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long, short-petioled leaflets rather constantly 11, not very 

 glaucescent above and somewhat shining as well as conspicu- 

 ously though very delicately venulose, the lower face very 

 glaucous and more coarsely veiny, the lobes shallow and very 

 obtuse: pedicels often /4 inch long, abruptly recurved, the 

 longer seeming pendulous, the fruit often of a single achene, 

 less commonl}^ of 2 or 3, narrowly obovoid above a short thick 

 stipe, the body but little inequilateral and style not much 

 curved, the ribs few and coarse, intervening striae rarely 

 manifest. 



A very hard and rigid small species, represented by numer- 

 ous specimens on sheets 303,811 and 303,812, U. S. Herb. 



J 



1894. 



Thalictrum ELEGANTUI.UM. About 6 inches high, the 

 leaves 2 to 2/^ inches long, their petioles short but slender, 

 these and the equally slender stem without purple tint and 

 pale green ; leaflets usually 21, glaucescent and dull as well as 

 prominently venulose on the upper face, very glaucous beneath 

 and also there prominently veiny, the lobes abruptly acutish : 

 stem wuth a solitary and simply ternate leaf below the middle ; 

 pedicels about K inch long, filiform, recurved, not pendulous : 

 achenes most commonly 3, rarely 2 or 4, very shortly and 

 stoutly yet not indefinitely stipitate, of subfalcate-oval figure 

 with short uncinate style, also somewhat stoutly ribbed and 

 with some intervening shorter striae. 



Clover Mountains, Nevada, S. Watson, Sept., 1868; his n. 

 5 as in U. S. Herb. 



Thalictrum Monoense. Plants slender, 3 to 5 inches 

 high ; foliage short and compact ; leaflets only 11, mostly as 

 broad as long, obtusely about 3-lobed, dull glaucescent green 

 above and there mostly veinless except as to the lobes, these 

 marked by 1 to 3 slender but sharply prominent whitish 

 veins, the low^er face very glaucous and venulose : flowering 

 pedicels short, slender, pendulous: sepals oblong-lanceolate. 



