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THE BRITISH HERBAL. 
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It is common in running, as well as landing | 
waters ; and flowers in June. 
Linnxus confiders this only as a variety of the 
former ; but their difference is eficntial. No one 
will doubt it who fires them growing together- 
This never has any of thofc entire, rounded leaves 
that float on the furhce in the other ; and the 
flowers are always much fmaller. 
J. Bauhine calls it Rammctdus aquatkus ommno 
tcnuifoliiis. C. Bauhine, Millefolium aqucitiam ra- 
ttunculifiore et cafitulo, 
14. Tender-leaved Water Crowfoot. 
Kanmculiis aqxiaticus foliis mincnbus capillaceis. 
The root is a tuft of fmall, but long, biackifh 
fibres. 
The lirfl: leaves are broad, fhort, and placed 
on long footftalks, and they are divided into mi- 
nute and narrow pares. 
The ilalk rifes in the miJfl", and thefe leaves 
foon after wither. TWs is a foot or more in 
height, very {lender and weak, and has kaves fet 
alternately in a confiderable number, and they are 
very beautiful : they ftand on Hiort iootftalks, and 
are compofed of a multitude of very narrow parts, 
which are fo placed that the whjle leaf is of a 
rounded figure. 
The flowers Hand on long footftalks, and they 
are large and white, with a tuft of yellow buttons 
lupported on fliort threads in the middle. 
The feeds are fmall, and ftand in a little round 
clufter. 
It is common in fliallow, ftanding waters that 
have a muddy bottom, and is ufually altogether 
under water. 
C. Bauhine calls it Millefolium aquaticum cornu- 
lum. Plukenet, Ranunculus iiouatiats albtis cird- 
natis tenuilfme divifts foliis. 
15. Fennel-leaved Water Crowfoot. 
Ranunculus aquaiicus jolUs longiffmis. 
The root is a large tuft of thick, tough, and 
extremely long fibres. 
'I'he firft leaves are very large, of a dark green, 
and divided into numerous narrow fegments. 
The Italks are numerous \ they rife in the 
centre of thefe leaves, which foon alter wither. 
They are very long, tender, weak, round, di- 
vided into branches, and jointed. They follow 
the courfe of the water, and run with it to a great 
length. 
The leaves are very large, and of a dark 
green. They are long, and divided into many 
long fegments. They refemble thofe on the ftalks 
ofienneli but they are longer, and the' divifions 
not fo numerous. 
The flowers are large and white, with a tuft of 
yellow buttons, fupported on fliort threads, in the 
centre. 
The feeds are fmall, and ftand in a little, round, 
naked head. 
This is diftinguifhcd at fight, from all the pre- 
ceding kinds, by the leaves being divided into 
much fewer, and thofe vatlly longer fegments. 
I: is common in large rivers i and flowers in 
June. 
C, Bauhine call it Millefolium aquaficmn foliis 
funiculi. Ranunculi flora et^caplulo. Others, ra?;«?2- 
cidus aquaiicus foliis faniculaceis. 
DIVISION II. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
' " ' I. White- flowered tall Crowfoot. 
Ranunculus aconili folio fiore albo. 
fl^he root is compofed of a multitude of chick 
and long fibres, growing from a fmall head. 
The firft leaves ftand on footftalks four or five 
inches long, and are of a paie green colour when 
they fii fl^ rile, but dufliier afterwards. They are 
large, and deeply divided into three or five parts. 
Thefe are broad, oblong, pointed and ferrated at 
t!ie edges. 
The ftalk is round, thick, flefliy, firm, and 
three foot high, 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are like 
thofe from the root; but fmaller, of a dufky 
green, pointed and ferrated. 
The flowers ftand ac the tops of numerous 
branches, into which the ftalk divides in the up- 
per part. They are large and white. 
The feeds ftand in little, roundifli, naked heads. 
The leaves of this plant have not the firey 
fharpnefs to the tafte of many others. 
It is a native ot" the Alps and other moun- 
tainous parts of Europe, and flowers in June. 
Ciufius calls it Ranunculus mantanus. Others, 
Ranunculus montanus aconili folio flore alh. 
2. Purple Crowfoot. 
■ - • Ranunculus hirfutus flon purpurea. 
The root is compofed of a great tuft of 
fibres ; they are very long, white, and firm. 
The firft leaves ftand on long, hairy footftalks. 
They are large, of a rounded form, but divided 
deeply into five, fcven, or nine fegments. They 
are hairy, of a pale green, and ferrated. 
The ftalk is a foot and half high ; and is weak 
and flender ; hairy, and of a pale green. 
Towards its top there ftands a leaf of a parti- 
cular form furrounding it, without a footftalk, 
and divided into fevera!, narrow, ferrated feg- 
ments, pale and hairy. 
From this part the ftalk divides intio three or 
four branches, which are fhort, and flender, and 
each furniflied with a little leaf or two, and with 
a very beautiful flower on its top, which is large, 
and in part purple, in part of a fnow white. 
The feeds ftand in little naked clufters. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Rammctdus -riiontanus, hir- 
futus furpurafcente flore. 
3. Low Crowfoot with prickly feeds. 
Ranunculus annuus femine echinatg. 
The root is compofed of a great clufter of 
flender fibres connedted to a fmall head. 
The leaves rifing from it are fupported on 
flender footftalks, hollowed at the bottom : they 
are fmall, of a figure between rounded and tri- 
angulate, and divided deeply into three parts. 
They are alfo notched all about the edges. 
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