I. RANUNCULACE^. 



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toothed. Mowers yellow, on long peduncles, seldom more 

 an inch in diameter, and often much 

 smaller. Carpels in a small globular 

 head, each with a very short, usually 

 hooked beak. 



In marshes and wet pastures, and on 

 the borders of lakes and ponds, common 

 throughout Europe, except perhaps the 

 southern extremity, extending all over 

 Russian Asia, and, at high latitudes, 

 into North America. Abundant in Bri- 

 tain. Fl. the whole summer. It varies 

 much in the size of its parts, the breadth 

 of the leaves, etc. ; and a not uncommon 

 form, with slender creeping stem and 

 small flowers, has been published as a 

 species under the name of It. rejptans. 



than half 



5. Snaketongue Ranunculus. Ranunculus ophioglossi- 



folius, Vill. (Fig. 13.) 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2833.) 



Very nearly allied to the spear _5., but 

 said to be always annual. The stem is 

 more erect and branched, the lower 

 leaves broadly ovate, and sometimes 

 slightly cordate, and all broader in pro- 

 portion than in the spear It., and the 

 flowers smaller, the petals scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the calyx. Carpels minutely 

 granulated. 



In marshes in southern Europe, ex- 

 tending northward through western 

 France to St. Peter's marsh in Jersey, 

 where it was found by Mr. Babington. 

 Fl. June. Fig. 13. 



G. Figwort Ranunculus. Ranunculus Ficaria, Linn. (Eig. 14.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 584. Lesser Celandine.) 

 Itootstock small, emitting a number of oblong or cylindrical tubers, 

 which are renewed annually. Leaves mostly radical, cordate, obtuse, 

 angular or crenate, thick, smooth, and shining. Elower-stems usually 

 scarcely longer than the root-leaves, bearing one or two small leaves 



