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25. R. lobbii Gray. LOBE'S BUTTERCUP. Annual; submersed leaves none, 

 or when present, few and as in R. aquatilis; floating leaves 6 to 9 lines broad, 

 divergently 3-parted into oblong or ovate lobes, the lateral lobes notched and 

 the middle one commonly entire, or, rarely, all notched ; stamens 5 to 10 ; petals 

 withering persistent ; style filiform, about 3 times the length of the ovary ; achenes 

 few (4 to 6), rugose, the mature ones commonly with minute black dots. 



Whitening the surface of shallow vernal pools: Alameda and Marin cos. to 

 Napa Valley and northern Sonoma. North to British Columbia. 



Locs. Berkeley Hills, Chandler 787; betw. Alpine Lake and Fairfax, Newlon 97a; Caza- 

 dero, Davy 1659; Healdsburg, Alice King ; Calistoga, Jepson; St. Helena, C. F. Raker 1997. 



Kefs. RANUNCULUS LOBBII Gray, Proc. Am. Aead. 21:364 (1886); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 202 (1901). E. hydrocharis f. lobbii Hiern. Jour. Bot. 9:66, pi. 114 (1871), type from 

 Oregon, Lobb. E. hederaceus var. Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. 1:5 (1876). 



14. KUMLIENIA Greene. 



Glabrous perennial with the leaves and 1-flowered scapes from a fascicle of 

 thickened or fleshy-fibrous roots. Leaves all basal, roundish, shallowly 3-lobed 

 and sparingly toothed, cordate or truncate at base. Sepals 5 or 6, white. Petals 

 5 or 6, minute, reduced to small yellow stiped nectaries. Achenes sub-follicular, 

 capitate, membranous, lanceolate, attenuate upward into a broadly subulate beak 

 hooked or coiled at the tip, 2 (or 3) -nerved on the sides, at least when dead 

 ripe. Seed fusiform, longitudinally multi-striate. Species 2, North America. 

 (T. L. Kumlien, one-time Professor of Natural History at Albion College.) 



1. K. hystricula Greene. Scapes 2 to 9 inches high ; leaves roundish in out- 

 line but broader than long, % to 2^ inches broad, on petioles % to 2 inches 

 long; flowers 5 to 7 (or 12) lines broad; sepals oval; nectaries spoon-shaped, 

 one line long; achenes weakly pubescent, 2 to 2 1 /*) lines long; seed % line long. 

 Clefts of rocks on moist canon sides, often within reach of flying spray: 

 Sierra Nevada at middle altitudes (1500 to 5000 feet). North to Oregon. Mar.- 

 June. 



Tax. Note. The flowers as seen in their native habitat are delicately engaging and some- 

 what suggestive of those of Anemone quinquefolia. While individuals are not uncommon in 

 favored spots, specimens are rare in herbaria. Quite dead ripe fruit is seldom collected. 

 Some very mature material from El Dorado Co. is available to us and on examining it we 

 find that the carpels in extreme age split roughly but spontaneously from the base upward 

 along the ventral and dorsal lines into two equal valves, thus releasing the single seed. Were 

 these carpels not capitate, they would, it seems certain, be termed follicles. Our species may 

 belong to the genus Oxygraphis Bunge, but the type of that genus is known to us only from 

 somewhat insufficient descriptions. 



Loca. Bear Creek Canon, Tulare Co., Purpus 1756; Yosemite Falls, Jepson 4261; Hetch- 

 Hetchy, A. L. Grant 1268; Columbia, A. L. Grant; Italian Bar, Stanislaus River, Jepson 6369; 

 Dardanelles Canon, Placer Co., Bolander 4630; North Fork American Eiver, K. Brandegee; 

 Bu'.te Co., Aitstin $ Bruce. 



Eefs. KUMLIENIA HYSTRICULA Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:337 (1886); Pitt. 3:188, pi. 2 

 (^897). Eanunculus hystriculus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:328 (1868), type spms. from Forest 

 H- 1 ! and Newcastle, Placer Co., Bolander. 



15. CLEMATIS L. VIRGIN'S BOWER. 



Stems woody below, climbing by aid of the petioles of the opposite compound 

 leaves. Peduncles axillary, bearing 1 to numerous flowers. Flowers (in ours) 

 polygamous. Sepals 4, valvate in the bud, white and petal-like. Petals none 

 (in ours). Stamens numerous. Achenes numerous in a head-like cluster, the 

 styles persistent as hairy or plumose tails, very conspicuous in fruit. Species 

 about 170, all continents. (Ancient name, from Greek klema, a twig.) 

 Peduncle bearing a eymose panicle of many flowers, the cymes leaf y-bracteate ; leaflets 5 to 7 ; 



achenes pubescent - ! C. ligusticifolia. 



Peduncle 1 to 3-flowered, with 2 braetlets below the middle. 



Leaflets 3 ; achenes pubescent 2. C. lasiantJia. 



Leaflets mostly 5 to 9 ; achenes glabrous - 3. C. pauciflora. 



