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RANUNCULACEÆ.
[Ranunculus.
*** Stems short, simple. Leaves usually all radical. Scapes 1-flowered (1–3-flowered in R. Haastii, and sometimes 2-flowered in R. Enysii). | |
Glabrous, 6–15 in. high. Leaves 3–5-foliolate. Scapes 1–5. Achenes ovoid; style short, straight or curved | 9. R. Enysii |
Pilose or nearly glabrous, 6–15 in. high. Leaves 3–5-partite. Achenes fusiform, narrovced into a long spirally recurved style | 10. R. tenuicaulis. |
Short, stout, glabrous, almost stemless. Leaves all radical, fleshy or coriaceous, palmatipartite or 8-foliolate or 3–5-lobed. | |
Leaves few, coriaceous, palmatipartite; segments laciniate. Scape l–3-flowered, with crowded laciniate bracts under the flowers | 11. R. Haastii. |
Leaves biternately multifid, glaucous and fleshy; segments 110 in. long. Scape shorter than the leaves | 12. R. crithmifolius. |
Leaves many, 3-partite; segments lobed. Scape shorter than the leaves | 13. R. chordorhizos. |
Leaves 1–3, 3-lobed; segments toothed or crenate. Scape longer than the leaves | 14. R. paucifolius. |
Small. Leaves orbicular-reniform, 3-lobed to the middle; lobes crenate. Scape longer than the leaves | 15. R. Berggreni. |
Small. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets lobed or partite. Scape longer than the leaves | 16. R. novæ-zealandiæ. |
Stout or slender; silky, pilose, or glabrate. Leaves all radical, pinnate, pinnatisect, or pinnately multifid. | |
Stout. Leaves tripinnatisect, usually copiously silky. Scape stout. Flower large | 17. R. sericophyllus. |
Slender, almost glabrous. Leaves bipinnatisect or multifid; segments very narrow. Scape slender. Flowers small | 18. R. Sinclairii. |
Slender, pilose. Leaves pinnate; pinnæ 3-lobed or -partite; segments oblong or cuneate. Scape slender. Flowers small | 19. R. gracilipes. |
C. Stems not creeping. Achenes glabrous, compressed, with a thickened margin, not muricate. (Achenes sometimes obscurely compressed, but always thinner than in the previous section. The margins are said to be not thickened in R. aucklandicus. | |
Stems branched, leafy, 6–24 in. high. Leaves trifoliolate or biternate. Sepals reflexed | 20. R. hirtus. |
Small, stemless, 1½ in. high at most. Leaves rosulate, 3-lobed or -partite, exceeding the flower | 21. R. recens. |
Slender, 3–6 in. high. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets all stalked, obtuse. Achenes few, 3–5 | 22. R. Kirkii. |
Stems short, simple. Leaves all radical, usually toothed or 3–5 lobed, rarely partite. Scapes 1–5, longer than the leaves. Sepals spreading | 23. R. lappaceus. |
Stems branched, hirsute, leafy. Leaves coarsely toothed or 3 lobed. Scapes radical and axillary, not exceeding the leaves | 24. R. foliosus. |
Erect or suberect, clothed with short stiff appressed hairs. Leaves deltoid-cordate, 3-partite. Scapes 1–3-flowered, longer or shorter than the leaves. Sepals spreading | 25. R. subscaposus. |
Erect, clothed with strigose pubescence. Leaves rounded, 3-partite. Scapes 1 or 2, each with 1–3 flowers | 26. R. Hectori. |
Erect, strigose-hirsute. Leaves rounded-reniform, 3-partite. Scapes 1–3, 1-flowered. Achenes compressed, margins not thickened | 27. R. aucklandicus. |