

56 BOTANY OP THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



Anemone sphenophylla Poepp. Fragm. Syn. 27 (1833). Typo locality, "in Chile 

 boreal [i] collibus graminos[is] ad Concon." 



Johnson Canon, Panamint Mountains (Nos. 404, 500). This species appears never 

 to have been collected in California before. 



Pulsatilla occidental (Wats.) Proc. Amer. Acad. xi. 121 (1876), under Anemone- 

 Freyn, Deutech. Mot. Monate. viii. 78 (1890). Typo locality, -in the mountains, from 

 British Columbia southward to Mt. Shasta and Lassen's Peak." 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1531.) This is the American representative 

 of the Old World species P. alpina. 



Ranunculus alismaefolius alismellus Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 327 (18G8) 

 Type locality, "Lake Tenayo and on Mount Dana, Sierra Nevada, to the height of 

 12,000 feet." 8 



Near Mineral King (No. 1567) and in Pig Cottonwood Meadows (No. 2123), Sierra 

 Nevada. 



Ranunculus aquatilis trichophyllus (Chaix.) in Villars, Hist. PI. Dauph.336 

 (1780), as 7^. trichophyllus; Gray, Man. ed. 5. 40(1807). 



Our plant is the slender form with potiolate leaves, all submersed, the segments 

 collapsing when drawn from the water. An elaborate discussion of the subgenus 

 Ratrachium has been published by Hiern.' Ho includes all the usually recognized 

 species and varieties under one species, R. lu/drocharis Spennor (1829), and separates 

 the forms into thirty-five varieties. Of these, the following eight occur in the United 

 States, lobbii, hedera'folius, cwspitosus, longirosMt, trichophyllus, conferroides, drouetii 

 and submenus, the varieties lobbii and longirostris being exclusively North American! 

 Dr. Gray 2 in the latest revision of the American representatives of the group retained 

 fourspecies, circinalns, aquatilis, hedcraceus, and lobbii. 



To R. circinatus and R. lobbii Hiern's varieties longirostris and lobbii respectively 

 belong, while couferroides, drouetii, and submerms appear to be referable to flaccid- 

 leafed forms, trichophj/llus to stiff-leafed forms, of R. aquatilis trieUphyllm. Hiern's 

 classification and nomenclature are in some respects contrary to principle, and their 

 application to the American species cannot be considered satisfactory. 



Observed in the Kern River, near Kernville; in a stream in Walker Basin ; in 

 ditches near Visalia; and in the Kaweah River, near Three Rivers (No. 1298). All 

 these stations are in intramontane California. 



Ranunculus cymbalaria Pursh, Fl. ii. 392 (1814). Typo locality, "in saline 

 marshes near the salt-works of Onondago, New York." 



We found this plant near Keeler (No. 854) ; in Owens Valley (No. 1771) ; iu Black 

 Canon, White Mountains (No. 1791); at several points between Lono Pino and In- 

 dian Wells; and on both slopes of Walker Pass. # 



Ranunculus oxynotus Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. x. 68 (1874). Type locality 

 " California, near summit of Castle Peak, Sierra County, at 9 000 feet " ' 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1534). This is a species peculiar to the 

 high Sierra Nevada, growing a little below timber-line. It was abundant on the 

 slope where the specimens were collected. 



Aquilegia pubescens sp. nov. Platf T 



Rootetock branching, about 5 or 6 mm. thick, densely clothed with dead leaf- 

 sheaths; stem 20 to 30 cm. high, glabrous below, sparingly clammy-hairy near the 

 mftorescenco, few- (commonly 2- to 5-) flowered; radical leaves on slender gla- 

 brous petioles 10 to 20 cm. long, simply ternate; leaflets (with petiolules 20 to 30 

 mm. long) 3-p arted to 3-divided, the divisions sessile, cuneate-obovato, with two 



■Seem. Journ. Bot. ix. 43-49, 65-69, 97-107, pi. cxiv., cxv. (1871). 

 *Proc. Amer. Acad. xxi. 363, 364 (1886). 



