. Grassy Crowfoot. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, many-ribbed, entire. Stem erect, 

 very smooth, with few flowei's. Root tuberous. 



R. gramineus. Linn. Sp. PL 773. Willd.v. 2. 1309. Jnth. 505. 



Fl. Br. 588. Engl. Bot. t;.33. t. 2306. Curt. Mag. t. 164. De- 



Cand. Syst. v. 1 . 245. Bull. Fr. t. 1 23. 

 R. pumilus,gramineis foliis. Lob.Ic.67\.f. Bauh. Hist. v. 3.850. f. 



In dry alpine pastures in Wales. 



Brought from North Wales by Mr. Pritchard. Withering. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root tuberous, with several thick fleshy fibres, and crowned with 

 the thready remains of old leaves. Stem about a foot high, round, 

 smooth, erect, bearing from 1 to 3 or 4 bright-yellow, rather 

 large, flowers, and a few small sessile leaves. Most of the leaves 

 are radical, on short sheathing stalks, grassy, linear, acute, 

 glaucous, numerously ribbed. Cal. quite smooth, spreading, not 

 deflexed. Nect. a tubular scale. Botanists have confounded 

 with this several synonyms belonging to R. pyrenceus of Lmnxns ; 

 avid those of Bauhin and Dalechamp in Fl. Brit, must be ex- 

 punged. The error is corrected in Rees's Cycl. at n. 7 and 8. 



