RANUNCULUS ASIAT'ICUS. 
Variety, Cathcart. 
GARDEN RANUNCULUS. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. POLYCYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Levant. 
1 foot. 
J une. 
Perennial. 
in 1596. 
No, 80.5. 
Ranunculus is deduced from the Latin rana, but 
the connexion between the frog and the flower is 
by no means evident. See No. 271. 
The double Ranunculus has been so long a fa- 
vourite with florists, and some varieties of this beau- 
tiful plant have been fostered with such parental 
care, that they have really attained to old age, and 
are comparatively weak in habit and unproductive 
of flowers. To renovate this favourite flower by new 
varieties, has been a desideratum with both English 
and Dutch cultivators. 
The Messrs. Tyso and Son, of Wallingford, who 
raised the present plant, which they call Cath- 
cart, and to whose kindness we are indebted for it, 
rank amongst the first cultivators of the Ranunculus. 
They have raised many thousands of seedlings, from 
amongst which a hundred and eighty, of superior 
qualities, have been selected and named. These 
flower much more freely than the older ones ; and 
the mode of culture which they pu rue, they have 
liberally enabled us to lay before the public in the 
Auctarium, (section 194) to which we refer our 
readers. 
202 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 1, 27. 
