POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Ranunculus. 49 



undivided. Fl. small, pale yellow, numerous, on solitary stalks, 

 either terminal, axillary, or opposite to the leaves. Cal. hairy, 

 reflexed. Pet. orbicular. Nect. somewhat tubular. Fruit cylin- 

 drical, obtuse, various in length, composed of numerous small 

 seeds. The bruised herb is said to raise a blister, leaving a sore 

 which is not easily healed, and by which strolling beggars some^ 

 times excite compassion. 



7. R. alpestris. Alpine White Crowfoot. 



Leaves very smooth ; radical ones somewhat heart-shaped, 

 obtuse, in three deep lobeil segments ; those of the stem 

 lanceolate, entire. Flower mostly solitary. Calyx 

 smooth. 



R. alpestris. Linn. Sp. PI. 778. IVilld.v. 2. 1322. Engl. Bot. v. 34. 



<. 2390. Comp.ed.4.97. Tr. of Linn. .Soc. v. 10.343. Ait. Hort. 



Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. 356. Hook. Scot. 1 73. DeCand. Si/st. v. 1. 239. 



Jacq. Austr. t WO. 

 R. n. 1167. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 71. 

 R. montani prima species. Clus. Pann. 364, 365./,/, Hist. v. I. 



234.// 

 R. montanus, flore minore, et flore majore. Ger. Em. 964.// 

 R. minimus alpinus albus. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 845 ; 2 lower/. 

 R. alpinus humilis albus, folio subrotundo. Segu.Veron.v. 1. 489. 



t.\2.f.\. 



By the sides of alpine rills in Scotland, rare. 



In moist places, about two or three rocks, on the Clova mountains 

 of Angusshire, rarely flowering. Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. Mat/. 



Root with many long fibres. Herb very smooth in every part. Stem 

 from 2 to 5 inches high, erect, almost invariably simple and 

 single-flowered, naked, except one or two linear, bluntish, up- 

 right, entire leaves towards the middle. Radical leaves several, 

 on channelled stalks, roundish-heart-shaped, or kidney-shaped, 

 more or less deeply divided into 3 principal unequal lobes, 

 which are again lobed and cut, elegantly veiny. Fl. erect, of a 

 brilliant white. Cal. reflexed, smooth, pale, bordered with white. 



Haller says this is one of the most acrid of its tribe, blistering the 

 skin ; and yet alpine hunters chew it by way of refreshment, as 

 removing fatigue, and preventing giddiness. 



8. R. bulbosus. Bulbous Crowfoot. Butter-cups. 



Calyx reflexed. Flower-stalks furrowed. Stem upright, 

 many-flowered. Leaves compound. Root bulbous. 

 Seeds smooth. 



R. bulbosus. Linn. Sp. PI. 778. Willd. v. 2. 1324. Fl. Br. 591 . 

 Engl. Bot.v.8. ^515. Curt. Lond.fasc.l. t.38. Hook. Scot. 175. 



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