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olate, others obovate, spreading: petals about 10, with nar- 
rowly oblong or oblong-linear blade tapering to a distinct 
claw of a half-line long or more, the pit and scale at its 
summit; the whole corolla, but usually not the calyx, per- 
sistent along with the mature fruit: achenes glabrous, nar- 
rowly and inequilaterally obovoid, little compressed, beaked 
by the stout and slightly recurved style, not very numerous 
and forming only depressed globose or even a hemispheri- 
cal head. 
Common “ on sites of old snow banks,” at 11,500 feet in 
the mountains of southern Colorado, C. F. Baker, 28 Aug., 
1899. Very large, for an alpine member of the Flammula 
subgenus of Ranunculus, and remarkable for its long narrow 
and distinctly unguiculate petals. 
R.AnRNogLOssus. Fleshy-fibrous roots as in the preceding, 
but the plants crowded and forming a tuft, the stems 
seldom exceeding 6 inches in height; elliptic and elliptie- 
lanceolate leaves entire, somewhat feather-veined and the 
veinlets anastomosing, the petioles of even the radical shorter 
thau the blade and dilated below into a broad scarious 
sheathing base: flowers rather numerous, large for the 
plant, the petals 5 only, obovate, obtuse, commonly persist- 
ent, as also are thesepals: achenes many, crowded, forming 
a dense globose head. 
Subalpine in the Ruby Mountains, eastern Nevada; col- 
lected by the writer, 20 July, 1896. The plant is next of 
kin to R. alismellus of the Californian Sierra, but that, as I 
learned by observation in the field after having published it, 
has its own peculiar mode of root propagation, by virtue of 
which theslender flowering plants and their young and sterile 
offspring form a complete turf along the fertile margins of 
streamlets. 'Theleaves are characterized by three pretty 
distinct parallel nerves; and the whole habit is most unlike 
that of this species of eastern Nevada, which grows in 
bunches in otherwise barren clayey soil on mountain sides 
whence the snows have lately receded in July. 
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