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CULUS AURICOMUS. WoOD CROWFOOT. 



RANUNCULUS Linnai Gen. pi. Polyandria Polygynia. Cal. 5 phyllus. Petala 5 infra ungues 



poro mellifero. Sem. nuda. 

 Rati Syn. G n. 15 Herbje semine nudo polyspermy. 



RANUNCULUS aurkomus foliis radicalibus fubreniformibus, tripartitis, acute crenatis, caulinis digitatis 

 linearibus. 



RANUNCULUS aurkomus foliis radicalibus reniformibus crenatis incifis, caulinis digitatis linearibus, 

 caule multifloro. Linn<sei Syjl. Vegetab.p. 429. Fl. Sueck. 194. 



RANUNCULUS foliis radicalibus integris et femitrilobatis rotunde crenatis, caulinis multipartitis lineari- 

 bus integerrimis. Haller. hifl. n. 1 1 77. 



RANUNCULUS aurkomus. Scopoli FL Cam. «.687. ' 

 RANUNCULUS nemorofus vel fylvaticus folio rotundo Bauhln pin. 178» 

 RANUNCULUS aurkomus Ger. emac. 954. 



RANUNCULUS nemorofus dulcis fecundus Tragi Parkinfon 326. Fufchii Icon. 156. opt. Rait Syn, 

 p. 248. Sweet Crowfoot or Goldilocks. Hudfon. FL Angl. p. 211. 



RADIX perennis, fubpraemorfa, mitis, fapore fubdulci | ROOT perennial, fomewhat flumped, mild, with a tafte 

 Glycyrrhizae accedenti, fibris multis capillar!- | fomewhat refembling liquorice, furnifhed 



bus inftructa. % with many fmall fibres. 



CAULIS pedalis, ereclus, dichotomus aut trichotomus, | STALK about a foot high, upright, dividing into two 

 teres, glaber, ball purpureus. % or three branches, round, fmooth and purplifh 



% at bottom. 



FOLIA lama, radicalia petiolis longis infidentia, fubreni- | LEAVES at the bottom of the ftalk fmooth, fitting on 

 formia, mire variantia, integra, tripartita aut % long footftalks, fomewhat kidney fhaped, vary- 



etiam quinquepartita, plerumque vero tripartita | ing exceedingly, being fometimes entire, fome- 



lobis acute crenatis, caulina inferiora pedata, | times divided into three, or even five lobes, 



lobis latis, tripartitis aut quadripartis, dentatis, | but moll: commonly tripartite ; the lobes acute- 



fuperiora feffilia, linearia, fubintegerrima, am- | ly crenated ; the leaves towards the bottom di- 



plexicaulia. % vided nearly to the bafe, with three or four 



I fegments, indented; the uppermost leaves 



£ fertile, linear, almofl entire, and embracing 



t the {talk, 



PETIOLI teretes, pubefcentes. I FOOT-STALKS of the leaves round and pubefcent. 



CALYX : Peri an thium pentaphyllum, foliolis ovatis, ¥ CALYX; a Perianthium of five leaves, the leaves 

 cbncavis, flavefcentibus, patentibus Jig. 1. | oval, concave, yellowim, and fpreading. /g. 1. 



COROLLA: Petala quinque, fubrotunda, flava; % COROLLA five roundim yellow petals, with fmall un- 

 unguibus parvis. jig. 2. | gues or claws, jig. 2. 



NECTAR1UM : fovea fine fquamula ad bafin petalo- | NECTARY : a depreffion without any fcale, at the 

 rum fupra ungues. t bottom of the petals above the Claws. 



STAMINA: Filament a plurima, baft* anguftiora; | STAMINA: Filaments numerous, narrow at bot- 

 Ant her je oblongae, flavae, compreflae, incur- $ torn; Anthers oblong, yellow, flattened,, 



vatse ; duas aut tres vidi connatas. jig. 3. 5. | and incurvated. I obferved two or three grow- 



au£t. I in S together, jig. 3. 5. magnified. 



PISTILLUM: Germina numerofa in capitulum col- t PISTILLUM: Germina numerous, collected into a 

 lecla; Stigmata reflexa, minima, jig. 4. | little head ; Stigmata fmall and reflexed./g. 4. 



SEMINA, fufca, compreffa, apicibus reflexis. jig. 6. % SEEDS brown, flat with a reflexed point, jig. 6. 



Diftinguimed from the other Crowfoots by its growing in Woods ; (though I have fometimes found it in boggy 

 meadows,) by its Calyx being nearly as yellow as its petals, and not turning back as in the bulhojus ; the Nectary 

 at the bottom of the petals a fmall oblique hole running downwards, not cover'd with any fquamula ; the bottom 

 leaves of the plant more entire, and thofe at the top narrower than in moft of the other Crowfoots; the footftalks 

 of the flowers not grooved ; the Petals often wanting, particularly when cultivated in Gardens, or not fheltered by 

 Trees. 



It flowers in April and May ; and is not particularly diftiuguifhed for its Ules or Beauty. 



