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BOTANY. 
and Walisatcli Mountains, at an altitude of 6-9,000 feet; July, August. It 
is 15 Hall & Harbour, 13 Vasey, and 80 Parry in part, from Colorado ; pre- 
viously reported only from tlie Arctic coast. (21.) 
Ranunculus glabeerimus. Hook. Glabrous ; leaves petioled, entire or 
3-toothed, or the cauline ones 3-cleft, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse ; heads 
globose. — Root fibrous-fascicled ; stem 2-4' liigb, 1-3-flowered ; corolla an 
inch in diameter; petals broadly obovate, twice tlie length of the calyx, the 
nectary a Inroad tube 1" in depth — in this respect resembling R. Lingua. 
In tlie Rocky Mountains of Oregon, Washington Territory, and Idaho. 
Washoe Mountains, near Carson City, Nevada, where it was also found by 
Dr. Anderson ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; April, May. (22.) 
Ranunculus scelekatus, L. Atlantic States and Canada to the Arctic 
Circle ; collected by Bourgeau and Geyer, in the Rocky Mountains, and also 
by Nuttall and Frtimont on tlie head-waters of the North Platte. Found in 
Ruby Valley, Nevada, and in Salt Lake Valley, Utah; altitude 5-6,000 feet; 
May-October. (23.) 
Ranunculus multifidus, Pursh., Var. d repens. Hook. Creeping, with 
the leaves all round-reniform, palmately 3-5-cleft. — Arctic America; also 
Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Weber Valley, Utah ; altitude 5,500 feet ; 
August. R. li?7iosus., Nutt., from the head-w^aters of the Snake River, has 
still more divided leaves and is Var. r, Hook. (24.) 
Ranunculus digitatus. Hook. Kew. Jour. Bot. 3. 124, t. 4. Dwarf; 
very glabrous ; root grumous ; leaves few, petioled, digitately or somewhat 
pedately lobed, the 3-5-segments narrowly lanceolate, or oblong-spatulate, 
obtuse; flowers 2-3, terminal, with reflexed sepals and 7-11 oblong cuneate 
petals ; fruit subglobose, the carpels beaked wdth the subulate recurved 
style. — Stem 2-3' high, simple ; flowers 9" in diameter. Collected previ- 
ously only by Burke, near Fort Hall, in Southeastern Idaho ; now found on 
Mt. Tobin Range, above Cumberland, Nevada, and by Prof. D. C. Eaton, 
in the Wahsatch, near Cottomvood Lake; altitude 9,000 feet; June. (25.) 
Ranunculus nivalis, Br. Radical leaves dilated, lobed ; lobes somewhat 
ovate; cauHne leaves palmate; stem about 1-flowered; calyx very hirsute, 
shorter than the petals; style ecpialingthe glabrous ovaries ; heads subglobose. 
Var. EscHSCHOLTzii. {R. Esclischoltzii Schlecht.) Radical leaves 3-lobed, 
lateral lobes somewhat divided, sparsely ciliate ; calyx less hirsute, with 
whitish hairs ; styles sliorter than the achenia. — The stems are described as 
