720 465. Ramin. 85. RANUNCULACE^E. Pl.ex.tkaL 
Ranunculus flammeus major, Raii Syn. 250, 8; Ger.em. 961, 1. 
Ranunculus palustris flammeus major, Park. 1215. 
Ranunculus Lingua, Lin. S. P. 773. 
Ranunculus longifolius, Lamarck FI. Fr. 3, 189. 
Great spear wort. 
Ditches* perennial; July. 
Stem, leaves , and flowers, larger than in R. flammeus; 
leaves not cut or serrulated ; bald, or slightly hairy ; hairs 
pressed to the leaves. 
d. Flowers yellow ; leaves not in the least cut ; roots handled* 
12. Ranunculus gramineus. Grassy crowfoot. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear, not cut; stem upright, quite 
bald, fibrous at the collar; nectariferous- scale tubular ; root 
in bundles. 
Ranunculus gramineus Lobelii, Ger. em. 954, 9, is double. 
Ranunculus gramineus, Lin. S. P. 773. 
Ranunculus graminifolius, Salisb. Pi od. 372. 
Fields ; perennial ; May and June. 
Root tuberous, cylindrical, radiatedly fibrous at top; 
leaves very smooth, glaucous, rather stiff*; sepales smooth, 
spread ; flowers often double. 
e. Flowers white ; leaves lolate , multifid , or toothed ; ca - 
riop sides smooth. 
13. Ranunculus alpestris. Alp crowfoot . 
Leaves orbicular, 3-lobed ; lobes cut, crenate, rather 
blunt; stem mostly 1 -flowered ; calyx bald; petals 5 , re- 
verse heartshape, or 3-lobed. 
Ranunculus montanus flore minore, Ger. em. 964,3. 
Ranunculus alpestris, Lin. S . P. 772. 
Alps ; perennial ; May and June. 
Leaves smooth, bald ; root-leaves orbicular, round, 3-cut 
or parted; stem-leaves linear, or cut into 3 linear lobes ; 
scape 4 inches high, 1. flowered; petals entirely white. 
X. 466. BATRACHIUM. De Cand. Water-crowfoot . 
Calyx 5-sepaled; sepales deciduous, not produced at 
bottom; petals 5 or 10, white, base yellow, with a nectari- 
ferous hole: stamens and ovaries many; cariopsides ovate, 
compressed, not armed, transversely wrinkled. — Plants 
aquatic ; roots fibrous ; leaves quite bald ; those out of water 
toothed, slightly lobed ; leaves in water capillary, many- 
cut; peduncles 1 -flowered, opposite to the leaves. 
