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7. — Ranunculus multifidus, var. ji. limosus. 



Creeping', partially submersed, all the leaves more or less reuiform iu outline, lower 

 ones dissected, the ultimate segments linear, upper ones palmately divided into angular 

 segments. 



R. Purshii a. Eichardson, Frankl. Jour., ed. 2, App., p. 23. 



R. Purshii Y&T. y. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., I., p. 15, t. 7, B., fig. 2. Torr. & Cir., Fl., I., p. 20. 



R. limosm. Nuttall, in T. & G. FL, I., p. 20. 



R. radicaus, fi- repens. liegel, Fl. Ost.-Siber., I., p. 45. 



R. miiltiftdus, var. /^. Watson, Bibl. Index, I., p. 20. 



Slave Lake, Cumberland House Fort, and Rocky Mountains. — Drummond in Hook., 

 Fl., 1. c. Touchwood Hills, IST. W. Territory, and in pools near Stuart Lake, British 

 Columbia. — Macoiin. 



8. — Ranunculus multifidus, var. y. repens, Watson. 



Creeping on mud, all the leaves roundish reniform, palmately divided into three or 

 five segments. 



R. multifidus y. repens. Watson, King's Rej)., V., p. 8. Bibl. Index, I., p. 20. 



R. Purshii ft. Richardson, 1. c. 



R. Purshii, var. Ô. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., p. 15, tab. Y. B., fig. 3. Torr. & Gr., Fl. N. Am., 

 I., p. 20. 



R. radicans. C. A. Meyer, in Ledebour's Fl. Altaica, II., p. 316. 



R. radicans, a. typicus. Regel, Fl. Ost.-Siber., I., p. 44. 



R. Purshii ft. lerresiris {suhglaber). Ledebour, Fl. Rossica, I., p. 35. 



R. Gmelini. Flora Sibirica, IV., t. 83, b. 



Bear Lake. — Richardson. Bay of Eschscholtz, on the western shore of extreme Arctic 

 America. — Chamisso. NearFliutou, Hastings Co., Ont., and on the great prairies. — Macoun. 

 Swamps, Foot Hills of Rocky Mountains. — Dr. G. 31. Daivson. 



9. — Ranunculus glacialis, Linnœus. 



Plant 3-8 inches long, stem about 1-flowered. Radical leaves petiolate, palmately 

 3-parted or 3-cleft, the lobes trifid, lobules thick, and somewhat obtuse. Cauline leaves 

 or bracts few and sessile. Calyx covered with brownish silky hairs. Petals roundish 

 emarginate at the apex, as long at the sepals, white with a purplish tin"-e. Achenes 

 compressed, margined. 



Ranunculus giacialis. Linn. Sp. PL, p. ^11. Biria, Hist. Renoncul, p. 34. DC. Prod., 

 I., p. 30. Torr. & Gr., FL I., pp. 16 and 358. Hook, f., Arct. PL, pp. 283 and 31l! 

 Durand, PL Kane II., p. 448. Watson, Bibl. Index, I., p. 19. Macoun, Cat., No. 44 b. 



R. Chamissonis. Schlechtend. Auimad., I., p. 12, t. 1. 



Found in East Greenland by the earliest and by all subsequent voyagers, but never 

 on the Baffin Bay side till Kane's expedition, when it was brought from North Proven 

 lat. *72" l!^.— Hook. fil. Fury Beach, Elwyn Inlet, Gulf of Boothnia.— C«/y^. A. H. Markham. 

 \cQ\&)ià.^Lindsay. Lapland, Swiss Alps, Pyrenees, Austria, Hungary. 



