3g4 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNiA. Ranunculus. 
multifloro, peduuculis soleatis, calycibus retroflexis 
acuminatis, seminibus tuberculatis, radice fibrosa. — ■ 
fFilld. pZ. 2. p, 1324. 
R. hirsutus. Curt. loud. 2. t. 40. EngL hot. 1504. 
In old meadows and low wet fields : New England to 
Pensylvania. 7/ . June — Oct. v. v. Resembles the 
foregoing one. 
repens. 14. R. hirsutos j foliis compositis : ternatis trifidis incisis, 
sarmentis repentibus, pedunculis sulcatis, calycibus 
patulis. Willd. sp. pl. 2. p. 1325. 
Icon. FI. dan, 705. Engl. hot. 516. 
In shady wet woods, particularly in the mountains: Pen- 
sylvania to Virginia. %. July, Aug. v.v, Flowers 
deep yellow. 
acris. 15. R. adpresso-pilosus j foliis tripartito-raultifidis, summis 
linearibus, pedunculis teretibus, calycibus patulis. — 
Willd. sp. pl. 2, p. 1326. 
Icon, Engl. hot, 652. 
In wet meadows, in the western parts of New York 
and Canada. 1/ . May — Aug. v. v. 
lanuginosus. 1 6. R. hirsutus ; foliis trifidis lobatis dentatis holosericeis, 
pedunculis elongatis teretibus, calycibus patulis. — 
Willd. sp. pl. 2. p. 132/. 
Icon, FL dan.Sgy. 
In old fields and meadows : Pensylvania to Carolina. 1/ . 
June — ^Oct. V. v. 
tornentosus. 1 7. R. villosissimus, humilis 5 caule repente 1-2-floro, foliis 
tomentosis trilobatis, calycibus hispidis subrefiexis. — 
Lam. encycl. 6. p. I2y. 
In Carolina. Bosc. }/. -f. Flowers yellowish- white. 
marylandiciis. 18. R. pubescens; caule simplici subnudo, foliis radicalibus 
ternatis, foliolis trilobatis, lobis acutis incisis, calycibus 
reflexis. Lain, encycl. 6. p. 126. 
In shady woods : Pensylvania to Virginia. 7/. May — 
July, v.v. Flowers pale yellow. 
reairvatus. 1 9. R. pubescens ,* foliis trilobis, lobis basi cuneiformibus, 
apice incisis acutis, caule multifloro, corolla calyci- 
busque recurvis, petalis linearibus. — Lam. encycl. 6. 
p. 125. 
In shady woods : New York to Carolina. 7/. June— 
Aug. V. V. Flowers small ; petals almost white. 
septentriona- 20. R. glabriusculus ; foliis membranaceis glabris ternatis, 
lis. foliolis subtrilobatis incisis acutis, caule petiolisque 
