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Drymaria sperguloides A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad, (II.) 4: 11 (1849). 
Silene antirrhina L. Sp. Pl. 419 (1753). 
Silene laciniata Greggit (A. Gray) 8S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. 1: 108 (1878). 
RANUNCULACE. 
Anemone cylindrica A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 221 (1836). Mrs. Hoyt, 
Ft. Apache. 
Anemone sphenophylla Poepp. Fragm. Syn. 27 (1833). 
Aquilegia chrysanha A. Gray, Proc. Am, Acad 8: 621 (1873). 
Clematis Bigelovit Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: Pt. 4, 61 (1857). Mrs. Hoyt, 
Ft. Apache; Dr. Wilcox, Ft. Huachuca, 
Clematis dioica L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 765 (1762). 2? Specimens of the stami- 
nate plant, referred to this species with hesitation. It is apparently 
otherwise unknown from the United States. 
Clematis Drummondii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 9 (1839). 
Clematis ligusticifolia Nutt. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1:9 (1888). 
Cyrtorhyncha Cymbalaria (Pursh) Britton Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 161 (1894. ) 
Delphinium Carolinianum Walt FI. Car. 155 (1788). 
Delphinium scaposum Greene; Coult. Bot. Gaz. 6: 156 (1881). Mrs. 
Hoyt, Ft. Apache. 
Delphinium scopulorum A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 2: 9 (1853). 
Myosurus cupulatus 8. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 362 (1882). 
Ranunculus Arizonicus Lemmon; A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 370 
(1886). 
Ranunculus macranthus Scheele, Linnea, 21: 585 (1848). 
Thalictrum Fendlert Engelm. A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. (II.) 4:5 (1849). 
BERBERIDACE., 
Berberis Aquifolium Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 219 (1814). B. repens Lindl. 
Bot. Reg. ¢t. 1176 (1828). It was to the low-stemmed plant of the 
Plains and Rockies, not to the tall shrub of the Pacific Slope, that 
Pursh applied this name. The name to be taken for the latter is 
BERBERIS NuTKANA (DC.) Kearney. = Mahonia Aquifolium Nut- 
kana DC, Prodr. 1: 108 (1824). 
Berberis Fremontii Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 30 (1859). Mrs. Hoyt, Ft. 
Apache; Dr. Ebert, San Carlos. 
BERBERIS WiLcoxtt Kearney n. sp. Whole plant smooth and glabrous; 
stem woody, prostrate (?), branched ; bark reddish-brown ; leaves 
pinnate, 12-16 cm. long from the base of the petiole to the apex of 
the terminal leaflet ; leaflets 5-7, the lateral ones sessile, the ter- 
minal on a stalk 10-25 mm. long, articulated by the base of the mid- 
rib to the rhachis, which is itself articulated at the points where the 
leaflets are attached, 2.5-5.5 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, oblong-ovate 
to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate and spine-tipped or truncate at apex, 
rounded or wedge-shaped and (the lateral) unequal at base, irregu- 
larly and coarsely dentate with spreading, rigid, spiny teeth (7-11 
in number), upper surface green and shining, with a deep crimson 
spot at base of midrib, lower surface pale but hardly glaucous ; 
veins pinnate, much reticulated, prominent on both surfaces; flowers 
in short, dense clustered racemes, arising from scaly axillary or 
terminal buds, each articulated to a slender pedicel which is dilated 
at summit, articulated to the rachis and subtended at base by a per- 
sistent, ovate, obtuse or acutish membranaceous bract; calyx and 
corolla bright yellow; fruit about 1 cm. long, dark blue, glaucous. 
