RANUNCULACEAF OF IOWA. 113 



Hitchcock report the species from Story county; Profs. 

 Bessey and Fink from Fayette county; Prof. Bessey from 

 Floyd county; and Mr. Cratty by letter reports the species 

 as rare in the woods at Estherville, Emmet county. 



Bessey, Contr. to the Flora of Iowa in Fourth Report Iowa Agr. Col., 

 p. 90, 1872; Arthur, Contr. to the Flora of Iowa, p. 5, 1876; Flora of 

 Floyd county in History of Floyd county, p. 310; Nagel and Haupt, Proc. 

 Davenport Acad, of Nat. Sciences, vol. 1, p. 154; Halsted, Bull. Iowa Agr. 

 Col., Nov., 1886, pp. 6, 37 and 48; Bull. Tor. Bot. Club, vol. 14, p. 119; Hitch- 

 cock, Trans. St. Louis Acad, of Science, vol. 5, p. 482; Fink, Proc. Iowa 

 Acad, of Sciences, vol. 4, p. 83; Fitzpatrick, Proc. Iowa Acad. of Sciences, 

 vol. 5, p. 108 and p. 134; Manual of the Flowering- Plants of Iowa, p. 2; 

 Britton and Brown, Illustrated Flora, vol. 2, p. 66; Barnes, Reppert and 

 Miller, Proc. Davenport Acad, of Nat. Sciences, vol. 8, p. 200; Gray and 

 Robinson, Synop. Fl. N. A., 1:14. 



Hepatica hepatica (L.) Karst. 



This species also commonly known as Liverleaf closely 

 resembles the preceding. It is distinguished by its rounded 

 or obtuse lobes of the leaves and involucre. Anemone 

 hepatica L,. Sp. PL, p. 538, 1753. Hepatica triloba Chaix 

 in Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph., vol. 1, p. 336, 1786. Hepatica 

 hepatica Karst. Deutsch. FL, p. 559, 1880-83. 



Prof. Bessey reports this species from Des Moines 

 and Fayette counties. Prof. Fink does not confirm Prof. 

 Bessey in his Spermaphyta of the Flora of Fayette, Iowa, 

 published in volume 4, Proc. Iowa Acad, of Sciences. He 

 says: itk H. triloba Chaix is frequently reported here, but 

 does not occur." Messrs. Nagel and Haupt report the 

 species from Scott county. This, however, is not confirmed 

 by Messrs. Barnes, Reppert and Miller in a subsequent 

 flora. Some leaves of this species are in the Burlington High 

 School collection but it is not apparent on which side of 

 the Mississippi river they were collected. Britton and 

 Brown refer this species to Iowa, but present evidence in- 

 dicates that it does not belong here. 



Bessey, Contr. to the Flora of Iowa in Fourth Rep. Iowa Agr. Col. 

 p. 90, 1872; Arthur, Contr. to the Flora of Iowa, p. 5, 1876; Nagel and 

 Haupt, Proc. Davenport Acad, of Nat. Sciences, vol. 1, p. 153; Britton 

 and Brown, Illustrated Flora, vol. 2, p. 65; Fitzpatrick, Manual of the 

 Flowering Plants of Iowa, p. 2. 



