296 riTTONiA. 



Trelease seems to have escaped the responsibility of changing 

 the name, by assuming a heavier one, i. e., tbat of virtually 

 suppressing the species by guessing it a mere hybrid; but 

 be has not supported t]iat rather gratuitous proposition by 

 any facts ; and, what is still more strange, he has quite 

 gravely misrepresented my species by figuring for it a widely 

 different plant which he found in another herbarium than 

 mine ; all of which may be accounted for in some manner, no 

 doubt, though one can not see how, when it is knowni my type 

 specimens were in his liands, and there was nought to hinder 

 the fi^ruring from them. 



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EriLOBiUM MINUTU3I, Liudl. var. Biolettii. Very slender, 

 nearly or quite erect and only sparingly branching, 1 to 1^ 

 feet high: ccu'olla very minute (not so in the type) : pods on 

 very slender pedicels 1^ or 2 lines long; seeds minute, 

 clavate-obovate, very distinctly papillose-granulate. 



Collected beyond Mill Valley, southern slope of Mt. Tamal- 

 pais, May, 1892, by Mr. Bioletti. It seems probable that 

 more than two good varieties or subspecies are embraced 

 under E. minninni as now received. In what we take to be 

 the type, the seeds are twice as large as in the present plant, 

 and perfectly smooth, as well as of a different outline. Mr. 

 Bioletti's plant is remarkable for its tall growth, slender habit, 

 and very conspicuously slender-pedicellate nearly straight 

 capsules. These in the type are subsessile and strongly in- 

 curved (not ''recurved" as said in the original specific 

 character). 



Ranunculus Turneri. Stems stoutish, erect, 1 or 2 feet 



high, from a fascicle of fleshy-fibrous roots: petioles and 

 lower part of stem more or less hirsute: leaves broader than 

 long, the radical on long petioles, 3-parted, the lateral lobes 

 bifid, all incisely cleft: sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, hirsute, 

 spreading (not reflexeil) under the petals: corolla very large 

 (more than an inch broad), the 5 yellow petals broadly obovate, 

 very obtuse: pistils with long circinate styles. 



