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with the material in the Columbia herbarium. The form repre- 
sented by Watson’s original from the King Expedition and the 
common plant of Montana, I think, is perfectly distinct from both 
A. Fendleri and A. congesta, and the relationship is rather with A. 
capillaris. Depauperate specimens of A. sydcongesta resemble 
strikingly A. capillaris nardifolia. \t differs, however, in the scarious 
bracts and the more acute sepals, which are nearly as broad as in 
A. capillaris. It surprises me that it ever could have been made a 
variety of A. Fendleri, which has very narrowly lanceolate atten- 
uate sepals. I do not.see any reason for uniting it with A. congesta, 
which has lanceolate, decidedly carinate sepals and headlike in- 
florescence, while in A. subcongesta the sepals are ovate rather than 
lanceolate, are not carinate, but three-nerved, and the inflores- 
cence is open. As stated before, it comes in every respect nearer 
to A. capillaris, but I think it has just as good right to specific 
rank as any of the species mentioned. 
A. subcongesta is common in central ‘and southwestern Mon- 
tana. F lodmapn, nos. 433 to 438, Rydberg, 2642, etc. 
AQUILEGIA JonEsii Parry, Am. Nat. 8: 211. 1874. 
This rare little columbine was collected in fruit on a mountain 
top near the Neihart Pass in the Little Belt Mountains, August 
10, 1896, Flodman, no. 451. 
ATRAGENE TENUILOBA (Gray) Britton, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 206. 1895. 
| Clematis alpina var. occidentalis subvar. tenuiloba A. Gray in 
Newton & Jenney, Rep. Geol. Black Hills, 531. 1880. 
Clematis Pseudoatragene var. subtriternata Kuntze, Verh. Bot. 
Ver. Prov. Brand. 26: 160. 1884. 
This species has been reported hitherto only from the Black 
Hills and Colorado Mountains. In the Little Belt Mountains near 
Neihart Pass, at an altitude of 7000 ft., Aug. 10, 1896, Flodman 
No. 467; also near Helena in 1895, Rydberg, no. 2652. 
Ranuncutus Sasint R. Br.in Parry's 1st Voy. App. 264. 
Specimens collected near the snow on Long Baldy, altitude 
8000 ft. in the Little Belt Mountains, agree fully with the as is » 
_ tion of R. Brown's species. It is not to be meee to ®. ode 
