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of Eschscholtz and Good Hope; and in the little island of St. George, to the north of the Aleutian Isles. 

 .CAa/w2S50.— Schlcchtendal observes that this plant is like none of the species of Ranunculus belonging- to this 

 section, and that it is allied to Ficaria in its triphyllous calyx, and in having more than live petals ^but so dis- 

 tinct from aU, that it might form a separate genus, were it not for tlie presence of its nectariferous pore. 



3. KFlammula; foliis glabris linearibus lanceolatis subovatisve subiiitegris, caule de- 

 clinato plus minusve radicante, pedunculis oppositifoliis, carpellis la^vibuy. 



«. major; caule altiore, basi solummodo decumbente radicante, foliis lanceolatis ovatisve 

 inferioribus petiolatis serratis.— R. Flammula. Linn. Sp. PL p. 772. MicL* Am. v. I. p. 

 321.? Pursh, Fl Am. v. 2. p. 391. BigeL Fl. BosL ed. 2. p. 224. Rich, in FranhL \st 

 Journ. ed. 2. App. p. 22. Be Cand. Prodr. v. L p. 32. 



/3. intermedia; caule repente gracili, foliis anguste lanceolatis superioribus linearibus in- 

 tegerrimis. 



y. filiformis ; caule longe repente filiformi, foliis remotis linearibus integerrimis.— R. 

 reptans. Linn, Sp. PL p. 723. FL Lapp. p. 236, t. 3./ 5. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 32. 



R. filiformis. Mick. Am. v. 1, p. 320. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 392. BigeL FL Bost ed. 

 2. p. 224. 



Hab. «. Canada. Mr. Goldie. fi. and y. On the gravelly banks of rivers from Canada to lat. 69 o. X)r. 

 Richardson. Brummond. Newfoundland. Mr. Morrison.— "^oihinQ is more evident than that there exists 

 in Europe, as well as in N. America, a series of varieties, froin the small slender creeping R. reptans of Linn. 

 with lineal- entire leaves, as figured in the Fl. Lapp, of the illustrious Swede, (precisely the R. Jiliformis of 

 Michaux,) to the nearly erect, broadly lanceolate, generally serrated-leaved, common appearance of R. Flam- 

 mula. In the more northern parts of British N. America, indeed, the slender creeping varieties are the most 

 common, (as in the alpine parts of Scotland, upon the stony margins of lakes.) I have only received «. from 

 Mr. Goldie, gathered in the southern parts of the Canadian possessions. Farther south, in Pennsylvania and 

 Virginia, it appears, according to Pursh, to be the only kind found. It is singular that Dr. Bigelow should 

 consider it to be introduced in the environs of Boston, where y. like\vise grows, and varying as he says, 

 with oval and lanceolate leaves, m hich latter would bring it to var. a. It does not appear that any of the 

 varieties are found on the Rocky Mountains, nor to the westward of them. The carpels in all are roundish, 

 sub-compressed, glabrous, and free from hair, terminated by a short, recurved mucro. 



4. R. Cymhalaria ; stolonifera, foliis radicalibus ovato-cordatis petiolatis obtusis grosse 

 cuneatis glabris, scapo uni-trifloro, petalis oblongis calycem sequantibus, carpellis striatis 

 in capitulura (plerumque) con ge st is.— PwrsA, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 392. BigeL Fl. Bost ed. 2. 

 p. 225. De Cand. Prodr. v. \. p. 33. Rich, in FrankL \st Journ. ed. 2. App. p. 23. — R. 

 salsuginosus. ^^ Pall. Iter, v. B. p. 213," (according to Schlechtendal, because Pallas 

 quotes Amman,) but not of De Cand,? — R. repens, flore in caule singulari, foliis varie 

 sectis. Amm, Ruth. p. 81. t \Z. f. 2, 



^. alpina; minor, foliis apice tridentatis, scapo unifloro. — R. halophilus. Schlecht. 

 Animadv. Bot. Sect, 1 . p. 23. t. ^. f. 1 . ? 



Hab. Common in moist shady places, from Canada to near the Arctic Sea, lat. 68°, and from Hudson's 

 Bay to the summits of the Rocky Mountains. Dr. Richardson, Goldie. Douglas. Drummond. Morrison. — 

 A very singular plant, first detected by Pursh near the salt works of Onondago, New York, Dr. Torrey has 



• Pursli considers the synonym of this author, I know not upon what afithority, to belong to li. pusUlus. 



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