2966.
RANUNCULUS Baudotii.
Baudot's Water-Crowfoot.
POL YAN D R IA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx of 5, rarely 3 leaves. Petals 5
or more, with a nectariferous pore at the base.
Pericarps without awns.
Spec. Char. Stem floating. Submersed leaves closely
trifurcate, divided into rather rigid capillary segments,
which do not collapse and spread in all
directions ; floating leaves tripartite; segments
wedge-shaped, 3-4-lobed. Petals obovate-cune-
ate, 7-veined, not contiguous, persistent. Stamens
not exceeding the pistils. Stigma tongueshaped.
Carpels ^-obovate, inflated at the end.
Receptacle thick, long-conic. Peduncles thick,
narrowed at the top, long.
Syn. R. Baudotii. Godr. in Mém. de Nancy, 1839.
21. ƒ. 4 ; FI. Lorr. ed. 2. 14. Gren. 8f Godr. FI.
de Fr. v. 1. 21. Koch, Syn. FI. Germ. ed. 2. 434..
Brebis. FI. Norm. ed. 3, 6. Bor. FI. du Centre
de la Fr. ed. 3. 10. Lloyd, FI. de 1'Ouest de la
Fr.7. Bab. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. v. 16. 395 ;
Man. Br. Bot. ed. 5. 7. Syme, E. Bot. ed. 3. pi. xxii.
Batrachium Baudotii. Van den Bosch, Prod. FI.
Batav. 7.
S t e m floating, very bluntly angular. Submersed leaves
pale green, two or three times trifurcate, in rather a loose
manner, afterwards bifurcate, nearly or quite sessile; divisions
nearly equal, divaricate at the first fork; segments filiform,
rather rigid, and not collapsing naturally when taken out of