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is inserted above the base, often very considerably so." (Grray, MSS.) From 
the east foot of the Sierras to Salt Lake, on the foot hills, and occasionally in 
the cafions, at an altitude of 5-9,000 feet. May- July. Plate I. Fig. 1. 
A plant in flower; natural size. Fig. 2 and 3. Sepal and petal; enlarged 
two diameters. Fig. 4. Matured head, showing the receptacle, the per- 
sistent calyx and marcescent corolla, and a portion of the achenia ; natural 
size. Fig. 5. Achenium, twice the natural size, w^ith one side removed, show- 
ing the seed in position and the ventral wing. Fig. 6 and 7. The winged 
seed with its rhaphe, and the embryo; enlarged four diameters. (16.) 
Var. TENELLUS. More delicate and slender; stems 1° high, with some- 
times a leaflet above the middle similar to the radical leaves ; petals and 
achenia rather smaller, aud the latter less numerous and crowded. Pilot 
Rock Point, Salt Lake, Utah. Plate I. Fig. 8. Plant ; natural size. Fig. 
9 and 10, Petal and sepal ; enlarged two diameters. (17.) 
Ranunculus alismjsfolius, Geyer., Var. montanus. Low (6' high,) 
alpine ; stems ascending ; leaves entii-e ; carpels rather shorter-beaked than 
usual in the species. — It is 79 Parry and 15 Vasey, from Colorado, and 1684 
Brewer, from Lake Tenago, in the Sierra Nevada. The species is dis- 
tinguished from R. Flammula not oidy by the longer-beaked achenia, but also 
by the more prominent scale and deeper nectary of the larger petal. 
Shore of Marian Lake in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and at the 
head of Provo River in the Uintas; 9,000 feet altitude ; June- August (18.) 
Ranunculus Flammula, L., Var. eeptans, Gray. New England to Cal- 
ifornia and noiihward to the Arctic Ocean. Found only on the upper Bear 
River in the Uinta Mountains, Utah; 8,000 feet altitude; August. (19.) 
Ranlt^culus Cymbalaria, Pursh. Tlni most abundant of the species 
occurringin Nevada and Utah, prcti'iriug siihsaliix' or alkaline soils; 4-6,000 
feet altitude; May-September. From New ;iiid tlie Great Lakes to 
California, and northward to llu- Arctic Circle. (20.) 
Rani:xculi:s affinis, Br. Radical leaves ])('ii()l(Hl, usually })('<latf]y mul- 
tifid; cauhne oi)f".-< sub.sfssilo, digitate, with broadly linear lobe.s; stem erect, 
few-flowered; carpels with recurved ])eaks, in oblong-cylindrical heads; more 
or less pubescent throughout. — Referred by Dr. Hooker to R.auricomus, from 
which it differs only in its oblong heads. Var. leiocarpus, Trautv., with the 
lower leaves less divided, .'^lightly lobed oi- only deeply Cfeiutte : 1-li^ high; 
flowers rather small and carpels somewhat pubescent Grow ing in the Uinta 
