RANUNCULACE.E. 3 



ferent form and texture, being much firmer and scarcely 

 ucculent, the lowest leaves narrowly ovate-lanceolate, those 

 next succeeding them linear-elliptical, the blades about 1 

 inches long, the petioles about as long, the mostly solitary 

 cauline like the others but closely sessile, all vivid-green 

 and reticulate-venulose above, pale beneath, even whitish, 

 all perfectly entire; scapiform peduncles decumbent, simple 

 and 1-flowered, or with one or two 1-flowered branches: 

 calyx and corolla not seen: head of achenes ovate; achenes 

 pubescent, the body suborbicular, the beak rather prominent? 

 curved. 



At Cerro Summit above Cimarron, 7 June, n. 50; occur- 

 ing on open hillsides, but past flowering. 



In addition to the above, the collection exhibits the 

 following less noteworthy Ranunculi: R. reptans, Linn., n. 

 464; R. inamoenus, Greene, nn. 235, 350; R. Macounii, Britt., 

 n. 562, and R. Macauleyi, Gray, n. 319. 



BATRACHIUM TRICHOPHYLLUM, Bossch., n. 320. 



CYRTORHYNCHA RUPESTRIS. Stems very slender and few- 

 flowered, more than a foot high; biternate foliage ample 

 and of more than half the height of the stems; flowers 

 mostly only 5 or 6, on long slender pedicels and very small: 

 petals about 5, variable, some obovate and sessile, others 

 (transitional to stamens) with smaller blade and long claw: 

 achenes few, short and of almost elliptic outline, the ribs 

 prominent, but more or less confluent and inclined to form 

 narrow reticulations. 



On moist cliffs in the Black Canon, 20 June, n. 198. An 

 excellent new species of an interesting genus, this has the 

 aspect of C. neglecta, of northern Colorado, but not at all 

 either its flowers or fruits. 



