June 2, 1892. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
417 
RANUNCULUS CORTUS^FOLIUS. 
In a recent issue of “Garden and Forest” some interesting notes 
on this fine Ranunculus (fig, 72), from the pen of Mr. W. Watson, were 
Hylton, of Merstham House, in Surrey, where I am informed it grows’ 
well in the open air with a little protection in winter. It is a rare plant 
in English gardens, notwithstanding its introduction forty years back 
and the unquestionable beauty of its flowers. It has a large fleshy, 
Fig. 72.—ranunculus CORTUSAIFOLIUS. 
published. He wrote :—A flowering specimen of this plant, which was 
described by Sir W. Hooker forty years ago as “unquestionably the 
handsomest of all the Buttercups,” was a special attraction at the last 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society. It was sent by Lord 
tuberous rootstock, an erect stem as thick as a man’s little finger, and 
sometimes 4 feet high, freely branched above. The leaves are a foot 
across, slightly lobed and toothed, hairy, as also are the stems. The 
flowers, which are in large, broad, crowded corymbs, are erect, 2 inches 
