82 Writings of Edivard 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 Biolcttii. Dr. 

 Graj% in his last revision, calls the plant R. pjcsillus vdiX. Lind- 

 hehneri. It is R. trachyspermus Kngelm, var. Lindheiniej'i, but 

 there was an older R. trachyspenmis. Dr. Gray implies that R. 

 Bonariensis Poir and R. fontanus Presl. are too nearly related to 

 it, so also is apparently R. humilis H. & A. 



Ramincuhis Ludoviciamis^ Greene is R. Calif ornicus, var. lati- 

 lobus Gray. The type was collected by the writer. 



Rariunadus maximusy Greene is R. orthorhyiichus vdiV. platy- 

 phyllus Gray. It is rather common 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. Californicus as the prostrate plants with 

 thick, hardly divided leaves, at Point lyobos, and the slender, 

 erect ones with very finely divided foliage, which grow about 

 Castroville. 



Ranunculus alisnicllus Greene is R. alisviccfolius var. alismcllus 

 Gray, 



Ranunculus rugulosus Greene is evidently a mere form of i?. 

 Calif orniais Benth. 



Ranunculus ellipticus Greene. In Pitt, ii, no, 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 R. glaberrinius Gray. 



Ranunculus subsagittatus Greene was raised in rank from R. 

 Arisonicus var. siibsagitlatus Gray, in Pitt, ii, 59, where he 

 remarks that "7?. Ari-onicus looks a good deal more like the 

 ordinary Rocky Mountain affinis than does the preceding." On 

 page no following he admits having jumbled the species and 

 reduces his subsagittatus in consequence. 



Ranunculus Turneri Greene is apparently R. lasiococcus Ledeb. 



Bcrberis pumila Greene is B. repens L,indl. 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. 

 tBull. Torr. Club, xiv. 118. 



