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erect, but are more usually ascending or decumbent ; flowers larger than in li. 
affinis, small forms of whicli it approaches, but from wliich it is easily distin- 
guished. Rocky Mountains of Colorado and British America to Alaska. It is 
80 Parry, 14 Hall & Harbour, and 17 Vasey. Found on the East Hum- 
boldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and on the Uintas, at an elevation of 
9-10,000 feet ; July-September. (26.) 
Ranunculus repens, L. From Canada and the Atlantic States to tlie 
Pacific. Found in the valleys of Northeastern Nevada, and the canons of the 
Wahsatch Mountains; altitude, G, 000 feet ; usually with small llowors and 
growing in much wetter localities than the next. (27.) 
Ranunculus macranthus, Scheele. Linncea, 21. 585. Root fascicled ; 
stem crcvi, more or less liirsute with spreading hairs ; branches short, erect, 
fevv-ilow^ered ; leaves lernately, or, n)orc Irofjiieul ly, l)i-tcrnatel3' divided; 
segments usually petiolulate, laeiiiiatcly lobed and toothed ; flowers large, 
with the sepals strictly retlexed ; carpels (li" long) crowded in subglobose 
heads, abont erpuding the broad snbulate beaks. — ^lliis is R. rejyens, Var, 
macranthus^ Gray, but it seems sufficiently well marked to retain its place as 
a distinct species by its stout erect hal)it, nniforndy large flowers with re- 
iUixed sepals, and especially by the long diverging beaks of the carpels. 
Texas, California, (4,729 Bolander,) and Oregon, (Lyall) Streambaid^s 
in the Wahsatch and Uintas; 5-8,000 feet altitude; June, July. (28.) 
Ranunculus fascicularis, ^[uhl. The leaves are less divided than 
usual ; radical ones ternate, leaflets 3-lobed, lobes mostly entire ; cauline 
ones with the leaflets linear-lanceolate and nearly entire ; flower small. 
Canada to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin ; collected by Lyall in Washington 
Territory, and Cahfornia by Mrs. A. J. Davis, and Professor Brewer (4,631.) 
Foot of the Washoe ^fountains, near Carson City, Nevada; May. (29.) 
Ranunculus orthoriiynciius, I look. Erect, slender, sparsely hirsute 
with appressed hairs; radical leaves petioled, upper ones sessile, 3-foliolate, 
leaflets linearly many-clei't, wiili white callous points; sepals reflexed, half 
tlie length of tiie petals ; carpels glabrous, compressed, strongly margined, 
shorter tliun the nearly straight style. Var. alpinus ; low, nearly or quite 
glabrous, stems usceiiding. — The large form occurs in low lands in Washing- 
ton Territory ; the variety, in the Wahsatch Mountains, at an altitude of 
10,000 feet; July. It is perhaps It. a?noenus, Gray, of the Colorado collec- 
tions, which has bc.'ii found only with immature fruit. (30.) 
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