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Original Articles. 
RANUNCULUS CHJEROPHYLLOS, L., AUCT. IN JERSEY. 
By Henry Trimen, M.B., F.L.S. 
(Prate CXXV.) 
I have been asked by Dr. Bull, who had the good fortune to detect the 
subject of this article in Jersey (as noticed at p. 175 of this volume), to 
write a description of it to accompany a figure. ough it is not pos- 
sible to consider the flora of the Channel Islands as other than a portion 
of that of Western France, the plants found in them have been so con- 
stantly included in all English descriptive Floras, as to have acquired a 
sort of right to be reckoned British. It is hoped, too, that by calling 
attention to a species very liable from several causes to be overlooked, a 
search may be set on foot in suitable spots of our southern and western 
counties (especially Cornwall and Devon), which may not improbably 
seni in showing Ranunculus Cherophyllos to be really an English 
plant. i ' 
ave been unsuccessful ; . the carpels of the plants in their native place did 
not develope themselves, the whole plant dried up rapidly, and at pe end 
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botanists. ; ; 
The following description is, with the exception of that of the fruit, 
entirely d fr rsev specimens, to which only it applies. 
ee ee dj Auct. Root composed of numerous 
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short, ovoid, whitish tubercles, blunt or tapering into long filiform fibres, 
he root immediately above the tubercles, and 
at points situated between adjacent ones, with a | 
colourless seale at two or three points, and terminated by a plantlet con- 
sisting of several small tubercles, and a few little ovate or three-toothed 
N.s. VOL. I. [aveust 1, 1872.] a 
