34 RANUNCULACE.^. Ranunculus. 



in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 22; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 372. R. recurvatus, var. Nelsoni, 

 DC. Syst. i. 290; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 23. R. forma prima Si forma secunda, Sclilecht. 

 Auimad. Ranuuc. ii. 28, under /?. recurvatus. R. occidentalis (excl. var. canus) & R. Nel- 

 sonii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 374. R. Schlechtendalii, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 21, as to 

 plant tliere described, but not the plant of Sclilecht. (R. fascicularis) to which he referred 

 it, and which was the type. R. Eiseni, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. vii. 115, and R. occi- 

 dentalis, var. Eiseni, Gray, 1. c. (in its principal part), is only a short-styled form of this 

 species. — Open woods and low ground, northern Rocky Mountains to the Alaskan coast 

 and islands, and southward to the borders of California, first coll. by Nelson, then by 

 Chamisso. Nuttall's original is low, rather slender and naked-stemmed, small-leaved, but 

 pretty large-flowered, the oblong or narrowly obovate petals 4 lines long : carpels glabrous 

 with often a few bristly liairs toward the back. 



Var. Rattani, Gkay, 1. c. Like the typical form ; but akenes papillose-roughened as 

 well as densely hispidulous. — On the Klamath, N. California,! Rattan, witli short and stout 

 strongly hooked beak ; Josephine Co., S. W. Oregon, Howell, with more slender beak and 

 sparser hairs on the akene. 



Var.* robustus, Gkay. A span to a foot or more high, Avith stout stems, ample leaves 

 (2 to 4 inches in diameter), and large flowers : petals broadly obovate, 4 to 6 lines long: 

 akenes even 2 lines in diameter and numerous in the head. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 373. 

 Here Sclilechtendal's "forma prima " with "flures mac/ni," and the type of R. occidentalis, 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 374. — Alaskan Islands, especially Unalaska, Attar, Kyska, 

 &c., Harrington, Dall, &c. 



R.* Turneri, Greene. Habit and foliage much as in the taller and stouter forms of the pre- 

 ceding, but flowers lai-ger, 9 to 15 lines in breadth, loug-peduucled : carpels more numer- 

 ous, 50 to 60 in a head and tipped with very strongly circinate-revolute styles. — Pittonia, ii. 

 296, & Erythea, iii. 54, excl. syn. R. recurvatus, var. robustus. — Northern Alaska, on the 

 Porcupine River, Turner. This species may perhaps belong to the next subdivision, but the 

 mature akenes necessary to decide this point are not at liand. 



2. Broad-hook-styled ; with recurved-hooked styles shorter than the ovary, broad and flat, 

 stigmatic for much of their length, wholly persistent in a very strong and flat triangular 

 or gladiate hooked beak, which is much shorter than the flat akene and confluent with its 

 sharp margin : radical leaves divided or nearly so, petals only 5. 



R. acriformis, Gray. Strict and slender, a foot high, hirsute with short mostly appressed 

 pubescence : leaves all palmately or pedately 3-5-parted or divided into narrow 2-3-cleft 

 segments and lobes, the latter lanceolate or linear and mostly entire : petals orbicular- 

 obovate, a quarter inch long, hardly double the length of the spreading calyx : akenes over 

 a line long, with curved beak of half its length. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 374. R. acris 

 Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 18 (partly), & Loud. Journ. Bot. vi. 66. — Eastern part of Rocky 

 Mountains in Brit. Am., lat. 58°, Drummond ; Wyoming, Parry (distrib. as A', affinis). Wind 

 River, Forwood, and near Cheyenne, ^ Greene, the latter coll. July, 1872. 



R. canus, Benth. Erect or ascending, robust, a foot or two high, soft villous with white 

 liairs when young, at length commonly green and sparsely villous or glabrate : leaves mostly 

 3-divided and the middle or all the leaflets petiolulate, all more or less cuneate and 2-3-cleft 

 with the lol)es incised : petals obovate, half inch or le.ss in length, fully twice the length of 

 the reflexed soft-villous calyx : akenes fully 2J lines long, the broad and hooked beak less 

 than a line long. — PI. Hartw. 294; Gray, 1. c. R. Californicus, var. canus. Brew. & Wats. 

 Bot. Calif, i. 8. R. occidentalis, var. ca)ius, Gray, 1. c. viii. 374. — Low grounds, valley of 

 the Sacramento, California, Hartweg (in flower), probably near Chico, where now coll. in 

 flower and fruit by Mrs. Bidwell.^ 



1 Mendocino County, Calif,, Blankinship, and reported from Mt. Hamilton, Central Calif., by 

 Greene, Erythea, i. 88. 



2 And on the Laramie River, Crandall. 



3 The type of this species is silky-lanate throughout and appears to be an unusual form not since 

 rediscovered. Prof. Greene (Erythea, ii. 189) believes the greener sub-glabrate form a distinct 

 species, which lie has called R. hesperozys. He adduces, however, no satisfactory differences other 

 than the more deciduous indumentum. 



