RANUNCULACE/E 



6. R. liptans (Prostrate Spearwort).^-A slender creeping form 

 with linear leaves, occurs rarely in the north ; and 



7. R. swticus, with its earlier radical leaves reduced to recurved 

 subulate petioles, grows under water near the shores of lakes in 

 the north-west of Scotland. 



8. R. Lingua (Great Spearwort). — Skm erect, hollow, 2 — 3 feet 



high ; cauline leaves lanceo- 

 late, sessile, 6 — 10 in. long, 

 buti earlier submerged ones 

 cordate and obtuse ; flowers 

 2 in. across. — The largest 

 British species, an uncommon 

 but' handsome plant, growing 

 in watery places. (Named 

 from the shape of the leaf) — 

 Fl. June — September. Peren- 

 nial,. 



(). R. (Vn'u'omiis (Goldi- 

 locl5;s). Root fibrous ; ste)ii 

 slender, about a foot high, 

 nearly smooth ; radieal leaves 

 long-s'talked, reniform, 3 — 

 7-lotjed ; cauline leaves sessile, 

 palmatifid, witli sub-entire 

 liibfs; \ in. across: sepals 

 spreading, downy, yellow ; 

 _ petals often partly absent. — 

 In copses. — i'T April, May. 

 1 'ci'cnnial. 



ro. R. deris (buttercup). — 



Root hbrous ; stem sometimes 



a rhizome, without runners ; 



nul/cal leaves jialmately 3 — 



/-Iqbed, lobes deeply cut ; 



eaiiliiie leaves ;-'obed with 



entire hnear lobes ; pedunele 



feet high, hairy ; flinvers i in. 



_ ; eaipels glabrous. -Meadows. — 



Fl. April — September. I'crennial. 



11. R. repens (Creeping l-!iiftercup).,--I)iftering mainly in its 

 less height, long runners, ii\^6. furrowed hairy /-cv///;/,-/,-. — A trouble- 

 some weed in meadows and waste grouiid.--Fl. May — August. 

 Perennial. 



12. R. bulbbsus (bulbous iJuttercup). — Differing mainly in its 



K. BrLB''isu.s {Hiilhous TUftieraip). 



branched, not furrowed, i 

 across ; sepals downy, spreading 



