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THE BRITISH HERBAL. 
It is common in running, as well as ftanding 
waters; and flowers in June. 
Linnzus confiders this only as a variety of the 
former ; but their difference is effential. No one 
will doubt it who fees them growing together. 
This never has any of thofe entire, rounded leaves 
that float on the furface in the other; and the 
flowers are always much fmaller. . 
J. Bauhine calls it Ranunculus aquaticus omnino 
tenuifolius. C. Bauhine, Millefolium aquaticum ra- 
nunculi flore et capitulo, 
14. Tender-leaved Water Crowfoot. 
Ranunculus aquaticus foliis minoribus capillaceis. 
_ The root is a tuft of fmall, but long, blackifh 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are broad, fhort, and placed 
on long footftalks, and they are divided into mi- 
nute and narrow parts. ay 
The ftalk rifes in the midft, and thefe leaves 
foon after wither. Tis is a foot or more in 
height, very flender and weak, and has leaves fet 
alternately in a confiderable number, and they are 
very beautiful : they ftand on fhort footftalks, and 
are compofed of a multitude of very narrow parts, 
which are fo placed that the whole leaf is of a 
rounded figure. 
The flowers ftand on long footftalks, and they 
are large and white, with a tuft of yellow buttons 
fupported on fhort threads in the middle, 
The feeds are fmall, and ftand in a little round 
clutter. J 
It is common in fhallow, -ftanding waters that 
have a muddy bottom, and is ufually altogether 
under water. 
DIVISION I. 
1. White-flowered tall Crowfoot. 
Ranunculus aconiti folio lore albo. 
The root is compofed of a multitude-of thick 
and long fibres, growing from a fmall head. 
The firft leaves ftand on footftalks four or five 
inches long, and are of a pale green colour When 
they firft rife, but dufkier afterwards. They are 
large, and deeply divided into three or five parts. 
Thefe are broad, oblong, pointed and ferrated at 
the edges. : 
The ftalk is round, thick, flefhy, firm, and 
three foot high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are like 
thofe: from the root; but fmaller, of a dufky 
green, pointed and ferrated. : 
The flowers ftand at the tops of numerous 
branches, into which the ftalk divides in the up- 
per part. They are large and white. 
The feeds ftand in little, roundifh, naked heads. 
The leaves of this plant have not the firey 
fharpnefs to the tafte of many others. 
Tt is a native of the Alps and other moun- 
tainous parts of Europe, and flowers in June. 
Clufius calls it Ranunculus montanus. Others, 
Ranunculus montanus aconiti folio lore albo. 
2. Purple Crowfoot. 
Ranunculus hirfutus flore purpureo. 
The root is compofed of a great tuft of 
fibres; they are very long, white, and firm. 
FOREIGN 
C. Bauhine calls it Millefolium aquaticum cornu- 
tum. Plukenet, Ranunculus aquaticus albus circi- 
natis tenuiffime divifis foliis. 
15. Fennel-leaved Water Crowfoot. 
Ranunculus aquaticus foliis longiffimis. 
The root is a large tuft of thick, tough, and 
extremely long fibres. 
The firft leaves are very large, of a dark green, 
and divided into numerous narrow fegments. 
The ftalks are numerous; they rife in the 
centre of thefe leaves, which foon after wither. 
They are very long, tender, weak, round, di- 
vided into. branches, and jointed. They follow 
the courfe of the water, and run with it to a great 
length. 
The leaves are very large, and of a dark 
green. They are long, and divided into many 
long fegments. They refemble thofe on the ftalks 
of fennel; but they are longer, and the divifions 
not fo numerous. 
The flowers are large and white, with a tuft of 
yellow buttons, fupported on fhort threads, in the 
centre. 
The feeds are fmall, and ftand in a little, round, 
naked head. 
This is diftinguifhed at fight, from all the pre- 
ceding kinds, by. the leaves being divided into 
much fewer, and thofe vaftly longer fegments. 
It is common in Jarge rivers; and flowers in 
June. : : 
C. Bauhine call it Millefolium aquaticum foliis 
feniculi, Ranunculi flore et,capitulo. Others, ranun- 
culus aquaticus foliis feniculaceis. 
SP EsCor Biss. 
The firft leaves ftand on long, hairy footftalks, 
They are large, of a rounded form, but divided 
deeply into five, feven, or nine fegments. They 
are hairy, of a pale green, and ferrated. 
The ftalk is a foot and half high ; and is weak 
and flender ; hairy, and of a pale green. 
Towards its top there ftands a leaf of a parti- 
cular form furrounding it, without a footftalk, 
and divided into feveral, narrow, ferrated feg- 
ments, pale and hairy. 
From this part the ftalk divides into three or 
four branches, which are fhort, and flender, and 
each furnithed with a little leaf or two, and with 
a very beautiful flower on its top, which is large, 
and in part purple, in part of a fhow white. 
The feeds ftand in little naked clufters, 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ranunculus montanus, bir- 
futus purpurafcente flore, 
3. Low Crowfoot with prickly feeds. 
Ranunculus annuus femine echinato. 
The root is compofed of a great clufter of 
flender fibres connected to a fmall head. 
The leaves rifing from it are fupported on 
flender footftalks, hollowed at the bottom : they 
are, {mall, of a figure between rounded and tri- 
angulate, and divided deeply into three parts. 
They are alfo notched all about the edges, 
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