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4975. North Coast Eanges: Trinity Summit, Jepson 2106; South Yollo Bolly, Jepson. South- 

 ern California: Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3693; Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2405. 

 Eefs. RANUNCULUS ALISMAEFOLIUS Geyer; Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 14:289 (1879) ; Geyer's 

 Idaho material at Kew (Herb. Benth.) is taken by us as the type; we noted while at Kew that 

 it has an excellent match in Abrams 579, Paradise Creek, Latah Co., Ida. E. bolanderi Greene, 

 Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:58 (1886), type loe. Long Valley, central 

 Mendocino Co., Bolandcr 4730. Var. HARTWEGii\Jepson. E. 

 hartwegi Greene, Erythea, 3:45 (1895), based on E. alismae- 

 folius, var. Benth. PI. Hartw. 295 (1848), type loe. Bear 

 Valley, Nevada Co.., Hartweg 1627; (in Sierran specimens 

 the petioles and stems may be hairy or glabrous, even on the 

 same plant). Var. ALISMELLUS Gray, Proe. Am. Aead. 7:327 

 (1868), type loe. Yosemite Park (Lake Tenaya and Mt. Dana, 

 Bolander). E. alismellus Greene, Fl. Fr. 297 (1892). 



4. R. lemmonii Gray. Perennial ; stems scape-like, 

 4 to 7 inches high, these and the leaves from a small 

 short or globose rootstock bearing numerous stoutish 

 fibres ; scapes glabrous, simple or 3-branched near the 

 ground or midway, with a pair of opposite bracts 

 or leaves below the middle ; leaves lanceolate, pilose, 

 I 1 2 to 31/2 inches long, drawn down to petioles as 

 long or nearly (and strongly dilated at base) ; flowers 

 6 to 9 lines broad, solitary on the scape or its scape- 

 like branches; petals 5, rarely 6 or 7, obovate or 

 oblong; achenes in a globose head, very turgid, 

 minutely pubescent, the beak very short. 



Dry plains or valleys in the mountains, eastern 

 slope of the Sierra Nevada in Sierra and Nevada cos., 

 5000 feet. May. Very nearly related to R. alismae- 

 folius var. hartwegii. 



Locs. Sierra Valley; Truckee, Sonne. 



Ref. RANUNCULUS LEMMONII Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 10:68 (1874), type loe. Sierra Valley, 

 Lemmon. 



Fig. 106. RANUNCULUS ALIS- 

 MAEFOLIUS Geyer var. 

 ALISMELLUS Gray. Plant, 

 X %. 



5. R. flammula L. SPEARWORT. Perennial ; stems slender or almost filiform, 

 decumbent or creeping, rooting at the nodes, 3 to 13 inches long ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, linear- or oblong-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, entire, ^ to 1% inches long, 

 tapering into petioles !/o to 2V> inches long, or sometimes sessile ; flowers 2 to 5 

 lines broad, terminating leafy stems or naked scape-like peduncles 1 to 2 inches 

 high ; achenes comparatively few, thick, less than i/o to 1 line long, the beak 

 short. 



Margins of lakes or shallow slow meadow-streamlets: North Coast Ranges; 

 Sierra Nevada at middle altitudes ; San Bernardino Mts. July. 



Locs. North Coast Ranges: Pt. Reyes, Jepson 1167; Mt. Hanna, Lake Co., Jepson; Ft. 

 Bragg, W. C. Mathews; Humboldt Bay, Cliandler 1130; Shackelford Creek, w. Siskiyou, 

 Butler 1741; Sisson, Jepson. Sierra Nevada: Goose Lake, Austin $ Bruce; Prattville, T. 

 Brandcgee ; Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepsan; Placer Co., Hardy; Silver Lake, Amador Co., 

 Hansen 552; Hetch-Hetchy, A. L. Grant 882; Yosemite Valley, Hall 9086; Dinkey Creek, 

 Fresno Co., Hall $ Chandler 400. Southern California: Little Bear Valley, San Bernardino 

 Mts., Chandler. 



Refs. RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA L. Sp. PI. 548 (1753), type European. Var. intermcdius 

 and var. reptans Gray, Syn. FL ! 1 :26-27 (1895), as to U. S. Pacific Coast plants. The leaves 

 are very variable in form, even in one collection or on one individual, and the ample Californian 

 material before us must be taken as one thing. E. intennedius Heller, Bull. Torr. Club, 

 25:580 (1898), as to Pacific Coast plants. 



R. SAMOLIFOLIUS Greene, Pitt. 3:13 (1896), "higher Sierra Nevada from Mt. Shasta 

 southward." Stems half -reclining, leafy throughout, 1-flowered; leaves entire, oblanceolate, 

 long-petioled, 2 to 4 inches long, the'cauline oval or obovoid (ex. char.). This may be nearer 

 R. hydrocharoides Gray than R. flammula L. 



