PLex.thal. 85. RAN'UNCULACEiE. 465. Ranun. 717 
Walls and waysides : annual ; June to August. 
Stem 18 in. high, branchy, many-flowered, upright or 
trailing; hairs spreading; sometimes bald; leaves 3-parted, 
hirsute, pale. 
intermedius. Leaves nearly bald. 
Ranunculus intermedius, Poiret Diet. 6, 116. 
Ranunculus pumilus, Thuill. Par. 1,277, not of Poiret. 
Damp shady places. 
y. parvulus. Stem dwarf, mostly 1 -flowered. 
Ranunculus parvulus, j Lin. Mant. 79. 
Ranunculus parviflorus, Gouan Fl.Monsp. 270, not of Linn. 
Dry stony places. 
b. Leiosperma. Flowers yelloiv ; leaves loled or many-cut ; 
root fibrous; cariopsides smooth. 
4. Ranunculus bulbosus . Bulbous crowfoot . 
Root-leaves petioled, 3-cut, slightly pinnately cut ; lobes 
8-cut, deeply toothed, the middle lobe slightly petioled; 
stem upright, bulbous at the neck; calyx turned back. 
Ranunculus bulbosus, Rail Syn. 247, 2; Ger. em. 953,6; Park. 329* 
Lin. S. P. 778. 
Ranunclus 1 set us, Salisbury Prod. 373. 
Ranunculus ftab.ellat.trs, Bivona Sicul. 68. 
Buttercups. Gold cups. Kingcups. King kop. Gold knops. 
Fields and meadows ; perennial ; May. 
Root bulbous, solid, proliferous above; stem l foot high; 
leaves more or less hirsute, segments 3-cut or lobed. 
/3. plenus. Flower double. 
Ranunculus m axioms Anglicus, Ger. em. 957, 1. 
St. Anthony’s turnep. Rape crowfoot. Yellow bachelor’s buttons. 
5. Ranunculus repens. Creeping crowfoot . 
Leaves pinnately 3-cut ; segments wedgeshape, 3-lobed, 
deeply toothed; stem with creeping prostrate runners from 
the crown, the flower-bearing stem nearly upright; calyx 
close; cariopsides with a straight beak. 
Ranunculus prafensis repens, Raii Syn. 247, 1; Park. 329. 
Ranunculus poilensis, efiamque hortensis, Ger. em. 951, 1. 
Ranunculs repens, Lin. S. P. 779. 
Ranunculus prostratus, Porr.Dict. 6, 113. 
Ranunculus infestus, Salisbury Prod. 373. 
Common crowfoot. Butter-flower. 
Damp fields; perennial; June to August. 
Stems prostrate, middle stems sometimes upright or 
ascending; leaves with the middle segment always petioled, 
