ANEMONE. BANtJNCULTJS. 5 



Inv. silky, close to tlie flower, but distant from the fruit. — 

 Open calcareous pastures, rare. P. IV. V. Pasque flower. E. 



2. A. nemordsa (L.) ; fl. solitary, sep. 6 oblong spreading, 

 inr. of 3 ternate or quinate stalked leaves with lobed and cut 

 leaflets, 1. similar, carp, pubescent heeled. — E. H. 355. R. iv. 

 47. — Fl. white or purplish; stalk 4 — 8 in. high. Beak about 

 as long as the carp., not tailed. Root-stock horizontal. Sep. 

 glabrous on both sides. — Groves and thickets, common. P. III. 

 —V. Wind-flowa: E. S. I. 



[A. apennina (L.) ; fl. solitary, sep. many lanceolate, involucre 

 of 3 ternate stalked deeply cut leaves, 1. similar, " carp, pointed 

 without tails."— ^. £. 1062. M. iv. 47.— Fl. bright blue. Root- 

 stock tuberous and roundish. — Scarcely naturalized. P. IV.] E. 



[_A. ranunculoi'des (L.) ; fl. solitary or in pairs, sep. 5 elliptic, 

 involucre of 3 nearly sessile ternate deeply cut leaves, 1. similar 

 often quinate, carp, pointed downy without tails. — E. S. 1484. 

 iJ. iv. 47. — Fl. briyht yellow. Sep. externally pubescent. Root- 

 stock similar to that of Sp. 2. — A very doubtful native. P. IV. ] 



4. Ado'nis Linn. Pheasant's Eye. 



X 1. A. autumndlis (L.) ; cal. glabrous patent, pet. connivent, 

 carp, without teeth collected into an ovate head and tipped with 

 a straight beak. — JE. S. 308. R. iii. 24. — Pet. scarlet, black at 

 the base, scarcely exceeding the sepals. L. triply and copiously 

 pinnatifid, segments linear. St. about 8 in. high. — Com-flelds, 

 rare. A. VII. E. 



Tribe III. RanunculetB. 



5. MTOsu'Etrs Linn. Mousetail. 



1. M. min'imus (L.J. — -E. B. 435. Jt. iii. 1. — Scales many, 

 single-flowered, 2 — 5 in. high. L. linear, fleshy. Receptacle 

 becoming very long, with many oblong carpels. Seed attached 

 to the upper part of the carp, and pendulous, the radicle point- 

 ing upwards. — In damp places in fields. A. V. VI. E. 



6. Eanttn'ctjlttb Linn. Crowfoot. 



A, Fr.-st. arching ; carp, transversely wrinkled laterally attaclied, 

 pet. white (with a yellow claw in all our plants), nectary not 

 covered with a scale. Batbachium Fries. Water Crow- 

 foot. ' 



* Submersed leaves twice or thrice 3-furoate with filiform seg- 

 ' See Mr. Hiern's paper on Batrachium in J. of B. ix. 208. 



