76 



across, pedicellate ; pedicel erect-patent, glabrous, shorter than the flower. 

 Sepals elliptico-oblong, obtuse, concave, 3-nerved, thin, thinly pilosulate 

 on the back above, l|mm. long. Petals elliptical, retuso-emarginate, 

 cuneately attenuated to a claw, subflabellately loosely nerved, 2|mm. long. 

 Stamens a little longer than the sepals ; filament filiform, glabrous ; anther 

 ovato-oval. Pistil about 21 mm. long; ovary sessile, linear; style very 

 short ; stigma capitate. Siliqua (immature) linear, compressed, patent, 

 glabrous, 11mm. long, 1mm. broad, with a patent pedicel about 3 mm. in 

 length ; valves 1-nerved and loosely veined. Seeds (immature) sub-2- 

 seriate, oblong, wingless ; funicle filiform ; cotyledon accumbent. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Yarigadake near Mt. Shirouma {K. Tanaka\ 

 Aug. 1903). 



Ranunculus (Hecatonia) sulphureus Soland. var. altaicus Trautv.; 

 Maxim. Enum. PI. Mongol, n. 34. 



Ranunculus altaicus Laxm. (1774) ; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II. p. 325, et 

 Fl. Koss. I. p. 37. 



Raminculus altaicus a. typicus Kegel et Schmalh. in Act. Hort. Petrop. 

 V. p. 222. 



Ranunculus frigidus Willd. Sp. PI. II. (1799) p. 1312 ; Pers. Syn. 

 PI. II. p. 103 ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 35 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. II. p. 651 ; Kegel 

 PI. Radd. I. p. 49, non Schrank. 



Ranunculus sulphureus DC. Syst. Nat. I, p. 274, non Soland. 



Sepals fusco-pnbescent. Petals broad and subobcordate. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano: Mt. Yarigadake near Mt. Shirouma {K. Tanaha\ 

 Aug. 1903). 



New to the Flora of Japan. The Japanese form has the glabrous 

 gynophore. 



Ranunculus (Hecatonia) pygmaeus Wahlenb. (1812); DC. Syst. 

 Nat. I. p. 273, et Prodr. I. p. 35 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. II. p. 651 ; Chamisso 

 in Linnasa YI. p. 578; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. I. p. 17; Hook, et Am. Bot. 

 Beech. Voy. p. 121 ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. I. p. 36 ; Torr. et Gray Fl. N. Am. 

 I. p. 20 ; Gray Syn. Fl. N. Am. I. 1, p. 29 ; Britt. et Br. 111. Fl. N. U. S. 

 et Can. II. p. 76, fig. 1605. 



Ranuncuhis Sahinii K. Br. ; Hook. loc. cit. p. 17 ; Torr. et Gray loc. cit. 



