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449 RANUNCULACEAE. | Ranunculus. 
13. R. tenuicaulis Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1885) 235.— 
Very slender, erect, sparingly pilose or nearly glabrous, 4-18in. high. 
Rootstock slender, with numerous fleshy rootlets. Leaves all radical, on 
slender petioles 2-6in. long; blade $-ljin. diam., about reniform in 
outline, cut to the base into 3, rarely 5, broadly cuneate divisions, which 
are deeply and irregularly 2-3-lobed ; lobes narrow, often again toothed. 
Scape very slender, grooved, 1-flowered, usually with 2-3 simple or 
variously cut or lobed bracts about the middle. Petals 5, linear, acute. 
Achenes 5-20, loosely packed, spreading, shortly stipitate, fusiform, gradually 
narrowed into a long spirally recurved style—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
14; Oheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 14. 
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