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occidentalis geographically ; its nearest ally being var. Eisen? 
which, however, is of dry wooded hills, on the western slope 
of the Sierra only. 
RANUNCULUS OCCIDENTALIS, var. HowELLU.  Resembling 
the var. Hisenit in appearance, but the leaf-divisions more 
repeatedly and deeply cleft, and all the lower leaves canes- 
cent with a long appressed silky pubescence: achenes rather 
small, tipped with a slenderly subulate merely somewhat 
curved or almost straight elongated style. 
Dry hills near Ashland, Oregon, 1889; collected by Mr. 
Howell, who, familiar with genuine R. occidentalis, could not 
refer his plant to that species, but distributed it as being, in 
his opinion, probably R. canus. In character of achene it is 
very unlike R. occidentalis or any of. its subspecies. 
RANUNCULUS OCCIDENTALIS, var. BREVISTYLUS. Leaves 
thinnish and flacid, the whole plant appearing glabrous, 
only obscurely pubescent under a lens: petals oblong-obo- 
vate: achenes tipped with an extremely short recurved 
style. ; 
Shores of Yes Bay, Alaska, 1895, Mr. Howell. Petals 
broader than in other varieties or subspecies of R. occiden- 
talis; but from its foliage, and general aspect, the plant can 
not be referred elsewhere; though it may eventually prove 
to be a distinct species. 
Ranuncutus Popunaco, Greene, Eryth. iii. 19, has a 
synonym in R. Cusickii, Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. n. ser. v. 
615. Cusick’s number 1161 is also my type of the species. 
DELPHINIUM COGNATUM. Stems erect, simple, sparingly 
leafy, 2 feet high from a fascicle of elongated and slender 
almost fleshy-fibrous roots; herbage pale and glaucescent, 
the lower face of the cuneately parted leaves, and also the 
petioles, floral bracts, spur of the calyx and even the follicles 
more or less pilose-pubescent: raceme elongated and rather 
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