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10. RANUNCULUS 



Leaves entire 1. R. alismaefolius 



Leaves lobed or palmately parted. 



Style stout and sharply recurved or hooked upon the mature achene. 



3. R. oxynotus 



Style slender subulate and usually straight or loosely coiled 



2. R. Eschscholtzii 



1. Ranunculus alismaefolius var. alismellus Gray, Proc. Am. 



Acad., vol. 7, p. 328. 1867. 

 E. alismellus Greene, Fl. Fran., p. 297. 1891. 



Type locality. ' ' Lake Tenaya and on Mount Dana, Sierra Nevada, 

 to the height of 12,000 feet." Bolander. 



Range. Pacific Coast from British Columbia to southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Zone. Canadian and Hudsonian. 



Specimens examined. "Webber Lake, Lemmon 1191 ; Soda Springs, 

 Nevada County, Jones 2485 ; near Summit, Heller 7010 ; Caple's Lakes, 

 8,500 feet, Hansen 554; Twin Lakes, Alpine County, 8,500 feet, 

 Hansen 1306 ; Pyramid Peak, W. S. Atkinson in 1900 ; Donner Lake, 

 Dudley, June 7, 1893; Mt. Tallac, near Gilmore Lake, 8,500 feet, 

 Smiley 368 ; Lake of the Woods meadow, Tahoe, 8,200 feet, Smiley 55 ; 

 Glen Alpine trail to Mt. Tallac, 9,000 feet, Abrams 4851; Ostrander's, 

 above Yosemite, Bolander 6258 ; Tuolumne meadows, 8,500 feet, 

 Smiley 735; Lake Tenaya, Yosemite, 8,100 feet, Smiley 687; Dana 

 Fork meadows, Yosemite, at 9,900 feet, Smiley 857 ; Lake Tenaya to 

 Mt. Dana, 12,000 feet, Brewer 1684; Tuolumne meadows, moist pine 

 forest, 8,000 feet, R. A. Ware 2607c; Snow Valley, Ormsby County, 

 Nevada, 2,460-2,615 m., Baker 1280 ; near Mineral King, Coville and 

 Funston 1567 ; Summit Lake, Tulare County, 12,000 feet, Culbertson 

 (B4351) ; Hockett's meadows, Tulare County, Culbertson (B,4470) ; 

 Chagoopa Creek meadows, Tulare County, 10,000 feet, Dudley 2229 ; 

 meadows near Kaweah Peaks, 12,000 feet, Dudley 2139. 



2. Ranunculus Eschscholtzii Schlecht., Animad. Ranunc., vol. 2, 



p. 16. 1820. 



Type locality. "Hab. in insulis Unalaschca et St. Georgii." 



Range. Aleutian Islands to California and in the Rockies to Colo- 

 rado. 



Zone. Arctic-alpine. 



Specimen examined. Mt. Goddard, 11,000 feet, Hall and Chandler 

 712. 



