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PHYTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND AMENDMENTS.—L 
By Epwarp L. GRrEeEne. 
KuMLIENtIA CooLeyz (Rose), Greene, Eryth. ii.193. Very 
fine flowering specimens of this Alaskan rarity are now 
before me, and suggest some amendment of Mr. Rose’s origi- 
nal account of the species.1 There is nothing in his des- 
cription of the sepals to indicate that these differ from those 
of ordinary Ranunculus; nor does the figure at all represent 
their real character. They are not, as supposed, green and 
concave and of oval outline. They are more elongated, quite 
as flat as those of a Caltha, and of a dull brownish-yellow; 
are distinctly narrowed at base, at least one of them approxi- 
mating the unguiculate character that marks the petals; in- 
deed, there is a not indistinct transition from sepals to petals. 
The petals instead of being smaller than the sepals are 
rather larger, the expanded flower measuring about an inch 
across. The claw of each petal is relatively larger and nar- 
rower than the figure indicates, and is almost tubular by 
involution of the two margins, somewhat after the manner of 
the lower part of the ligule of a composite. In characters of 
the flower, therefore, as well as in foliage and the whole 
general appearance of the young and vigorous plant, there is a 
close approach to the genus Trollius; and it in every way 
conforms, better than the original figure led me to think, to 
the type of Kumlienia. 
My friend, Mr. M. W. Gorman, to whom I am indebted for 
the specimens now in hand, obtained them on July 4th, 1894, 
from the margin of an alpine lake, on the shore of Bailey 
Bay, Alaska. He says this “was the only plant except 
Caltha biflora that I found at this date. The winter ice on 
the lake was still about 24 feet thick, and the snow from 5 to 
20 feet deep. I remarked that it resembled a small Caltha 
palustris.” _ 
1 Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium, i. 289, t. 22. 
Erytuza, Vol. IIL, No. 4, [1 April, 1895.] 
