Hanunculacece.] 
THE COLONY OE VICTORIA. 
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sphere, characterized by white flowers, whilst all the Ranunci known as peculiar to New Zealand, Tasmania, 
and the antarctic regions, are, without exception, described as yellow-flowered. 
Ranunculus anemoneus, F. 31. in Transact. Phil, Soc. Viet. i. 97.—Anemone Crowfoot. 
Hirsute or glabrous; root perennial; its fibres fasciculate or crowded on a short creeping rhizome; 
stems simple, erect, 1—3-flowered^ leafless to above the middle, scaly at the base, and surrounded by the 
bristly remains of leaf-stalks; radical leaves on long - petioles, nearly orbicular, almost to the base divided 
into 3-5 lobes, these deeply three- or five-cleft, overlapping each other, their lobes variously cut into generally 
narrow-lanceolate acute lobules; stem-leaves only at the base of the flower-stalks, large, in outline cordate- 
orbicular, dissected, sessile, clasping ; peduncle bractless, or more frequently with a dissected bract; sepals 
5-7, ovate, oppressed, slightly villous; petals large, white, generally numerous, twice or three times as long 
as the calyx, almost constantly narrow oblong-cuneate; nectar-pit margined; receptacle ovate, slightly downy; 
carpels numerous, in a globose-ovate head, turgid, smooth; their style hooked at the extremity. 
On spi'ings near the summits of the Munyang Mountains. 
One of the most ornamental and rare plants of the Australian Alps, varying in height from h to 2 feet, 
resembling, chiefly on account of its involucre-like stem-leaf, greatly an Anemone. Fibres of root, often 
many inches long. The radical leaves l|-4 inches long and broad, provided with a petiole, which is often 
longer than half a foot. Peduncles streaked, 2-6 inches long, rather thick. Diameter of corolla between 
1 and 2 inches. Anthers scarcely one line long-, oblong. Fruit-head ovate or ovate-globose, about half an 
inch long. Carpels nearly one line long, ovate, with a conspicuous style. 
It flowers late in the spring or in the beginning of the summer. 
It differs from R. nivicola (Hook. Icon. 571) already in its white petals, which are obliquely pointed 
and. not emargined at the apex. 
Pl. I. 1 and 2, petals; 8, anthers; 4 ; receptacle; 5, carpel; 6, longitudinal, and 7, transverse section 
of carpel: all except 1 magnified. 
Ranunculus lappaceus 9 Smithy in Reed Cycl. n. 61; R. pimpinellifolius, Hook. Journ. oj Bot. 
i. 243; Icon. Plant, cclx.; R. nanus, Hook. Journ. ofi Bot. i. 243; R. cuneatus, Hook. I, c.; R. colonorum, 
Schlecht. Linncea, xx. 627; R. multiscapus, J. Hook. FI. ofi JS T . Zeal. i. p. 9, t. 5; R. scapigerus, J. Hook. 
FI. Tasm. tab. ii. a. 
Perennial, erect, rarely diffused or procumbent, downy with spreading or appressed hair; radical 
leaves long-stalked, rarely quite entire lanceolate and ovate, generally divided into 3-5 lobes, which are 
mostly ovate - or rhdfliboid-cuneate 9 either all pinnately distinct or, particularly the upper ones, confluent, with 
varied broad or more rarely narrow lobules and teeth; stem-leaves few, or one or wanting, either undivided 
lanceolate and linear or cleft in several lobes; stems with one or several flowers; its lower part leafless; 
peduncles long, furrowed; sepals spreading or appressed, one-third or half as long as the corollas; petals 
generally 5, rarely 6-10, yellow, obcordate- or cuneate- or orbicular-obovate, with a nectar-pit at or above 
the base; receptacle ovate or conical, hairy; carpels round- or broad-ovate, compressed, rarely very turgid, 
smooth , with a recurved seldom straight style. 
In grassy places, from the low land to the limits of eternal snow, here and there also in boggy and 
swampy localities. Occurs throughout almost the whole of extratropical Australia and in New Zealand. 
An herb, varying from 2 inches to 2 feet in height. Copiousness, length, and direction of its indu- 
ment variable, which generally, however, is soft and spreading. Root fasciculate-fibrous. The bristle-like 
partial remains of the radical leaf-stalks often surrounding the recent ones. Leaves |—3 inches long and 
broad, rarely glabrous, sometimes nearly heart-shaped and trilobed to about the middle, in alpine varieties 
quite undivided and covered with more rigid appressed hair. Upper stem leaves to be regarded as bracts. 
Sepals often hairy, not reflexed. Petals 2-6 lines long, occasionally purple outside. Anthers oblong. 
Fruit-head globose. Carpels f-lj line long, with a more or less elongated style. 
