4. R. scelerdétus (Celery-leaved Crowfoot). — Stem 1—2 feet
high, hollow, with abundant very acrid juice ; /eaves glabrous,
glossy, cut into three oblong lobes; flowers very small, pale
yellow ; fruzt an oblong eterio.—Growing in watery places.—F.
May—September. Annual.
5. &. Mdmmula (Lesser Spearwort).— Stem creeping at the
base, 4—18 in. high; “eaves petiolate, ovate, or lanceolate, hairy
or glabrous ; fowers 4—#? in. across. Named from its causing
inflammation or redness of the skin.—Growing in wet places.—
Fl. June—August. Perennial.
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6. R. réptans (Prostrate Spearwort).—A slender creeping form
with linear leaves, occurs rarely in the north; and

7. R. scoticus, with its earlier radical leaves reduced to recurved
subulate petioles, grows under water near the shores of lakes in
the north-west of Scotland.
8. Re. Lingua (Great Spearwort).—S/em erect, hollow, 2—3 feet
high ; cauline leaves lanceo-
late, sessile, 6—10 in. long,
but earlier submerged ones
cordate and obtuse; /lowers
2 in. across.— The largest
British species, an uncommon
but handsome plant, growing
in watery places. (Named
from the shape of the leaf.) —
Fl. June—September. Peren-
nial.
. RR. auricomus (Goldi-
locks). oot fibrous; stem
slender, about a foot high,
nearly smooth ; radical leaves
long-stalked, reniform, 3—
7-lobed ; cauline leaves sessile,
palmatifid, with  sub-entire
lobes; # in. across; sepals
spreading, downy, yellow ;
petals often partly absent.—
In copses.—Fl. April, May.
Perennial.
10. 2. dcris (Buttercup).—
Root fibrous ; stem sometimes
a rhizome, without runners ;
radical leaves palmately 3—
y) 7-lobed, lobes deeply cut;

R. BULBOSUS (Bulbous Buttercup). cauline leaves 3-lobed with

entire linear lobes; peduncle

branched, not furrowed, 1—3 feet high, hairy ; /Zowers 1 in.
across ; sepals downy, spreading ; carpels glabrous. —Meadows.—
Fl. April—September. Perennial.
