. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. CROVVl-OOT FAMILY. 105 Ranunculus delphinifolius Torr. Yellow Water-Crowfoot. Fig. 1895. Ranunculus mullifidus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 736. 1814. Xot Forsk. 1775. R. delphinifolius Torr.; Eaton, Man. Ed. 2, 395- 1818. Ranunculus lacuslris Beck & Tracy, N. Y. Med. and Phys. Journ. 2 : 112. 1823. R. missouriensis Greene, Erythea 3: 20. 1895. Aquatic or partly emersed,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. CROVVl-OOT FAMILY. 105 Ranunculus delphinifolius Torr. Yellow Water-Crowfoot. Fig. 1895. Ranunculus mullifidus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 736. 1814. Xot Forsk. 1775. R. delphinifolius Torr.; Eaton, Man. Ed. 2, 395- 1818. Ranunculus lacuslris Beck & Tracy, N. Y. Med. and Phys. Journ. 2 : 112. 1823. R. missouriensis Greene, Erythea 3: 20. 1895. Aquatic or partly emersed, branching, sometimes several feet long. Immersed leaves repeatedly di- vided into capillary segments, short-petioled, 1-3' long; emersed leaves glabrous or pubescent, i'-a' broad, petioled or the upper nearly sessile, 3-S-di- vided, the divisions cleft into linear or cuneate segments; flowers yellow, 3"-i8" broad; petals 5-8, much longer than the sepals; head of fruit globose or oblong, 3"-s" long; achenes less than i" long, callous-margined, at least toward the base, tipped with a straight persistent beak of one-half their length or more. In ponds, Maine and Ontario to Michigan, Oregon, North Carolina, Missouri and Arkansas. The so-called var. terreslris is an emersed form. 2. Ranunculus Purshii Richards. Pursh's Buttercup. Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York : Scribner
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