. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 14. Ranunculus ovalis Raf. Prairie Crow- foot. Fig. 1908. Ranunculus ovalis Raf. Proc. Dec. 2^, 1814. Ranunculus rhomboideus Goldie, Edinb. Phil, Journ. 6 : 329. 1822. Pubescent, branching, 6'-i8' high. Lower and basal leaves oval, oblong, or ovate-oblong, long- petioled, the blade i' in length or more, crenate or slightly lobed, obtuse, the base more or less c
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 14. Ranunculus ovalis Raf. Prairie Crow- foot. Fig. 1908. Ranunculus ovalis Raf. Proc. Dec. 2^, 1814. Ranunculus rhomboideus Goldie, Edinb. Phil, Journ. 6 : 329. 1822. Pubescent, branching, 6'-i8' high. Lower and basal leaves oval, oblong, or ovate-oblong, long- petioled, the blade i' in length or more, crenate or slightly lobed, obtuse, the base more or less cuneate, rarely subcordate; upper cauline leaves sessile or short-petioled, deeply divided into 3-7 linear or oblong obtuse lobes; flowers yellow, 9"-i2" broad, the petals narrow and much exceed- ing the calyx ; head of fruit spherical; carpels and achenes oval or orbicular, minutely beaked. In fields and on prairies, Labrador ( ?), Quebec and Ontario to Saskatchewan, Alberta, Illinois, Wiscon- sin and Nebraska. March-May. 15. Ranunculus Harveyi (A. Gray) Brit- ton. Harvey's Buttercup. Fig. 1909. Ranunculus abortivus var. Harveyi A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 21 : 372. 1886. R. Harveyi Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 159. 1894. Glabrous, stem erect, slender, branched, 8'-i8' tall, from a cluster of narrowly fusiform roots. Leaves thin, the basal and lower ones long- petioled, reniform or suborbicular, obtusely crenate or somewhat lobed, s"-i8" wide, cordate, or some of them truncate at the base, the upper sessile or nearly so, deeply 3-cleft or 3-parted into linear or narrowly oblong entire or few- toothed obtuse segments; flowers bright yellow, 6"-9" broad; petals 4-8, oblong, 4 or 5 times as long as the reflexed sepals; head of fruit globose, 2" in diameter; achenes oblique, compressed, tipped with a minute straight beak. On dry hillsides, Missouri and Arkansas. April- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that ma
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