POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNTA. Ranunculus. 683 
R. hirsu'tus. (Root fibrous : stem hairy, many-flowered: calyx glan¬ 
dular, hairy, accuminate, at length reflexed: seeds tuberculated. 
E.) 
Curt .— (E. Bot. 1504. E.)—</. B. iii. 417. 3. 
Stem more branched and spreading; hairs stiffer and longer than in R. bul- 
bosus. Leaf-stalks of the lower leaves hollow, and if cut asunder, the 
nerves appear projecting into the inside of the tube. Leaves , lobes three 
more distinct, the middle and outermost rounder and less deeply divided 
. at the edges, the side ones with a portion as if cut out from the inner 
edge; frequently with irregular pale or whitish spots, and the upper sur¬ 
face beset with projecting points, from which the hairs arise. Flowers 
more numerous, smaller, and seeds smaller than in R. bulbosus. Curt. 
Root , fibres long, thick, white. Root-leaves either entire or three-lobed, 
the middle leafit on a leaf-stalk. Flowers pale yellow. Woodw. (Whole 
plant covered with spreading hairs; varying greatly in luxuriance ; rather 
pale. E.) 
(Pale Hairy Crowfoot. E.) Moist clayey places, where water has re¬ 
mained stagnant during the winter. Salt marshes near Gravesend. Ray. 
Various places about London ; side of the road between Croydon and 
Mitcham; and plentifully by the sea side on the gravelly banks about 
Southampton. Curtis. Road sides, rubbish, &c.; Cambridgeshire. Rel- 
han. Amongst corn in a clayey soil, and on new made banks of salt 
marshes, Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. (Crosby, near Liverpool. Dr. 
Bostock. St. Anthon’s Ballast Hills, Durham. Mr. Winch. Pentland 
Hills. Mr Arnott. Grev. Edin. Magilligan, Derry. Mr. Murphy. E.) 
A. June—Sept. 
(R. parvulus of Linn, and FI. Brit, has been fully ascertained by Mr. D. 
Turner and Mr. Forster to be only a starved procumbent plant of R. 
hirsutus. E.) 
R. bulbo'sus. Root bulbous: calyx reflexed: fruit-stalks furrowed: 
stem upright, many-flowered: leaves compound: (seeds smooth. 
E.) 
(E. Bot. 515. E.)— Mill. III. — Curt. — Kniph. 7— Wale. — Fl. Dan. 551— 
Dod. 431. 1— Lob. Obs. 380. 3, and Ic. I 067. 1 ~—Ger. 953. 6—Park. 329. 
5— Pet. 38. 4 —Fuchs. 160— J. B. iii. 417. 4 —Ger. 806. Q—Matth. 614. 
Root globular, fibrous at the base. Stems a foot high, upright, bare at the 
base, towards the top leafy, and branched. Lyons. Calyx at the bottom 
thin and semi-transparent. Stem never throwing out suckers like R. 
repens. Curt. Upper leaves, divisions strap-shaped. Bulb formed above 
the bulb of the preceding year. When it comes into flower, the old one, 
in a dry soil, may be found in a state of decay under the new one, and 
surrounded by the fibres, but without the least appearance of suckers 
proceeding from either of them. In a turf containing six plants, the 
roots were all distinct, excepting one, which appeared from its size, to 
phose from the flat to the capillary leaves taking place in the fresh shoots before they gain 
the surface of the water, after which they assume the form consonant to the natural habit 
of the plant, as in Horehound, &c. E.) So far is Water Crowfoot from possessing 
the deleterious qualities usually attributed to it, that Dr. Pulteney, in the fifth vol. of 
Linn, Tr. has given ample testimony to its capability of almost alone supporting horses, 
cows, and pigs, in good condition, and the animals eat it with avidity. 
