RANUNCULUS ACER L. 881 
R. acer L. Spec. 779 (sensu lato); G. et G. Fl. Fr. i. p. 82; 
Gren. Rev. Fi. Jura, p. 27; Lamotte, Prodr. Fl. Plat. Centr. p- 47. 
—Rootstock with or without rhizome, producing buds furnished 
with acuminate or subobtuse hairy or villous seales. Root-leaves 
ee r 
Sepals villous. ca 20-30, poeceae compresse sed, with more or less 
hooked beak, beak less than half the length of the earpel.. 2. 
May-July. 
Three subspecies. 
Sussrecies I.—R. Boraanus. Rootstock short, often fascicled, 
broad, ultimate divisions numerous narro 
Form I. Rk. Boreanus Jord. (pro specie), Obs. Fragm. 6, p. 19; 
Diagn. p» T1; Bor. Fl. Centre, ed. 8, p. 16; Gren. Rev. Fl. Jura, 
o. 18; Fre 
DC, = iE Neapolitanus Crantz, non Ten.; R. napellifolius ae re 
Exsicc.: Bill. nos. 1105 et 8504; Reliq. Maill. no. 158; 
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cence. Beak of carpels short. I have gathered this in Hampshire 
Sussex, Surrey, Warwickshire, Wie ae Glanecseekic, 
s-shire. 
enshir Tnve n 
tomophyllus Jord. (pro specie) Diagn. p. 71; Gren. / 
Base of stem and petioles Laake clothed with ea or r ratlexed 
fulvous hairs, rootstock with shortly developed oblique rhizome. 
This I have gathered in Surrey, Devon, Berkshire, Worcestershire, 
Aberdeenshire, and Inverness-shire. 
I.—R. rectus Bor. (pro specie) Fl. Centre, ed. 8, p. 15 
(J. Bauh. Hist. 3, p. 416, fig. 1); Lamotte, Prodr. Fl. Pl. Centr. 
of the leaves wider, primary lobes more oblong-cuneiform, their 
borders not touching; rootstock more prolonged; beak of carpels 
longer.—This I have gathered in Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, 
iy gel Warwi Grabs, Cumberland, Aberdeenshire. It 
has been gathered in Shetland by Mr. Bee 
ae pumilus.—Plant dwarf, few- Bowed (A. parvulus Clairv., 
alam .)» Mr. Beeby has communicated plants he gathered in 
Shet. 
species, so that the adoption of Pir are ’s names on the wvibidetiy of sctbiheena 
would only cause detrimental confus 
