DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
RANUNCULACEiE. (Crowfoot Family.) 
Anemone Hepatica. L. Liverwort. (Hepatica triloba Chaix). 
and var. acutiloba, DC. Involucre 3-leaved, sepals petal- 
like, blue ; flowers single on hairy scapes. Leaves radical 
with three ovate, obtuse, or in var. acutiloba, pointed lobes. 
Mountains of East Tennessee, and var. acutiloba hills of 
Middle Tennessee. Abundant; fl. March; the leaves col- 
lected April following. 
Ranunculus Flamula, L. Smaller Spearwort. Herbaceous 
perennial, 1-2° high, with reclining or ascending stem, rooting 
below, leaves lanceolate or linear, or the lowest ovate-oblong 
to lanceolate, entire or nearly so, mostly petioled 1-2' long ; 
petals 5-7, much longer than the 5-sepaled calyx, bright yel- 
low, carpels small, flattish but turgid, mucronate with a 
short abrupt point. Growing in wet places, at the margin of 
ponds. Fl. June. Collect the herb. 
Ranunculus sceleratus, L. Cursed Crowfoot. Annual, glab- 
rous; root- leaves 3-lobed, rounded; lower stem-leaves 3- 
parted, the lobes obtusely cut and toothed, the uppermost 
almost sessile, with the lobes oblong-linear and nearly entire ; 
carpels barely mucronate, very numerous, in oblong or 
cylindrical heads ; petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. Stem 
thick and hollow, 1° high ; juice acrid and blistering, leaves 
thickish ; flowers small, pale yellow. Fl. June-August. 
In ditches and ponds. Collect the herb. 
Ranunculus repens, L. Creeping Crowfoot. Low, hairy or 
nearly glabrous, stem ascending, some procumbent, forming 
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