New Alpine Plants. 97 
For further details on the position which the plants from 
our snowy mountains occupy in phyto-geography, showing how 
far they are endemic, how far connecting those of distant 
countries, and how far identical with those of other parts of 
the globe, and for information on their uses and peculiarities, 
I beg to refer to my published official reports. It remains 
here only to acknowledge, that without the use of the 
admirable Flora Antarctica of Dr. Jos. Hooker, and the yet 
unfinished Flora of New Zealand, from the pen of the same 
celebrated author, I should have been unable to analyze these 
plants regarding their distinctive characters with that 
precision which was earnestly desired, but perhaps not 
attained. ' 
RANUNCULACAE. 
1. Ranunculus anemoneus. 
(Sect. Hecatonia.) 
Glabrous or hirsute; root fasciculate; stem thick, simple, 
erect, one-three flowered, below leafless, at the base vaginate ; 
leaves veined, the radicil ones on long and strong petioles, 
orbicular, to the base divided into three or five lobes; these 
deeply three or five-cleft, covering each other, their lobules 
variously cut, acute; bracteal-leaves large, cordate-orbicular, 
dissected, sessile, clasping ; peduncle naked or with a smaller 
bracteolar-leaf; sepals five-seven, ovate, appressed, slightly 
villose; petals large, white, generally numerous, twice or 
three times as long as the calyx, narrow oblong-cuneate, 
entire; nectar-pit solitary, margined; carpels turgid, even, 
glabrous, margined ; their style at the extremity hooked. 
On springs at the summit of the Munyang Mountains. 
This charming and interesting species forms, next Grevillea 
Victoria, the greatest ornament to the Snowy Mountains of 
Continental Australia. It differs from similar showy ones in 
New Zealand already, in its white petals, and approaches 
rather to the European alpine type of the genus represented 
by R. aconitifolius, glacialis, &c. 
2. Ranunculus Millani. 
(Sect. Hecatonia.) 
Dwarf, stemless; root fasciculate-fibrous; scape simple, 
one-flowered, solitary, spreading-downy, of the length of or 
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