236 RANUNCULUS CILEROPHYLLOS. 
hairy bind on long petioles; Zeaves (radical) in the flowering plant few, on 
long petioles somewhat dilated at base, trifoliolate, the terminal leaflet long- 
th 
, anther innate, blunt, slightly curved — ; pie 
numerous, densely crowded, falcate, style long; fruit o ae 
numerous closely-packed achenia, forming an oblong ye : 
3-$ inch long by i inch — ; c greatly compressed, uppe 
carried on into an acute slight curved beak, low : i 
minutely shagreened (under ai kno; brownish, with a conspicuous gree 
margin. 
i ial view, there is 
` Though easily passed by for R. bulbosus on a superficial viet "e 
no possibility after examination of mistaking this for any British spect 
f s. : d 
. In Continental specimens there is great variety in the form of the 
ves, which range fro | ad 
(R. flabellatus, Desf.), through trifid (R. gregarius, Brot.), bile: iw 
deseri above, veral authors have described the sepals Es 
. : de 
» but, as noticed by Mérat (Fl. ine 
Paris, ii. p. 350), when dry with ripe fruit, striae can be see 
detached. 
m 
"EDT ns 
Good descriptions are given in Cosson and Germain's eye Wie 
(ed. 2, p. 16), Bertoloni's * Flora Italica (vol. v. p. 525), ete. hors, is very 
i Barrelier’s, given by T ws es so old 
unsatisfactory, and probably a different thing. Columna s, thoug 
e 
wing 
; tab. XXX. fig. 44) fair, The uly modern figure is the artistic ai 8 
of * R. flabellatus’ in Fl. Greca, t 20, w ch is, how wer, n udi 
and even inaccurate he specimens published in Billot's * Exsi 
Distribution.—Widel 
ending as far east as the Lebanon ra 
France, near Paris 
» and many 
vinces (Jordan, Bourgeau, Cha 
* Described from French specimens. 
us ion, eX 
Y spread through the Mediterranean "N. ; 
