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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. siibcongesta resemble 

 s\.xW\x\.^y A. capillmis nardifolia. It differs, however, in the scarious 

 bracts and the more acute sepals, which are nearly as broad as in 

 A. capillmis. 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. siibcongesta 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. siibcongesta is common in central and southwestern Mon- 

 tana. Flodman, 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. 



ATRAGENETENUiLOBA(Gray) Britton,Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 206. 1895. 



Clematis alpina var. occidentalis subvar. temiiloba A. Gray in 

 Newton & Jenney, Rep. Geol. Black Hills, 531. 1880. 



Clematis Psendoatragene var. subtriternata Kuntze, Verh. Bot. 

 Ver. Prov. Brand. : 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 

 ho. 467; also near Helena in 1895, Rydberg, no. 2652. 



Ranunculus Sabini R. Br. in Parry's ist Voy. App, 264. 



Specimens collected near the snow on Long Baldy, altitude 

 8000 ft. in the Little Belt Mountains, agree fully with the descrip- 

 tion of R. Brown's species. It is not to be referred to R. pjg- 



