New or Norewortuy SrkciEs. —XVVII. 
RANUNCULUS INAMGENUS. Green and appearing as if gla- 
brous, but sparsely hairy, the stoutish stems 6 to 12 inches 
high: radical short-petiolate leaves obovate-flabelliform, at 
summit either crenate-toothed or 3-lobed, the cauline usually 
quite sessile and once or twice ternately divided into ob- 
lanceolate segments: peduncles short and slender, often 3 to 
5 together and subumbellate: corolla 3 to 5 lines broad, the 
5 petals obovate-oblong: head of small pubescent achenes 
ovoid or short-cylindraceous, the linear receptacle white- 
hispid. 
Common in the whole Rocky Mountain region, at middle 
elevations, and hitherto erroneously treated as a variety of 
the arctic R. affinis. 
RawuNcuLUs GonMawr. Small and slender perennial, 
with a fascicle of thick but long and slenderly tapering 
fleshy-fibrous roots: leaves on almost filiform petioles 1 to 3 
inches long, the lamina broadly ovate, or deltoid-ovate, 
acute, coarsely few-toothed, 1 to $ in. long, only the petioles 
somewhat pilose-hairy : stems several, simple, prostrate at 
base, rooting and bearing leaves at 2 or 3 nodes, the ter- 
minal part naked, ascending and scapiform, bearing a soli- 
tary small flower: sepals spreading : petals 5, oblong, obtuse, 
twice the length of the sepals: achenes small, glabrous, 
moderately compressed, with a slender curved beak as long 
as the body. 
On moist banks at Cathedral Springs, Crater Lake, in 
southern Oregon, 22 Aug., 1896, collected by Mr. M. W. 
Gorman. 4A neat and very well marked new Ranuneulus, 
Prrronta, vol. III. — Pages 91-98 issued Nov. 9, 1896. 
