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‘98 Muhlenbergia, Volume 3 
THE FLORA OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, 
CALIFORNIA—V 
By A. A. HELLER 
Unless a statement is made to the contrary, all the species 
‘mentioned in this paper may be found on the ridges west of 
Los Gatos, where they have been observed and collected by my- 
self. 
‘ APRIL— Continued 
RANUNCULUS HEBECARPUS H. & A. 
Rather common in thickets or on wooded stream banks, but 
probably often overlooked on account of its small size and in- 
significant flowers. Our particular plant has been called var. 
pusillus Brewer and Watson. It is an aberrant member of the 
genus, commonly having but a single petal, four spreading 
sepals, four stamens, and six pistils. Professor Greene has given 
a very interesting account of this plant in the Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club, 14: 116. 1887. I have collected it 
about Los Gatos and at the foot of Mt. Hamilton in this county, 
near Santa Rosa in Sonoma county, and in the Sierra foothills 
back of Chico, Butte county. 
PLATYSTEMON LEIOCARPUS F. & M. 
What is apparently this species according to Fedde (P. 
emarginatus Greene), was found in grassy places on the ridge 
southwest of Los Gatos in 1904, at an elevation of at least 1800 
feet. The type of emarginatus was collected on “foothills near 
Stanford University,” and our plant seems to be the same. If 
Fedde’s determination is correct, the type of dezocarpus must 
have been collected on the hills at some distance from the sea, 
and not on Bodega Point where nearly all the seeds and speci- 
mens collected by the Russians were obtained. 
CARDAMINE OLIGOSPERMA Nutt. 
This was collected on stream banks back of Alum Rock 
Park, growing in wet shaded places in the woods. It is a small 
