ranunculAceje 



6. R. reptans (Prostrate Spearwort). — A slender creeping form 

 with linear leaves, occurs rarely in the north ; and 



7. R. scbticus, with its earlier radical leaves reduced to recurved 

 subulate petioles, grows under water near the shores of lakes in 

 the north-west of Scotland. 



8. R. Lingua (Great Spearwort).— Stem erect, hollow, 2 — 3 feet 



high ; cauline leaves lanceo- 

 late, sessile, 6 — 10 in. long, 

 but earlier submerged ones 

 cordate and obtuse ; flowers 

 2 in. across. — The largest 

 British species, an uncommon 

 but handsome plant, growing 

 in watery places. (Named 

 from the shape of the leaf.) — 

 Fl. June — September. Peren- 

 nial. 



9. R. auricomus (Goldi- 

 locks). Root fibrous ; stem 

 slender, about a foot high, 

 nearly smooth ; radical leaves 

 long-stalked, reniform, 3 — 

 7-lobed ; cauline leaves sessile, 

 palmatifid, with sub-entire 

 lobes ; f in. across ; sepals 

 spreading, downy, yellow ; 

 petals often partly absent. — 

 In copses. — Fl. April, May. 

 Perennial. 



10. R. dcris (Buttercup). — 

 Root fibrous ; stem sometimes 

 a rhizome, without runners ; 

 radical leaves palmately 3 — 

 7-lobed, lobes deeply cut ; 

 cauline leaves 3-lobed with 

 entire linear lobes ; peduncle 



branched, not furrowed, 1 — 3 feet high, hairy ; flowers 1 in. 

 across ; sepals downy, spreading ; carpels glabrous. — -Meadows. — 

 Fl. April — September. Perennial. 



11. R. ripens (Creeping Buttercup). — Differing mainly in its 

 less height, long runners, and furrowed hairy peduncle. — A trouble- 

 some weed in meadows and waste ground. — Fl. May — August. 

 Perennial. 



12. R.bulbbsus (Bulbous Buttercup).— Differing mainly in its 



r. bulb6sus {Bulbous Buttercup). 



