RANUNCULUS gramineus.
Grassy Crowfoot.
POLYANDRIA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-leaved. Petals 5, with a honey-
bearing pore on the inside of the claw of each.
Seeds naked.
Spec. Char. Leaves linear-lanceolate, many-ribbed,
sessile. Stem erect, very smooth, with few
flowers.
Svn. Ranunculus gramineus. Linn. Sp. Pi. 773.
Sm. FI. Brit. 588. With. 505. Hull. ed. 2. 1G4.
R. angustifolius bulbosus. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 850.
D r . "WITHERING mentions this plant as having been
brought from North Wales by a Mr. Pritchard, on which
authority it is now admitted into the British Flora. We have
seen no native specimen, that in our plate being taken from
the garden of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, in May last. Its
natural situation is in dry mountain pastures.
The root is bulbous or rather tuberous, perennial, throwing
out its fibres in a whorled or radiating form, and crowned
with the thready remains of old leaves. Stem upright, a foot
high, round, smooth, bearing but a small number of flowers,
and very few leaves. The leaves are mostly radical, with
sheathing stalks; those on the stem sessile; all lanceolate, en-
tire, glaucous, with many ribs. Flowers terminal, larrre, of
a bright full yellow. Calyx quite smooth, spreading, not
deflexed.