RANUNCULUS 
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Locally rather abundant on light soils, especially on fixed dunes, in Jersey: it should be looked 
for elsewhere in the Channel Isles and in the south of Rngland. 
Sweden and Finland (cf. Rouy et Foucaud op. cit. 106), ? Denmark, h ranee, southern Europe; 
Algeria. 
II. RANUNCULUS SARDOUS. Hairy Crowfoot. Plate 140 
R. rectus foliis pallidioribus hirsutus Ray Cat. Cantab. App. i, 8 (1663); Syn. ed. 3, 247 ( 1 724). 
Ranunculus sardoiis Crantz Stirp. Austr. fasc. 2, 84 (1763); ed- 2, 1 1 1 (1769); N. E. Brown in Eng. 
Bot. ed. 3, suppl, 16 (1892); Rouy et Foucaud FI. France i, 107 (1893); R. bulbosus var. /3 Hudson FI. Angl. 21 1 
(1762); R. hirsutus Curtis FI. Lond. i, 108 (ca. 1776); 
R. philonotis Ehrhart Beitr. ii, 145 (1788)!. 
leones : — FI. Dan. t. 1459, as P- philonotis. 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 306, 306 bis, 306 quater, as 
R. sardoiis-, Ehrhart, 116, as R. philonotis'. Fries, vii, 
26, as R. philonotis-, Porta et Rigo {I tin. I I tali) ; 
Reichenbach, 372, as R. hirsutus-, 2586, as R. hirsutus 
var. verrucosus', Todaro 13 77 > as P. philonotis. 
Annual. Shoot erect, 2 — 5 dm. high, 
branched, very variable in hairyness. Ground- 
leaves with very long petioles (3 — 4 times as 
long as the laminae) ; laminae ternate ; pinnae 
variously lobed, terminal one stalked. Stem- 
leaves very variable, lobes broad or narrow. 
Pedicel grooved. Receptacles hairy, elongate, 
about 6 mm. long and 2—3 broad, rather hairy. 
Flowers about 1-5 to 2-5 cm. in diameter; June 
to September. Sepals reflexed. Petals yellow. 
Head of achenes subglobose. Achenes usually 
more or less tuberculate, especially near the 
margin ; beak short, nearly straight. 
(a) R. sardoiis var. hirsutus Rouy et Foucaud 
FI. France i, 107 (1893) ; R. hirsutus Curtis FI. Lond. 
i, 108 (ca. 1776) sens. str. ; Smith FI. Brit. 592 
(1800)!; Syme Eng. Bot. i, 43 (1863). 
leones : — Curtis FI. Lond. i, t. 108, as R. hir- 
sutus ; Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1504, as R. hirsutus ; 
Reichenbach Icon, iii, t. 23 ( Ranunc. ), fig. 4 ^ I l> as 
R. hirsutus. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 14.0. (a) Whole plant. 
(b) Petal. (r) Thalamus, (d) Head of achenes. 
(e) Achenes (one enlarged). Jersey (E. W. H.). 
Habit of R. bulbosus. Shoot very hairy, 
especially above. Flowers large, about 2-5 cm. 
in diameter. 
(b) R. sardoiis var. parvulus Rouy et Foucaud FI. France i, 108 (1893); R. parvulus L. Mant. PI. 79 
( j 767) ! ; Smith FI. Brit. 593 (1800); R. hirsutus var. parvulus Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. PL ii, 717 (1821). 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 14.0. (/) Ground leaves. ( g ) Part of stem, (h) Upper part of plant. Hunting- 
donshire (E. W. H.). 
Shoot less hairy, especially above, than in var. hirsutus. Flowers smaller, about 15 cm. in 
diameter. 
We are unable to give any detailed account of the British distribution of these varieties of R. sardoiis. We can only 
state that we have met with var. hirsutus in damp, submaritime pasture and meadows in Hampshire, Norfolk, etc., and var. 
parvulus in open parts of oak-woods on clay in Huntingdonshire. 
Local, on damp and alluvial soils, usually in permanent pasture and meadows near the sea, 
rarer inland, as in damp oak-woods; northwards to Perthshire; not known in Ireland. 
Europe (excl. Norway); Asia Minor; northwestern Africa to the Azores. 
