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I. RANUNCULACE^E. 
[. Ranunculus . 
Bab. — /3. Flowers small, petals caducous, carpels somewhat 
laterally apiculate, stigma oblong, floating leaves usually absent. 
a. trichophyllus, carpels compressed. R. trichophyllus Chaix . — 
b. Drouetii, carpels inflated at the end. R. Drouetii Bab. 
Lakes, ponds, and ditches. If. FI. Spring and Summer This 
chiefly differs from the next by the shorter style and larger stigma. 
We have arranged the above varieties so as to exhibit what Mr. Bab- 
ington describes as seven distinct species : in doing so, we have 
taken the characters almost solely from the flowers ; these, when a 
species is distinct, or a variety permanent, being more to be relied on 
than those from the foliage. 
4. R. tripartitus DC. (three-lobed Water C .) ; stem floating, 
submersed leaves wanting or divided into capillary segments 
spreading in all directions, floating ones tripartite, their lobes 
triangular-obovate 2 — 4-cleft, stipule-like appendages of upper 
leaves almost free from the petiole, petals oblong (small) as 
short as or twice as long as the calyx, receptacle of fruit hispid, 
style elongated subulate, stigma small, carpels irregularly obovate 
much inflated. E. B. S. t. 2946. 
Shallow ditches near Claremont House, Surrey ; H. Watson. 
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire ; C. C. Babington. If, or 0 ? 
(Borrer.') 6, 7. — Stamens few, 5 — 10. Submersed leaves always absent 
in English specimens. In deference to Mr. Borrer’s opinion we 
have kept this and the last two species distinct : the present one 
has small flowers, and forms the transition to the two next, 
from which, along with all the preceding, it differs by the hispid 
receptacle : De Candolle himself was very doubtful as to its claims 
to rank as a species. 
5. R. ccenusus Guss. (Mud C .) ; stem creeping or floating, 
leaves roundish kidney-shaped with 3 — 5 notched lobes, petals 
oblong about twice longer than the calyx, receptacle of fruit 
glabrous. R. Lenormandi F. IV. Schultz : E. B. S. t. 2930. 
Shallow water in various places in England ; Sussex, Plymouth, 
Surrey, Needham Forest in Staffordshire, Charnwood Forest in 
Leicestershire, and head of Coniston Water in Lancashire. Dum- 
fries-shire and about Glasgow in Scotland. If. 6 — 8 The style is 
said to be terminal in this species, lateral in the next : this is some- 
times true, but is certainly not constant ; and we cannot discover any 
other good grounds for keeping it distinct. 
6. R. hederdceus L. (Ivy C.) ; stem submersed and throwing 
out roots or creeping, leaves roundish kidney-shaped with 3 — 5 
rounded entire lobes, petals (small) narrow scarcely longer than 
the calyx or sometimes twice as long, stamens 5 — 12, receptacle 
of fruit glabrous. E. B. t. 2003. 
Wet places, shallow pools of water, and where water has stood. If. 
FI. throughout the summer. — With regard to this and the five pre- 
ceding species, M. Scringe, to whom most of them were well known, 
