PHANEROGAMIA. 



8. Ranunculus plebeius, B. Br. ? 



Ranunculus plebeius, A. Chum., Bot. N. Zeal., 1. c. p. 258; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 

 9 j an R. Br. ? 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



This is certainly the R. plebeius of A. Cunningham, and a species 

 abundantly collected in New Zealand by Mr. Colenso and Dr. Hooker; 

 but I doubt if it be Mr. Brown's New Holland species. It does 

 resemble some forms of the polymorphous B. repens; but is quite un- 

 like B. acris. 



9. Ranunculus Aucklandicus, Sp. Nov. 



B. sericeo-strigosus ; caule simplici e rhizomate subrepente erecfo bi/oliato 

 superne longe nudo unifloro; foliis longe petiolatis rotundatis vel reni- 

 formibus trijidis sinubus claims, segmenlis cuneiformibus incisosub- 

 lobatis; carpellis compressis immarginatis Icevibus breviter apimdatis 

 in receptaculum cylindraceum pilosiusculum acervatis. 



Hab. Lord Auckland Islands. 



Rhizoma horizontal, short and rather thick, sending out stout 

 fibrous roots, and throwing up a solitary erect stem, which in the 

 fruiting state is from 6 to 10 inches high, rather stout, strigose-hir- 

 sute with appressed and stiff hairs, two-leaved below, the long and 

 naked summit or peduncle from 3 to 6 inches long. Radical and 

 cauline leaves similar, on long strigose-hirsute petioles, which are 

 dilated and partly sheathing at the base ; the blade round or rounded 

 kidney-shaped, or the uppermost truncate or barely subcordate at the 

 base, both surfaces clothed equally with silky-strigose pubescence; 

 they are from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, thickish in 

 texture but not fleshy, three-cleft to or beyond the middle, but with 

 the sinuses mostly closed; the broadly cuneiform lobes again 2-3-lobed, 

 or coarsely toothed and incised. The flowers not known. The ripe 

 carpels are ovate, compressed, not margined, apiculate with a very short 



