POLYANDUIA. POLYGYNIA. Ranunculus. 67? 
(A. oestivalis of With. Ed. 3. et seq.; not of Linn, (which is more properly 
a native of Italy,) proves to be only a starved variety of the above 
species. Curtis considered that the petals afforded no specific distinction, 
neither were the seasons discriminative; but rather considered these 
species to be one and the same, under different circumstances. E.) 
RANUN'CULUS.^ Cal . deciduous five, (or three-leaved:) 
Petals five, (rarely two, three, or eight), with a nectari¬ 
ferous scale or pore within the claw: Styles permanent: 
Seeds numerous, incrusted. 
(1) Leaves undivided . 
Rp fica'ria. Leaves heart-shaped, angular, smooth, on leaf-stalks: 
stem single-flowered: flowers with nine petals: calyx with three 
leaves. 
{Curt. JV. E. — E. Bot. 584. E .)—Ludw. 52 — FI. Dan. 499 —Curt.— 
Blackw. 51— Wale. — Kniph. 1— Fuchs. 867- — J. B. iii. 468— Lonic. i. 166. 
1— Dod. 49— Lob. Obs. 323. 1, and Ic. i. 593. 2— Ger. Em. 816 — Park . 
617. 3— Pet. 38. 1 —Ger. 669—Matth. 831 — Trag. 613. 
Boot composed of oblong egg or club-shaped tubers. Leaves rather shining, 
sometimes spotted. Calyx leaves three or four. Petals eight or nine; 
bright yellow, (with an enamelled gloss. E.) Small egg-shaped germi¬ 
nating bulbs are sometimes found in the bosom of the leaf-stalks. (Nec- 
| tariferous scale notched. Purt. Stem scarcely half a foot high, nearly 
upright, leafy, smooth. Flowers pedunculated, upright, solitary, (with 
age and exposure becoming white, the superficial enamel thus perishing. 
E.) 
Pilewort. Lesser Celandine. (Welsh : Llygad ebrill; Bronwys. E.) 
Ficaria verna. Huds. Meadows, pastures, and hedge-banks, common. 
P. April.f 
Or, perhaps, typical of his fatal rencontre with the wild boar, so feelingly deplored 
by his mistress 
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§’a Ku Qepetx (pspei iroTixupSiov tAxof.” 
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fig Trjvog reOvaxe, xcti avQea tixvt E.) 
* (Diminutive of rana, a frog; though probably not thus appropriated from several 
species being found in marshy places, (the original of Dioscoridi-s, R. Aslaliius , being an 
inhabitant of dry situations), but rather from the divisions of the leaves bearing an ima¬ 
ginary resemblance to the foot of that reptile. E.) 
+ The young leaves of Pilewort may be eaten in the spring along with other pot-herbs. 
Goats and sheep eat it. Cows and horses refuse it, Curculio dorsalis is found upon it. 
