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That any of these forms are to be referred to R. occiden- 
talis, Nutt., is a view which no man acquainted with the 
plants can entertain. He who asserts it should be ready to 
maintain that the eastern R. recurvatus may be relegated to 
R. hispidus as a variety; for that were quite as reasonable. 
Both R. occidentalis and R. Bongardi have their own 
extremes of variation, each within its own good specific 
imits. 
Ranunoutus Netsonu, A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 374 
in part. R. recurvatus var. Nelsonii, DC. Syst. i. 290. To 
this species Gray referred, twenty years ago, the plants which 
he long afterwards designated as a var. robustus of R. 
occidentalis, namely my R. Turneri. But it is evident that 
he never at any time took the pains of looking up, while in 
England, the type specimens of R. Nelsonii; probably con- 
tenting himself with an inference that Bongard’s Alaskan 
plant, which he did see, must be the same. Nelson’s speci- 
mens, which DeCandolle saw in the herbarium of Sir J oseph 
Banks, and which are the only type specimens of the species, 
are now in the herbarium of the British Museum, and they 
represent something so very different from my R. Turneri 
that I am unable to reduce my species to R. Nelsonii. This 
is a plant with stout somewhat fleshy stem, very hirsute; the 
leaves are ample and numerous, the peduncles, as DeCandolle 
described them, so short as not to surpass the leaves to which 
they are axillary, until after the flowering, when they are of 
course somewhat elongated. The flowers, though much 
smaller than in R. Turneri, do not at all approach those of 
R. Bongardi. The only other specimens which I can refer 
to R. Nelsonii have been collected in Alaska, some by 
Kellogg, others by Harrington. Some of these are in fruit, 
and exhibit a rather large achene, with triangular-subulate 
hooked beak. 
Tellima racemosa. Heuchera racemosa, 8. Wats. Proc. 
Am. Acad. xx. 365. This plant, as being a second species of 
