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RANUNCULACfi.TL 



1. Jlf. m'uiiwus (Mousc-tail).--i— 5 in. high; leaves fleshy; 

 fediimie 1—4 in. high ; petals pale yellowish ; receptacle i — i^- in. 

 long, tapering.^This little plant growS: in cornfields, generally in 

 damp places, and is easily distinguished, from every other British 

 plant by the arrangement of its carpels, which resembles a 

 mouse's tail. — Fl. April — June. 



6. R.\NUNCULUS (Crowfoot, Buttercup, &c.).- -Herbs, annual 

 or perennial ; leaves entire, palmately lohed, or compound, some- 



t'iNCUl,7T=; At^lTATll.l'^ (IJ'ai', 



r.ot). 



times with membranous stipules ; sepals 5, rarely 3, imbricate, 

 deciduous ; petals 5 (ir more, with a nectar)- at the base, yellow or 

 white; stamens many, yellow; reeep'taele globular or oblong; 

 ca?pels many, i-ovulcd ; /;•////, an et;erio of achenes, apiculatc. 

 (Name, the diminutive from the Latin vana, a frog, an animal 

 which frequents the kind of places whefe these plants grow,) 



