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sometimes bearing stamens only; at other times, both 
stamens and pistils, and.these perfect. .The stamens are 
-three-fourths of an inch long: filaments compressed: anthers 
oblong, yellow. Pistils numerous: style, or awn, as long 
as the stamens, very silky, naked only above. The leaves 
are as described by M. Kunth; and the stem is angled and 
downy. 
2. Ranunculus Guzmannii; folis superne petiolisque vil- 
losis, radicalibus suborbiculatis trifidis, lobis apice grosse 
dentatis, superioribus 3-fidis lobis oblongis integris, 
caule erecto piloso paucifloro, calyce adpresso villosis- 
simo. DC.— Humb. Tabl. Phys. des Reg. Eq. p. 69. Humb. 
et Kunth, Nov. Gen, v. 5. p. 43. De Less. Ic. v. 1. t. 94. 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 29.—8. nanus; foliis profunde 
partitis. E 
Has. g. Pastures at Pasco. 
The solitary specimen of this plant, brought home by Mr. 
Cruckshanks, agrees well with Humboldt’s description and 
with De Lessert’s figure, except that the stem is scarcely 4 
inches high, and the leaves are very deeply divided. The roots 
are fasciculated, a span long.— This is a truly alpine species 
of Ranunculus. It is among the plants noticed by M. de 
Humboldt in describing the vegetable features, at different 
elevations, of the sequinoctial regions. ‘Still higher,” he says, 
* namely at an clevation of 3500 métres, (1196 toises) 
the arborescent plants terminate. It is only at the volcano 
of. Pichincha, in a‘inarrow valley: which descends : from 
Guaga-Pichincha, that we have: discovered. a groupe of 
arborescent syngenesious plants, whose trunks attain to 70t 
8 métres, (21 or 24 Parisian feet.) To between 2000 and 
. 4100* métres, (1026 to 2103- toises,) the region of alpine 
plants extends: it is that of the Stehelinas, of the Gentians, 
of the Espeletia frailexon, whose downy leaves afford shelter 
to the unhappy Indians who are benighted in these regio" 
De cuf abere adorned with the Lobelia nana, thè Sida 
CD ie Ranunculus Guzmannii, the Ribes frig idum, 
the Gentiana Quitensis, and many other species which will 
