82 Writings of Edward L. Greene. [ZOE 
as a variety seems unwarranted.’’ This was published in April, _ 
and in the following month he described the species, from plants 
collected near Bigelow’s Station, as Ranunculus Biolettit. Dr. 
Gray, in his last revision, calls the plant 2. pustl/us var. Lind- 
heimert. It is R. trachyspermus Engelm, var. Lindheimeri, but 
there was an older X. ¢rachyspermus. Dr. Gray implies that R. 
Bonariensts Poir and R. fontanus Pres. are too nearly related to 
it, so also is apparently 2. humilis H. & A. 
Ranunculus Ludovicianus* Greene is R. Californicus, var. late 
lobus Gray. ‘The type was collected by the writer. 
Ranunculus maximus + Greene is R. orthorhynchus var. platy- 
Phyllus Gray. It is rather commorti in Marin County and has 
been collected by the writer at Ager, near the Klamath River. 
The extremes of its foliage are much less than are shown be- 
tween such forms of R. Calzfornicus as the prostrate plants with 
thick, hardly divided leaves, at Point Lobos, and the slender, 
erect ones with very finely divided foliage, which grow about 
Castroville. 
Ranunculus alismellus Greene is R. alismefolius var. alismellus 
Gray. 
Ranunculus rugulosus Greene is evidently a mere form of R. 
Californicus Benth. — - 
Ranunculus ellipticus Greene. In Pitt. ii, 110, this is described 
as ‘*a widely dispersed and often collected for western species, 
which has long been wanting specific definition,” and shortly 
after in Flora Franciscana it is reduced to 2. Slaberrimus Gray. 
Ranunculus subsagittatus Greene was raised in rank from R. 
Arizonicus var. subsagittatus Gray, in Pitt. ii, 59, where he 
remarks that “A. Arizonicus looks a good deal more like the 
ordinary Rocky Mountain a/finis than does the preceding.”? On 
page 110 following he admits having jumbled the species and 
reduces his sudsagittatus in consequence, 
Ranunculus Turneri Greene is apparently 2. laszococcus Ledeb. 
Berberis pumila Greene is B. repens Jind]. and the earliest 
specimen so labeled was from Mt. Hanna in Lake County. 
Vancouveria chrysantha Greene is V. hexandra, M. & R. 
* Bull. Cal. Acad. ii, 58. 
{ Bull. Torr. Club, xiv. 118. 
