RANUNCULUS. 
3 
f3. Aquilegia. Sep. 5 petal-like deciduous. Pet. 5, 2-lipped 
funnel-shaped produced downwards between the sepals 
into a long hollow horn-like spur. Follicles 5 distinct, each 
acuminate and tipped with the style. 
4. Delphinium. Sep. 5 petal-like deciduous irregular or 
unequal, the uppermost being produced downwards into a 
long spur. Pet. 4, the 2 upper each with spurs enclosed 
within the sepal-spur, or all combined into a monopetalous 
single-spurred cor. Follicles 1, 3 or 5, distinct. 
Tribe I. Ranunculeee. 
1. Ranunculus L. 
Crowfoot or Butter- cup. 
* Leaves divided. FI. y. Nectary with a scale. Ach. com- 
pressed, lenticular, marginate, even , unarmed. 
t Root fascicled or grumose. 
1. R. grandifolius Lowe. Douradinha or Ouradinha. 
Hairy pubescent sometimes villose, hairs soft and silky, all 
quite simple at the base, those of the stem close-pressed ; st. stout 
erect branched corymbose ; 1. light gr. unspotted shining some- 
what harsh or stiff, the lower stem and root-leaves roundish- 
reniform. or cordate, undivided and obtusely pinnatilobate, rarely 
pinnatipartite or more deeply cut and gashed, the edges always 
sharply and finely or copiously cut and toothed ; upper st. -leaves 
3-5-pinnatipartite, the uppermost sessile simple lanceolate en- 
tire ; fl. in a close crowded corymb, large ; sep. spreading hori- 
zontally ; heads of fr. short obtuse globosely oval, sometimes 
inclining to oblong, rarely oblong; ach. quite smooth with a 
hooked beak. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 3 ; §. Ravines and thickets 
on wet rocks and banks. Apr.-July. — Root large, often in a. 
palmate with fleshy thick divisions, and in (3. tomentose. FI. 
bright y. large and handsome, 1-2-i- inches in diam. densely 
corymbose. Recept. slightly villose at the base.— Var. : 
a. major ; st. robust 2-4 ft. high; root-1, very large from 5-12 in. 
broad, scarcely divided with obtuse broad shallow lobes ; corymb 
very large and ample many-flowered ; fl. very large ; fruit-spikes 
short and oval . — It grandifolius Lowe Prim. (Ed. 1. 1830) 38 ! 
not Meyer; Walp. Repert. 1. 3G; Hook. J. ot Bot. 9. 70. R. 
creticus Prim. (Ed. 2. 1851) App. V. VI. ! not Linn. R. arcticus 
(misprint for creticus ) Buch Verz. 195. R. cortuscefolius (3. syl- 
vaticus WB. i. 8, 9 ? R. cortuscefolius (3. sylvaticus Seub. Fl. 
Az. 42. R. cortuscefolius Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4025 ! (hairs too 
