RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA. SMALL SPEAR-WoOnrT. 
RANUNCULUS Lina. Gen. Pl PorvawpRiA PorvGvNiA. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5, intra ungues, poro mellifero. Sem. nuda. 
| Ran. Sym. Gen. 15. HERBA SEMINE NUDO POLYSPERMA, 
RANUNCULUS JFzmmula folis ovato-lanceolatis petiolatis caule declinato. Linn. Sy/t. Vegetab. ed. 14. 
^ Murr. b. 515. Sp. PL ed. 9. p. 772. Fl. Suec. n. 494. Scop. FI. Carn. ed. 2. 
n. 682. Hudf. Angl. ed. 2. p. 240. Procumbent Crow-Foot or Spear-Wort. 
Lightfoot Scot. V. 1. p. 288. An lus-mor, Ghlais-leun Gau/is. 
RANUNCULUS folis ovato-oblongis integerrimis, caule procumbente, F/. Lapp. 325. 
RANUNCULOUS caule declinato folus elliptico-lanceolatis fubferratis. Hall. Hit. 1182. 
RANUNCULUS longifolius paluftris minor. Bawh. Pin. 180. 
RANUNCULUS flammeus minor. Ger. 814. jig. 2. the leffer Spear-Wort; alfo, Ranunculus flam- 
meus ferrat, jig. 9. emac. p. 961. fg. 2, 3. Ram Syn. ed. 3. $. 250. the leffer 
Spear-Wort. 
RANUNCULUS paluftris flammeus minor five anguftifohus. Park. Theat. p. 1214. 

RADIX perennis, fibrofa, fibris fimplicibus, majufculis. 9 ROOT perennial, fibrous, fibres fimple, and rather 
large. 
CAULES pedales et ultra, fubereéti, flexuofi, parum 
compreffi, fubangulofi, pubefcentes, purpu- 
reo-virides, ramofi, Ramz breves, alterni, diva- 
ricati. 
STALKS a foot high or more, fomewhat upright, 
crooked, a little flattened, flightly angular, 
downy, of a purplifh green colour, branched; 
Branches fhort, alternate, divaricating., 
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FOLIA radicalia ovato-lanceolata, utrimque acuta, 
longe petiolata, petiolo canaliculari com- 
prefio; caulina remota, oblongo-lanceolata, 
brevius petiolata, petiolis bafi dilatatis, vagi- 
nantibus ; fuprema et floralia linearia; om- 
nia levia, nunc integerrima, nunc plus minus 
dentata, dentibus obtufis, inzqualibus, callo- 
fis, fubfufcis. 
LEAVES next the root ovato-lanceolate, pointed at 
each end, ftanding on long foot-ftalks, the 
foot-ftalk hollow on one fide, and flattened, 
thofe of the ftalk oblong-lanceolate, ftandmg 
on fhorter foot-ftalks, which are dilated, and 
fheathing at the bafe; the uppermoft, and 
thofe next the flowers, linear; all of them. 
{mooth, fometimes perfectly entire, fome- 
times more or lefs toothed, teeth obtufe, 
unequal, callous, and of a brownifh colour. 
FLOWERS on the top of the ftalk and branches 
4 yellow. 
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FLORES in caulium ramorumque fummitate, flavi. 
obtufis, villofiufculis, concavis, lutefcentib us, ovate, obtufe, flightly villous, concave, - yel- 
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CALYX: Perranrsium 5-phyllum, foliolis ovatis, j CALYX: a Pzn1ANTHIUM of five leaves, which are 
deciduis, fig. 1. 6 lowifh and deciduous, jig. 1. 
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COROLLA: PzTALA 5, calyce triplo longiora, rotun- 6 COROLLA: five PETArs, thrice as long as the calyx, 
dato-fubobcordata, patentia, parum concava, 9  xoundifh| and fomewhat inverfely heart. 
flava, fuperne fplendentia, ungue breviflimo, à fhaped, fpreading, flightly concave, yellow, 
Jg. 2. 6 on the upper fide glofly, claw very fhort, 
) Jg. 2. 
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NECTARIUM: foveola in ungue cujufvis petali. NECTARY : a little cavity in the claw of each petal. 
STAMINA: Fitamenta plurima, ad 30, Corolla à STAMINA: FILAMENTs numerous, to thirty, much 
multo breviora; ANTHER & erecte, oblonge, ) Íhorter than the Corolla; ANTHER & upright, 
didyme, flava. - ^ oblong, double, and yellow. 
PISTILLUM: Germina numerofa in capitulum col-  PISTILLUM : Germina numerous, forming a little 
-leéta; SrTvrr nuli; Sricmara_ reflexa, ^ head ; STYLES none; SriGMATA bent back, 
Jf 3: | fig. 3. 
The Ranunculus Flammula grows plentifully with us in marfhy places, and efpecially in the wet, and more 
boggy parts of heaths and commons, where it flowers from June to September. ' 
The latter part of Linn 2us’s defcription of this plant, does not accord with the appearance it ufually affumes 
with us, caule adfcendente, which is the reverfe of declinato, is indeed more applicable to it, not but the plant fre- 
quently grows nearly upright, as the old authors have reprefented it, though not fo perfectly upright as the 
Lingua. Mr. Hupson’s englifh name of procumbent, as it implies a greater approximation to the earth, is ftill 
more objectionable; nor can much be faid in favour of BAuuiw's name of Jongifolius, which fome have 
adopted, as it gives an idea of a longer leaf than the planthas. The old Botaniíls called thefe two fpecies 
of Ranunculus Spear-Worts, from the fhape of their leaves, the great and leffer. Mr. Ray and Mr. Ligurroor 
adopted thofe names, and we fee no good reafon why they fhould be difcontinued. 
The 
