500 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



finely dissected than in that species : petals white or rose-purple 

 without: akenes flat, not inflated, very small, only i to i l / 2 lines 

 long. Rocky places in woods of Utah. 



96. R. glacialis LINN. Sp. PI. 553. 1753. 



Roots fibrous : plant low : lower leaves petioled, others ses- 

 sile and involucrate, all 3-parted or trifid and again lobed ; up- 

 per ones often villous : flowers i to 3, white or reddish; petals 

 obovate to cuneate, blunt ; sepals shorter, very densely hairy. 

 Summer. Mountains of Europe, Arctic regions, Greenland. 

 Garden 45, p. 28 ; 48 p. 501. 



KUMLIENIA GREENE, Bull. Calif. Acad. i : 337. 1886. 

 (Named for the late botanist, Prof. Kumlien of Wisconsin.) 



Low perennials ; stem nearly leafless, i-2-flowered : leaves 

 mostly radical, rounded and lobed: sepals 5 to 7, white, con- 

 spicuous; petals 5, small, oval, fleshy, with nectariferous pit 

 and slender claw ; stamens and pistils many : akenes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, compressed, membranaceous, and utricular, ob- 

 scurely i-nerved on the sides; style hooked, persistent; seed 

 much shorter than the cell. A monotypic genus of narrow dis- 

 tribution. Of it Greene remarks that it has the general aspect 

 of Ranunculus ; flowers of Caltha, with nectary-like petals of 

 Helleborus, the utricular fruit peculiar. This is section PSEUDA- 

 PHANTOSTEMMA of Gray, under Ranunculus. 



K. hlstricula GREENE, 1. c. 



Ranunculus hystriculus GRAY, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 328. 

 1868. 



Stems 4 to 10 inches high, bearing i or 2 3-lobed leaves : 

 radical leaves round-reniform, with 5 broad rounded lobes ; 

 petioles long : flowers i or 2 : akenes 3 lines long including the 

 style. April to June. Portland, Ore., east to the Sierra Neva- 

 das. Rare. 



FICARIA HUBS. Fl. Angl. 213. 1762. 

 (Latin for fig, referring to the thickened roots.) 



Perennial herbs with tuberous roots ; plants all glabrous ; 

 stems branched or simple : leaves petioled, entire or toothed, cor- 

 date : flowers large, solitary, either axillary or terminal ; sepals 

 3 to 5, deciduous; petals about 8 (7 to 12), yellow, or red at 



