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northeastern seaboard, such as were indicated by me in the 

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Thalictrum I.KIOPHYLI.UM. Plants very large, the scapes 

 6 to 9 inches high, the leaves erect, some of them 4 inches 

 high including the long firm petiole ; leaflets 9 to 17, glaucous 

 on both faces, hardly less so above than beneath, also both 

 faces devoid of notable venation and very smooth, of remark- 

 ably thin texture, even those remaining over from the pre- 

 ceding season hardly more than firm -membranaceous, nearly 

 all broader than long and all lightly but evenly and distinctly 

 crenate-lobed ; pedicels almost filiform yet rather wiry, wholly 

 curved and gradually so bearing the fruits at a distance from 

 the rachis, or occasionally almost pendulous : mature carpels 

 1 to 4, short and thickish, not strongly oblique at summit, 

 also rather lightly ribbed. 



Denizen of open bogs at much lower than alpine stations 



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in southern Wyoming, The specimens before me are, first t ^ 



of all, such as were collected by Elias Nelson, in Chimney 



Park, 1 Aug., 1901. These, which I name as typical, are 



from the herbarium of the University of Wyoming as a loan. 



All these are in nearly or quite mature fruit. The characters 



of the almost white-glaucous leaves of such very thin texture 



and with only a delicate and inconspicuous venation suffice to 



mark this as specifically distinct from other Rocky Mountain 



plants of its kindred which have w^iitish yet quite coriaceous 



and roughly veiny leaflets, all of which are also of cold dry 



alpine heights. At substantial agreement with these Nelsonian 



specimens are two sheets in the same herbarium gathered by 



Mr. Geo. E. Osterhout, in Big Creek Park, Wyoming, one 



in July, 1896, the other in the same month of 1898. 



Out of the 12 good specimens thus at hand, 11 are w^holly 

 pistillate. The other has a few stamens accompanying the 

 pistils ; and these show an excellent character in the anthers, 

 for these are uncommonly long and linear, as well as very j 



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