ANUNCULUS SCELERATUS. CeLERY-LEAV'D CROWFOOT. 



RANUNCULUS Lin. Gen. PL Polyandria Polygynia. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 15. Herb^e semine nudo polyspermy. 

 RANUNCULUS fceleratus foliis inferioribus palmatis ; fummis digitatis, fructibus oblongis. Lin* SyJ. 



Vegetab. p. 429. Sp. PL p. 776. FL Suecic. p. 194. n. 499. 

 RANUNCULUS foliis levibus, femitrilobatis, rotunde ferratis, fru&uovato. Haller hift.p, 74. n, 11 75, 

 RANUNCULUS fceleratus. Scopoli PI. Carniol. n. 688. 

 RANUNCULUS paluftris apii folio laevis. Bauhin. pin. 180. 

 RANUNCULUS paluftris rotundifolius. Ger. etnac. 96 z. 

 RANUNCULUS paluftris fardonia laevis. Parkin/on. 121 5. Rail Syn. p. 249. Round-leaved Water 



Crowfoot. 



Hudfon FL Angl. p. 212. 



Oeder Dan. icon. 570. 



Llghtfoot FL Scot. p. 291. Celery-leaved Crowfoot. 



RADIX annua, fibrofiffima, fibris albidis. f ROOT annual, exceedingly fibrous, the fibres whitrfh. 



CAULIS ereaus, pedalis ad bipedalem, infigniter craf- % STALK upright, from one to two feet high, remark- 

 fus, fiftulofus, laevis, ramofus. | ably thick, hollow, fmooth, and branched. 



FOLIA radicalia longe petiolata, nitida, fubcarnofa, | LEAVES : radical leaves fitting on long foot-ftalks, 



trilobata, lobis trifidis rotunde crenatis ; cau- ! Aiming, fomewhat flemy, divided into three 



lina fubfeffilia, palmata; fuprema elliptica. % lobes ; the lobes trifid and roundly notched; 



% ftalk-leaves nearly feffile, and palmated ;. up- 



I permofl leaves elliptical. 

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FLORES exigui, flavi. | FLOWERS fmall and yellow. 



CALYX: PERiANTHiuMpentaphvllnm,foliolisovatis, | CALYX: a Perianthium of five leaves, the leaves 

 concavis, flavefcentibus, deciduis, jig. 1. | oval, hollow, yellowim and deciduous, fig. u 



COROLLA: Petala quinque, parva, ovata, flava, | COROLLA : five fmall, oval, yellow mining Petals, 



nitida, magnitudine calycis, decidua, fig. 2. f the fize of the Calyx, and deciduous, fig. 2. 



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NECTARIUM: Fovea marginata, ad bafin cujufvis | NECTARY, a depreffion or pore at the bafe of each 



„^-1: fo % Petal, furrounded by a prominent margin, 



petali, M . 3. * fi g . 3. 



STAMINA :Fil amen T A plurima, ram ultra viginti, | STAMINA: Filaments numerous, feldorr t more 

 bafi tenuiora : Anther* flavae, compreflb, | than twenty, {lender at bottom : Anther* 



biloculares, fig. 5. | 7 ellow > flat and Jocular, J%. 5. 



PISTILLUM: Germina numerofa, in capitulumob- | PISTILLUM : Germina numerous colleded toge- 

 lonP-um, colleda: Stigmata minima, ger- f ther into an oblong head : Stigmata very 



minibus infidentia. | minute, fitting on the Germina. 



SEMINA plurima, compreffa, ovato-acuminata, par- | SEEDS numerous, flat oval and pointed, fmall, affix- 

 va, receptaculo oblongo affixa, fig. 6. f ed to an oblong receptacle, fig. 6. 



THIS fpecies is diftinguhned from the other Crowfoots, by its growing in or near the water, by its broad 

 mining bottom leaves, thick ftalk, fmall yellow flowers, and fmooth oblong feed-heads 



The leaves and flowers poffefs a confiderable degree of acrimony, fo as even to bhfter the fkm if applied to 

 it: chewed in the mouth, they inflame and chop the tongue : nor have their effects been .Ids violent when taken 

 into the ftomach. It is fufpeded to have proved poifonous to flieep. Haller hifl. helv. p.p. 



It begins to flower in May and June, and continues in bloffom all the Summer by the fides of pond, and ditches, 



It is eaten by goats, but refufed by kine, fheep, and horfes, Lmn, Amam. Acad. 



