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4975. North Coast Ranges: Trinity Summit, Jcpson 2106; South Yollo Bolly, Jepson. Soutli- 

 ern California: Bear Valley, San IJernarilino Mts., Parish 3693; Mt, San Jaeinto, HaU 2405. 

 Eefs. — R.\NUNCULUS ALlsM.\EFOLiu.s Gcycr ; Wats. Proc. Am, Acad, 14:289 (1879) ; Geycr's 

 Idaho material at Kew (Herb. Benth. ) is taken by us as the type; we noted while at Kew that 

 it has an excellent match in Ahrams old. Paradise Creek, Latah Co,, Ida. 7i, boUiniUri Greene, 

 Bull, Cal. Acad, 2:58 (1886), type loc. Long Valley, central 

 Mendocino Co., Bofandcr 4730. Var, hartw'KJII Jepson, 7i", 

 hnrticegi Greene, Er^-thea, 3:45 (1895), based on if. ulismac- 

 foUus, var. Benth. "Pl. Hartw, 295 (1848), type loc. Bear 

 Valley, Nevada Co., Hartwig 1627; (in Sierran specimens 

 the petioles and stems may be hairy or glabrous, even on the 

 same plant), Var, .\lismeli.u,s Gray, Proc, Am, Acad. 7:327 

 (1868). type loc. Yosemite Park (Lake Tenaya and Mt. Dana, 

 Bolaiuhr]. B. alisincUvs Greene, Fl. Fr. 29"7 (1892). 



4. R. lemmonii Gray, Perennial ; stems scape-liko, 

 i to 7 inches liigh, these and the leaves from a small 

 short or globose rootstock bearin": numerous stoutish 

 fibres; scapes g-labrous, sim])le or ;]-branche(;l near the 

 ground or midway, with a pair of opposite bracts 

 or leaves below the middle ; leaves lanceolati', pilose, 

 li/o to 3I/2 inches long, drawn down to petioles a.s 

 long or nearly (and .strongly dilated at base) ; flowers 

 6 to 9 lines broad, solitarj' on the scape or its scape- 

 like branches; petals 5, rarely 6 or 7, obovate or 

 oblong ; achenes in a globose liead, verj' turgid, 

 minutely pubescent, the beak very short. 



Dry plains or valleys in the mountains, eastern 

 slope of the Sierra Nevada in Sierra and Nevada cos., 

 5000 feet. Jlay. Very nearly related to R. alismae- 

 folius var. hartwegii, 



Locs, — Sierra Valley; Truckee, Sonne. 



Ref, — Ranunculus lemmonh Gray, Proc, Am. Acad. 10:68 (1874), type loc. Sierra Valley, 

 Lemmon. 



5. R, flammula L, Spe.\r\vort, Perennial ; stems slender or almost filiform, 

 decumbent or creeping, rooting at the nodes, 3 to 13 inches long; leaves lanceo- 

 late, linear- or oblong-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, entire, 1/. to 1% inches long, 

 tapering into petioles 14 to 214 inches long, or sometimes sessile; flowers 2 to 5 

 lines bi-oad, terminating leafy stems or naked scape-like peduncles 1 to 2 inches 

 high ; achenes comparatively few, thick, less than Yj to 1 line long, the beak 

 short. 



Margins of lakes or shallow slow meadow-streamlets: North Coast Ranges; 

 Sierra Nevada at middle altitudes; San Bernardino Mts, July. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges: Pf, Reyes, Jepson 1167; Mt. Hanna, Lake Co., Jepson; Ft. 

 Bragg, W. C. Mathews; Humboldt Bay, Chandler 1130; Shackelford Creek, w, Siskiyou, 

 Butler 1741; Sisson, Jepson. Sierra Nevada: Goose Lake, Justin <J- Bruce; Prattville, T. 

 Brandegee ; Bear Valley, Nevada Co,, Jepson; Placer Co,, Ilordy; Silver Lake, Amador Co,, 

 Han.'ien 552; Hetch-Hetchy, A. L. Grant 882; Yosemite Valley, Hall 9086; Dinkey Creek, 

 Fresno Co,, Hall <$• Chandler 400. Southern California: Little Bear Valley, San Bernardino 

 Mts., Cliandler. 



Refs, — Ranunculus flammula L, Sp, PI, 548 (1753), type European, Var, intermcdius 

 and var, repians Gray, Syn, Fl. l':26-27 (1895), as to U, S, Pacific Coast plants. The leaves 

 are very varial)le in form, even in one collection or on one individual, and the ample Californian 

 material beforo us must be taken as one thing, Jl. intermedins Heller, BuU, Torr, Club, 

 25:580 (1898), as to Pacific Coa.st plants, 



R. SAMOLIFOLIUS Greene, Pitt. 3:13 (1896), "liigljcr Sierra Nevada from Mt. Shasta 

 soutlnvard. " Stems half-reclining, leafy throughout, 1-flowered; leaves entire, oblauceolate, 

 long pctioled, 2 to 4 inches long, the cauline oval or obovoid (ex. char,). This may be nearer 

 R. hvdrocharoides (Jrav than R. flammula L. 



Fig. 106, Ranunculus alis- 

 MAEPOLlus Geyer var, 

 ALISMELLUS Gray, Plant, 

 X V2. 



