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tire: stipules short, setaceous, entire, deciduous: glands 

 transversely oblong, dark red-purple, with a deep, flabelli- 

 form, crenate, white or pinkish appendage : seed light gray, 

 rather sharply angled and faintly rugose. 



Probably Lower California, but the specimen has no 

 ticket. 



3. New Polypetake. 



Ranunculus Bolanderi. — Stem stout, erect, U — 3 feet 

 high, from a flesh} -fibrous, perennial root: glabrous below, 

 the peduncles and calyx pubescent: leaves lanceolate, the 

 radical on very long petioles, the cauline sheathing, margin 

 obscurely repand-denticulate : petals bright yellow, broadly 

 obovate, thrice the length of the sepals; akenes numerous, 

 in a globose head; beak slender, acute, somewhat incurved. 



Long Yalley, Mendocino County, May, 1886, H. N. Bo- 

 lander, No. 4730. 



This large and showy species has the general appearance 

 of R. Lingua of Northern Europe; but that has its akene 

 tipped by a stout, blunt style. The transversely elongated, 

 inflexed callosities which are distributed along the margin 

 of the leaf, together with the great size of the plant, dis- 

 tinguish this Coast Eange species from its allies of the Sierra 

 Nevada, B. Lemmoni and B. alismcefolius. 



Ranunculus Ludovicianus. — Pilose-pubescent, a foot or 

 two high : branches ascending or depressed, stout and fistular : 

 leaves ternately parted, the segments broad and with some 

 conspicuously callous-pointed lobes or teeth: calj^x reflexed, 

 petals 10 — 15, a half inch long: akenes in a globose head, 

 cuneate-obovate, a line and a half long, thickened upwards, 

 marginless, tijDped with a short, slender, recurved style. 



High valleys among the mountains of San Luis Obispo 

 County, California, and eastward to Tehachapi Pass. Col- 

 lected by Mrs. Curran, in 1884. A large-flowered showy 

 species, covering the ground in many places with its de- 

 pressed flowering stems and branches. 



