water-ranunculus

For awhile I walked on the lush grass by the brimming river, where in the little creeks and bays the water-ranunculus floated its small white flowers that were to continue the race.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

Siberian variety, 'multifida,' C. 1679, divides itself almost as the submerged leaves of the water-ranunculus.

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

But the water-lily and water-ranunculus leaves, and such others, are to the orders of earth-loving leaves what ducks and swans are to birds; (the swan is the water-lily of birds;) they are _swimming_ leaves; not properly watery creatures, or able to live under water like fish, (unless {56} when dormant), but just like birds that pass their lives on the surface of the waves -- though they must breathe in the air.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859