R A N U NC U L A C E A'. . 
Annual or perennial herbaceous plants ; possessed of acrid 
properties, so as to he rubefacient when applied externally, and 
in some degree poisonous when exhibited internally. Of the 
140 species comprehended in the genus, the greater proportion 
are natives of Northern latitudes, and very few are to be found 
between the tropics. — Name, from Rana a frog , from the plants 
growing in moist situations, where frogs usually abound. 
1. Ranunculus repens. Creeping Crowfoot. 
Calyx spreading, flower stalks furrowed, scyons 
creeping, leaves with three petiolulate leaflets which 
are 3-lobed, or 3-partite and cut Hooker. 
Eng. JBot. t. 516 — Smith, Eng. FI. III. 51 Hooher FI. 
Scot. I. 175. — De Cand. Syst.l. 285. 
HA B. Common in the neighbourhood of St Catherine’s Peak, 
St Andrew’s. 
FL. June — August. 
r l his is evidently an introduced plant which has become na- 
turalized from the garden of the late Mr Matthew Wallen at 
Cold-spring, and is now very plentiful in the above locality. 
According to the authorities quoted by De Candolle, it is to be 
found in every part of Europe, in several districts of North 
America, in Madeira, and we can now add Jamaica. 
2. Ranunculus parviflorus. Small Flowered Crow- 
foot. 
Leaves hairy 3-or sub-5-lobed with the lobes in- 
ciso-dentate, stem spreading decumbent hairy, pedun- 
cles opposite the leaves, calyx as long as the petals, 
pericarps granulato-tuberculose. 
Engl. Eot. t. 120. — Engl. FI. III. 53. — Ilooher, Brit. FI. 
267. — De Cand. Sgsl. I. 300. 
HAB. Portland Gap. St Catherine’s Peak. Pastures at 
Salt- Hill. 
FL. April, May. 
The radical leaves are, as in the specific character : those of 
the stem, and those opposite to the flowerstalks, are also 3 — 5 
lobed; but the lobes are sub-entire; petioles of the radical 
leaves striated, hairy, membranaceous and expanded at the base. 
Peduncles compressed, striated, hairy, fiowered. Sepals ob- 
long, hairy, yellowish, with a green mid-nerve. Petals length 
of the sepals, oblong, 1 or 2 usually wanting. Pericarps com- 
pressed, nearly orbicular, beaked with the remains of the in- 
curved style ; under the microscope pellucido-granulated. 
It is difficult to imagine how this species could have come to 
establish itself in the above situations. It is a native of the 
