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akene; that is to say, the seed is more or less flattened, and 

 in close contact throughout with the wall of the cartilagi- 

 nous pericarp. In Kumlienia the carpel is perfectly utricu- 

 lar. The seed is terete, and nowhere touches the wall of 

 the thin, bladdery pericarp; and the genus is not only most 

 clearly distinct from Rununcuhis, but its place is next to 

 Trautvetteria, the fruit-character of which is almost the same. 

 I gladly dedicate this very characteristic plant of our 

 Sierras to Prof. Thure Ludwig Kumlien, A. M., formerly 

 Professor of Natural History at Albion, Wisconsin, a learned 

 and zealous naturalist, and my first instructor in the sci- 

 ence of botany. 



