POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Ranunculus. 679 
y gwaewlleiaf. Gaelic: An lus-mor; Ghlaisleun, E.) Bogs, boggy 
meadows and sides of rivulets. P. June—Sept.* 
( R. reptans of Linn. Lightf. With, and other authors, even in the time of 
Lightfoot, was suspected to be only a variety of this species, and in that 
opinion more recent Botanists generally concur. It has been frequently 
observed in a series of gradations between the two; it is thus described 
by Mr. Woodward. Leaves one to four at each joint, upright. Stem 
slender, creeping. Flowers solitary, terminal, or at the joints; small, 
yellow. ( Leaves very narrow, approaching to strap-shaped; whole 
plant diminutive, three to five inches in length; radicating from the joints. 
E-) 
Dicks. IT. S. — Kniph. 9 — Lightf. 1 3 frontispiece — FI. Dan. 108— Amman. 13. 
1— FI. Lapp. 3. 5. 
Narrow-leaved Crowfoot. R.Jlammula d. Hal. Scop. Sm. E.) Sides 
of lakes, (not unfrequent in the north of England. E.) West end of 
Loch Laver. Stony margin of Conniston Water, Lancashire. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. In a field between an old intrenchment and the high road near 
Manchester race ground. Mr. Caley. (On the margins of Loch Tay. 
Mr. Brown. By Loch Leven, and Derwent-water. Mr. Winch. Margins 
of lakes in Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) P. July—Aug. 
R. lin'gua. Leaves elongate lanceolate, somewhat serrated, nearly 
sessile: stem upright, (many flowered. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 171. E.)— E. Bot. 100— FI. Dan. 755—Ger. 814. 1— 
Ger. Em. 961. L—Park. 121 5. 1 —H. Ox. iv. 29. 33 —Pet. 39. 5 — J. B. iii. 
865. 
A much larger plant than R. flammula. Leaves in length equal to many 
times their breadth, ending in a long taper point, but in R.Jlammula they 
are in length only three or four times their breadth, and do not end in a 
long point. Blossom large, deep yellow. {Stem three or four feet high. 
Calyx hairy. Plant usually silky with appressed hairs; but the degree 
of hairiness seems to vary, and sometimes the leaves are entire. E.) 
Great Spearwort, or Crowfoot. (Welsh : Blaen y gwaew mwyaf E.) 
Wet pastures and sides of lakes. Bogs on Iver Heath, near Uxbridge. 
Between Rotherhithe and Deptford. Bogs on Malvern Chase, Worces¬ 
tershire. Mr. Ballard. Kineson Pool, near Stafford Dr. Stokes. Ditches 
about Restennet, Angus-shire. Mr. Brown. Sides of Ancot Pool, Salop. 
Mr. Aikin. (Crosby Marsh, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. In ditches 
at Preswick Carr, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. In a bog in the parish 
of Llangoed, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh. 
Parsons, in Lightf. E.) P. June—July. 
R. gramtn'eus. Leaves spear-strap-shaped, (many-ribbed, sessile: E.) 
stem upright, very smooth, few-flowered: root tuberous. 
* It is very acrid. Applied externally it inflames and blisters the skin, (as regularly 
practised in the Highlands and Islands of Jura, where the bruised leaves are applied in a 
limpet shell. E.) Horses eat it. Cows, sheep, goats, and s\yine refuse it. Its acrimony 
rises in distillation. Some years ago a man travelled through several parts of England admi¬ 
nistering emetics, which, like white vitriol, operated the instant they were swallowed. 
The distilled water of this plant was his medicine : and, from the experience I have had of 
it, I feel myself authorised to assert, that in the case of poison being swallowed, or other 
circumstances occurring, in which it is desirable to produce instantaneous vomiting, 
it is preferable to any other medicine yet known, and does not excite those painful con¬ 
tractions in the upper part of the stomach which white vitriol sometimes does, thereby 
defeating the intention for which it was given. 
