54 ERYTHEA. 
It will be seen by reference to Mr. Rose’s paper, that the 
earlier collectors of the plant obtained it not by low lake- 
margins, but on bleak rocky summits. Still I can not doubt 
that Mr. Gorman’s specimens represent the species collected 
by Mr. Funston and Miss Cooley. 
Ranunculus TurNnerI, Greene, Pitt. ii. 296. R. recur- 
vatus, Bong. Veg. Sitch. 123 in part: R. occidentalis var. robus- 
tus, A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxi, 373. While investigating, 
at Kew, the types of early Northwest American Ranunculi, 
I was much interested by the discovery that Bongard had 
referred two clearly distinct species to R. recurvatus; one of 
them a showy large-flowered plant, and quite the equivalent 
of my own rather newly published R. Turneri. My defini- 
tion of the species is to be corrected as to the sepals, which, 
in the fully developed flower are truly reflexed; and it may 
be completed by the statement that the achenes are broad 
and flat, with a short recurved beak, and that they are rather 
numerous, forming a somewhat depressed-globose head. 
The other species which the author aforesaid confused 
with R. recurvatus may well be called 
Ranunculus Bongardi. R. recurvatus, Bong. Veg. Sitch 
mainly, not of Poiret. R. occidentalis var. Lyallii, A. Gray, 
l.c. Although somewhat like the preceding in foliage and 
pubescence, there is the widest discrepancy between them in 
the size of the flowers, and the characters of the fruit. The 
present plant is quite like true R. recurvatus in the minute- 
ness of the petals; Sir William Hooker thought them abor- 
tive, with which opinion Bongard seems to have found it 
convenient to coincide; a view which has no solid foundation, 
The achenes are small, and are surmounted by a remarkably 
long circinate beak. The species is one of the commonest in 
Oregon, Washington, and southern Alaska, and runs into 
many varieties, or subspecies, One of the most pronounced 
of these is frequent southward even to the middle of the 
Californian Sierra. This may be called, var. tenellus—R. 
tenellus, Nutt. in T. & G. FI. 
