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and straight subulate style, smooth and glabrous, a little more than a 

 line long. The cylindraceous or somewhat club-shaped and papillose 

 receptacle, from which the ripe achenia have fallen, is a quarter of an 

 inch long, and minutely hairy. 



It is much to be regretted that all the specimens of this interesting 

 and well-marked species were past flowering, and even the fruit had 

 mostly fallen from the receptacle. The species is probably allied to 

 the curious R. pinguis, Hook, f., also an Aucklandian species, on the 

 one hand, as it certainly is to the Tasmanian R. scapigerus, Hook., 

 on the other ; but it is entirely distinct from both. 



* * ¥r * Novo-Hollandici. 



10. Ranunculus lappaceus, Smith. 



R. lappaceus, Smith, in Kees Cycl. no. 61; DC. Syst. 1, p. 286; Hook. Jour. Bot. 

 1, p. 243 (excl. syn. R. plebeius, R. Br. ?). 



Hab. Near Sydney, New Holland. 



A species very variable in foliage, with flowers as large as those of 

 R. acris, with which it is justly compared by Smith, or of R. bulbosus, 

 and of the same deep yellow colour. 



11. Ranunculus inundatus, R. Br. in DC. 



Var. floribus majoribus; petalis sepala plerumque duplo superantibus. 



Hab. Hunter's River and Woolongong, New Holland (also, Sydney, 

 Bynoe and Wilberforce, Backhouse, in herb. Hook.) 



Some specimens appear to have the very small flowers assigned to 



the species by DeCandolle ; in others they are more developed, with 



petals a quarter of an inch in length; and all belong, I doubt not, to 



Mr. Brown's Ranunculus inundatus; these amphibious plants being 



variable in such respects, according to the conditions under which 



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