RANUNCULUS FILIFORMIS. 



THREAD-STEMMED RANUNCULUS. 



Polyandria Polygin'ia, Linn. Ranunculacese, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 5-leaved. Petals 5, having the inner side of each claw furnished with a mel- 

 liferous pore, often membranaceously margined or covered by a separate 

 scale. Seeds naked, numerous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Smooth, small ; stem filiform, creeping, geniculate ; genicular one-flovvercd j leaves 

 linear, subulate, obtuse. Mich. 



Plant small; stem very delicate, thread-like and creeping, di- 

 vided into joints from which radicles occasionally shoot. Radical 

 leaves an inch long, sub-spathulate, and obtuse. Caulinc leaves 

 subulate, scarcely obtuse as Michaux describes them, shorter than 

 those of the root, and generally in pairs. Flowers terminal, solitary, 

 large for size of the plant. Petals ovate, striated, gamboge-yellow. — 



