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between the high mountains and the Gulf of California, but 
west of the mountains the ground was well soaked by frequent 
showers, and vegetation was luxuriant. 
e numbers of the list are continuous with those of previous 
ones. All above 739 are additions to the known plants of the 
Cape Region. The smaller numbers belong to plants which 
occur in the previous lists, of which better specimens or fuller 
material require notice, or lead to rectifications of diagnosis. 
he grasses of the collection have been studied by Prof. F. 
Lamson-Scribner, and are not incorporated here, and there yet 
remain a considerable number of species, requiring careful study, 
which for lack of time could not be made ready for this paper. 
2. THALICTRUM VESICULOSUM Lec. var. PENINSULARE, 
Plants about 1 m. high, glabrous throughout, excepting a minute 
glandular pubescence on the margins of the sheaths, some- 
' what glaucous; stems striate: leaves tripinnate, distant; leaflets 
slender-petiolulate, thin, sometimes 3 cm., but ordinarily less than 
2 cm. long, green above, glaucous below, spatulate, ovate or 
obovate, 3-6-, commonly, 3-lobed at apex, the lobes entire: 
panicle loose and spreading somewhat leafy; pedicels elongated, 
filiform: flowers usually hermaphrodite: sepals 4, 2 mm. long, 
oblong-elliptic or oval, purplish, with conspicuous parallel veins: 
filaments filiform, flexuous, more or less dilated towards the top, 
in full development exceeding the linear 4-5 mm. long, mucro- 
nate anthers, ovaries about 5, stipitate; style filiform 6-8 mm. long, 
strongly papillose on the back, tapering to the extremity, stig- 
matic nearly the whole length, the thin margin rolled in: heads 
nodding in fruit, akenes 5-6 mm. long, usually concave on the 
inner angle, stipitate, tipped by more or less of the base of the 
style, the flattened sides and back strongly veined and nodulose.— 
Common at middle elevations in the mountains of the Cape 
Region. 
This plant is geographically so far removed from the South 
American type that comparison of specimens may show them to 
be specifically distinct. 
RANUNCULUS ABORTIVUS L. var. AUSTRALIS. 
leaves reniform, 3-5 cm. broad, 2-3 cm. long, petals 5-6 mm. 
long. Perennial, flowering in August. Abundant in wet places 
Lower 
