Ranunculus sceleratus. Celer y-leav’d Crowfoot. 
RANUNCULUS Lin. Gen. PI. Polyandria Polygynia. 
Rail Syn. Gen. 15. Herb.® semine nudo polysperm®. 
RANUNCULUS /celeratus foliis inferioribus palmatis ; fummis digitatis, frudibus oblongis. Lin. Syjl. 
Vcgetab. p. 429- Sp. Pl. p. 776. FI. Suecic. p. 194. n. 499. 
RANUNCULUS foliis levibus, fcmitrilobatis, rotunde ferratis, frudu ovato. Haller hiji.p. 74. n, 1175. 
RANUNCULUS /celeratus. Scopoli FI. Carniol. n. 688. 
RANUNCULUS paluftris apii folio Ise vis. Bauhin. pin. 180. 
RANUNCULUS paluftris rotundifolius. Ger. emac. 962. 
RANUNCULUS paluftris fardonia lsevis. Parkinfim. 1215. Raii Syn. p. 249. Round-leaved Water 
Crowfoot. 
Hudfon FI. Angi. p. 212. 
Oeder Dan. icon. 570. 
Lightfoot FI. Scot. p. 291. Celery- leaved Crowfoot. 
RADIX annua, fibrofiflima, fibris albidis. 
CAULIS ere&us, pedalis ad bipedalem, infigniter craf- 
fus, fiftulofus, larvis, ramofus. 
FOLIA radicalia longe petiolata, nitida, fubcarnofa, 
trilobata, lobis trifidis rotunde crenatis ; cau- 
lina fubfeflilia, palmata; fuprema elliptica. 
FLORES exigui, flavi. ; 
CALYX: Per iANTHiuM'pentaphyllum, foliolis ovatis, 
concavis, flavefcentibus, deciduis, 1. 
COROLLA : Petala quinque, parva, ovata, flava, 
nitida, magnitudine calycis, decidua, fig. 2. : : 
NECTARIUM : Fovea marginata, ad bafin cujufvis ■ 
petali, fig. 3. ; ; 
STAMINA: Filamenta plurima, raro ultra viginti, 
bafi tenuiora : Anther® flavas, compreflse, j | 
biloculares, fig. 5. • 
PISTILLUM: Germina numerofa, in capitulum ob- ^ 
longum, colleda : Stigmata minima, ger- i 
minibus infidentia. | 
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SEMINA plurima, comprefia, ovato- acuminata, par- 1 
va, receptaculo oblongo affixa, fig. 6. $ 
ROOT annual, exceedingly fibrous, the fibres whitifh. 
STALK upright, from one to two feet high, remark- 
ably thick, hollow, fmooth, and branched. 
LEAVES : radical leaves fitting on long foot-ftalks, 
fhining, fomewhat flefhy, divided into three 
lobes ; the lobes trifid, and roundly notched ; 
ftalk- leaves nearly feflile, and palmated ; up- 
permoft leaves elliptical. 
FLOWERS fmall and yellow. 
CALYX : a Perianthium of five leaves, the leaves 
oval, hollow, yellowifh and deciduous, fig. 1 . 
COROLLA: five fmall, oval, yellow, fhining Petals, 
the fize of the Calyx, and deciduous, fig. 2. 
NECTARY, a depreflion or pore at the bafe of each 
Petal, furrounded by a prominent margin, 
fg- 3 ■ 
STAMINA: Filaments numerous, feldom more 
than tw r enty, flender at bottom : Anther® 
yellow, flat and bilocular, fig. 5. 
PISTILLUM : Germina numerous, colle&ed toge- 
ther into an oblong head : Stigmata very 
minute, fitting on the Germina. 
SEEDS numerous, flat, oval and pointed, fmall, affix- 
ed to an oblong receptacle, fig. 6. 
THIS fpecies is diftinguifhed from the other Crowfoots, by its growing in or near the water, by its broad 
fhining bottom leaves, thick ftalk, fmall yellow flowers, and fmooth oblong feed-heads. 
The leaves and flowers poflefs a confiderable degree of acrimony, fo as even to blifter the fkin, if applied to 
it : chewed in the mouth, they inflame and chop the tongue : nor have their effe&s been lefs violent when taken 
into the ftomach. It is fufpe&ed to have proved poifonous to fheep. Haller hifi. helv. p. 75. 
It begins to flower in May and June, and continues in bloffom all the Summer, by the fides of ponds and ditches. 
It is eaten by goats, but refufed by kine, fheep, and horfes, Linn. Anuen. Acad. 
