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R ANUNCU LU S repens.
Creeping Crowfoot.
P O L Y A N D R I A Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5*leaved. Petals 5, with a honeybearing
pore on the infide of the claw of each.
Seeds naked.
Spec. Char. Calyx threading. Flower-ftalks furrowed.
Scyons creeping. Leaves compound.
Syn. Ranunculus repens. Linn. Sp. PI. 779.
HudJ. 240. With. 509. Relh. 214. Sibth. 173.
Curt. Lond.fafc. 4. t. 38. Mart. Fl. Ruß, t. 29.
R. pratenfis repens. Rati Syn. 247.
P
REQtJENT in meadows, moift paftures, and efpecially in
fliady wafte places, flowering in June, July and Auguft. The
fibrous root, and long creeping runners, eafily diftinguilh
this Crowfoot from the laft, of which it is wonderful that
any botanift ihould have thought it a variety. The flowering-
ftems are eredt, branched and leafy. Leaves rather broader,
and more diftinaiy twice ternate than thofe of the bulbofus-,
they are alfo darker, and often marked with a black fpot. The
calyx-leaves are fpreading, not reflexed. In other refpe&s
thefe two fpecies very much agree, and their qualities are
fimilar. Both blifter the Ikin, and are very acrid in tafte.
R. repens, though generally hairy, is fometimes found fmooth,
particularly on the north fides of church-yards, and fuch dank
ihady places.