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are feffile, digitated, and entire on the edges : 

 the Calyx Hands open, and is reflexed before ic 

 decays : the petals, in the perfect ftate of the 

 plant, are five in number, of a fliining yellow 

 color, but they are often not above two or three, 

 and fometimcs none, in the early flowering fpe- 

 cimens. This kind has no biting or cauflic quality. 



fceleratusS R- ^o\m inferioribus palmatis, fummis digitatis, 

 frudibus oblongis. Sp. pi. 776. {Ger.em. (.)6l,f. 

 4. Blakwell herb, t. 259. Pet, herb, /. 38./. 11) 



Celery-leav'd Crowfoot. Anglis, 



On the fides of ditches and ponds near tov/ns and 

 villages not unfrequent. Dr. Parfons, O. VI. 



The ftalk is thick and pithy, a cubit high, and 

 branched : the leaves are all fmooth, the radical 

 ones fupported by footftalks, and divided into 

 three lobes, the lateral ones of which are trifid ; 

 the flalk-leaves are palmated, being deeply di- 

 vided into narrow fegments ; the uppermofl aie 

 elliptical. 



The flowers are yellow, fnining and fmall, m pro- 

 portion to the fize of the plant, and the other 

 fpccies of this genus : the calyx is yellowiHi, 

 fmooth and reflexed : the nedariferous pore at 

 the bafc of the petal is Jlirrounded with a pro- 

 mijoent margin : the Stamina are in number from 

 12 to 20 : the receptacle of an oval-conic form. 



The whole plant has a moil acrimonious quality \ 



if bruifed and laid upon "any part of the bod), 



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