1. RANUNCULACE2E. 
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ticketed R. trilobus Desf., cannot be distinguished from his 
Teneriffe specimens of the true R. parvifiorus L. — The HII. 
contains however true Canarian specimens from Webb of R. tri- 
lobus a, with Azorian also of both a. and (3. 
No such pi. has occurred in Madeira as R. rhceadifolius DC. 
Deless. Ic. 1. t. 40, which also, by specimens in HH., appears 
distinct enough, with its much more hairy and divided Escholt- 
zia-like 1., from the present sp., to which it is referred by Webb 
and Walpers. 
5. R. PARVIFLORUS L. 
Hairy -pubescent ; st. prostrate or procumbent weak and slendei' 
almost filiform branched here and there only ; 1. all trifid, their 
lobes or segments wedge-shaped, in the upper deeply cut or 
toothed ; pedic. opposite the 1. remote all along the st. ; sep. 
refiexcd pubescent; pet. subabortive 3-4 oblong not longer than 
the sep . ; disk of ach. all over thickly echinulate with hooked or 
pointed tubercles. — Desf. 1. 441 ; Brot. ii. 371 ; EB. t. 120 ; DC. 
1. 42; Sm. E. FI. iii. 53; WB. ! i. 11; Bab. 11. 
/3. acutilobus DC. WB. 1. c. ; 1. more deeply 3-cleft, the seg- 
ments deeply cut with large acute teeth. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 
1, 2 ; r. Gutters in Machico, and descent into Rib. Frio in the 
road. May-Jidy. — St. 6-10 in. long, weak and trailing or 
diffusely spreading horizontally, their ends ascending. FI. in- 
conspicuous small pale y. Ach. few (8-10) in a head, rather 
large proportionately to the pi. ; their margin very narrow ; 
tubercles of the disk tipped each with a short hooked weak or 
bristly point. Beak short curved hooked at the tip. Recept. 
smooth. 
6. R. muricatus L. 
Smooth or with only a few scattered hairs, shining ; st. robust 
and firm, at first erect, soon diffuse or spreading stiffly, much 
branched from the base ; lower l. round or renifonn S-lobed 
coarsely inciso-crenate, upper trifid wedge-shaped at the base ; 
pedic. opposite the 1. slightly hirtose; sep. slightly hirtose 
spreading ; pet. ovate-oblong small not longer than the sep. ; 
disk of ach. all over prickly with long-beaked hooked or pointed 
tubercles, the margin unarmed even. — Desf. 1. 440; Brot. ii. 373; 
DC. 1.42; Presl 19; WB. ! i. 9, 10 ; Koch 20. —Herb. ann. Mad. 
r eg. 1,2; c. PS. reg. 1 ; r. Gutters and wet places by roadsides 
about Funchal, and in PS. about the large tank halfway across the 
island. March, Apr. principally, but irregularly throughout the 
year. — Herbage pale gr. very shining. St. 4-8 or 10 in. high, 
short stiff thick and hollow. FI. small bright v. Ach. broadly 
margined, their beak in the specimens short broad slightly 
curved and hooked at the tip. 
