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NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.— IX. 



By Edward L. Gkeene. 



Ranunculus hesperoxys. Herbage deep green, glabrate, 



only the young and growing parts yillous-cauescent: stem 



feet high, freely branching and many-flowered: 



erect, 1^ 



texture 



leaves neany au m » i.o.kxl^^^ — -, r-- ,,/.,,., 

 and rounded outline, deeply parted and subdivided into many 

 somewhat lanceolate acute segments: petals round-obovate, 

 usually 5 only : achenes large, flat, with short triangular- 



subulate hooted beak. . 



This is the plant which, in the Flora Franci^cana and m 

 the 3fanuah I called R. canus, for the reason hat it seemed 



to 



Mr 



plant Known to uuuui. lu i/^v. --t, — - 



lis type. But baTiDg now Been that type, I am P™P»-f '» 



assert that B. canus has not yet been rediscovered^ Nothing 



at all resembling Hartweg's plant is known to CaWornian 

 botanists of the present time. 



Harveyi 



'wy 



Ranunculus Harveyi. 



Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 372. 



IZrs of this plant, as constituting the only difference 

 between it and B. ahorlivus, is a very imperfect and mis 

 leading account to give to it. The achenes are """^ krge;. 



and no? half as numerous as in B. aborUvus; '»°«°;« ^^^ 



form an exactly globose head, whereas those of B. abortwus 



proper form an ovoid one. But the Jf f^.ttllt'^^^r L 

 B. Harvey 



merely coarse-fibrous. 



f rAVv 7^^ \^ slender and of delicate texture, 

 to stem and foliage it is sienaei auu „i„^„f 



while its roots are thick and fleshy to a degree almost 



rpproaching the tuberous. The roots of B. aborhvus are 



Delphinium «eyeri. Bool woody-fibrous • stem stoutish 

 10 to 20 inches high: leaves mostly near the base of the 



stem and forming a considerable tuft, but in taller specimens 



Ebiibisa, Vol. n., No. 12, [1 December, 1894.] 



