684 POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Ranunculus. 
be a seedling, with the old bulbs at the bottom. (This state of the plant 
having occasioned some perplexity to a correspondent of the Mag. Nat. 
Hist, is represented by a figure in that work. vol. i. 380. E.) Petals golden 
yellow. Woodw. ( Plant acrid. Leaves more or less hairy : lobes of the 
lower ones nearly egg-shaped; upper leaves in linear segments. E.) 
Nectary short, inversely heart-shaped ; in R. hirsutus , it is oblong egg- 
shaped. This circumstance alone is sufficient to distinguish the two 
species. 
(Var. 2. Flore plena. Flower double. About Leamington and Warwick. 
Perry. E.) 
Bulbous Crowfoot. ButterCup. Gold Cup. (Welsh: ChwysMair; 
Blodau yr ymenyn. E.) Meadows and pastures, (which are chiefly in¬ 
debted to this plant for that brilliant golden hue which must attract the 
admiration of every beholder during Spring. E.) P. May. 
B. re'pens. Calyx expanding: fruit-stalks Furrowed: suckers creep¬ 
ing : leaves compound, (upper ones entire. E.) 
Curt. 211— (E. Rot. 516. E.)— Blackw. 31. 1— FI. Dan. 795— Dod. 425— 
Lob . Obs. 379. 1, and Ic. i. 664. 2— Ger. Em. 951. 1— Pet. 38. 7 and 8— 
H. Ox. iv. 28. 18— Pet. 38. 8—Ger. 804. 1. 
The stem creeping and striking out roots from the joints, will always dis¬ 
tinguish this from R. bulbosus. Fruit-stalks with five furrows, and one 
or two flowers. Calyx hairy, deciduous, not reflexed. Blossom of a 
deeper yellow than R. acris. ( Petals notched. Flowering-stems erect, 
one to two feet high. E.) 
Creeping Crowfoot or Butter Cups. (Welsh : Crafange y fran 
ymlusgaidd. E.) Meadows, pastures, on rubbish under hedges, and in 
gardens, in moist situations. P. June—Aug. 
R. arven'sis. Seeds prickly: upper leaves doubly compound, strap- 
shaped : (stem erect, branched, many-flowered. E.) 
Curt. — E. Bot. 135— Kniph. 12— Wale. — FI. Dan. 219— Fuchs. 157— J. B. 
iii. 859. 1 —Dod. 427. 2— Lob. Obs. 380. 1, and Ic. i. 665. 2—Ger. Em. 
951. 3— Park. 328. A—II. Ox. iv. 29. 23— Pet. 38. 10—Ger. 805. 3. 
\Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, nearly smooth, upright, much 
branched, cylindrical. Petals inversely egg-shaped, narrow. E.) Whole 
plant pale, (but slightly hairy. E.) Segments of the upper leafits, strap¬ 
shaped. Flowers small, pale yellow. Pericarps (compressed, large. E.) 
more obviously muricate than those of R. parviflorus. Seeds and Jlowers 
on the same plants, at the same time. 
Corn Crowfoot. Common in corn-fields. A. June.* 
* It has lately been said that cows, horses, and sheep, in Italy eat it greedily, though it 
is so acrid as to poison the latter. Three ounces of the juice killed a dog in four minutes. 
Its growing chiefly, if not solely, in corn-fields, where cattle are excluded, may possibly be 
the reason why we have not heard of mischief being done by it in this country. (Though 
several British species of Ranunculus are disposed to become double, and are sometimes 
observed so in a wild state; the more showy kinds, which display an endless variety of the 
richest colours in our gardens, are of Turkish and Persian origin. E.) 
