SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 3 



lection in the note attached to Ko. 19. Kear Long's Peak, June 1, at 

 9,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 



RANUNCULUS CYMBALARIA, Pursh. Common in marshy 'ground 

 on the plains and in the mountains. Hall & Harbour, 11 ; Dr. Smith ; 

 B. H Smith ; Porter ; Brandegee ; Coulter. 



EANUNCULUS AFFINIS, E. Br. Radical leaves petioled, usually 

 pedately multitid ; cauline ones subsessile, digitate, with broadly linear 

 lobes : stem erect, few-flowered ; carpels with recurved beaks in oblong 

 cylindrical heads, more or less pubescent throughout. Yar. LEIOCARPUS, 

 Trautv. Lower leaves usually lobed or crenate ; from 8 / -12 / high ; 

 flowers small ; carpels smooth or somewhat pubescent. Hall & Harbour, 

 15; Vasey, 13; B. H Smith; Porter; Coulter. 



Yar. CARDIOPHYLLUS, Gr. (JR. cardiophyllus, Hook.) Hirsutely pubes- 

 cent, radical leaves round-cordate, undivided or many cleft ; cauline 

 ones palmately many-cleft ; flower V in diameter. Hall & Harbour, 16. 



EANUNCULUS KUTTALLII, Gr. (Cyrtorrhynca ranunculina, Xutt. Fl. N. 

 A w.l, p. 26.) Gra, y's En. Hall & Harbo ur, p. 56. Note. Smooth, 6'-8' high ; 

 root fascicled ; radical leaves biternately divided, segments 3-5 parted, 

 lobes oblong or linear, sometimes 2-3 cleft ; branches subtended by a 

 small leaf, few-flowered ; petals spatulate, yellow, a little longer than 

 the broader sepals, which are also yellow, thickened above the base - f 

 style long, slender, incurved ; carpels rather few, collected into a globose 

 head, glabrous, cylindrical-oblong, grooved, many-nerved ; stigma sub- 

 ulate. JQTrt/f & Harbour, 13. Near Long's Peak, June 1, at 9,000 feefc 

 altitude, Coulter. 



EANUNCULUS SCELERATUS, L. Platte Eiver, Hall. Cherry Creek f 

 Dr. Smith. Bear Creek Caiion, Coulter. 



EANUNCULUS MULTEFIDUS, Pursh., var. REPENS, Hook. Creeping; 

 leaves all round-reuiforin, palmately 3-5 cleft. Wilson's Creek, July,. 

 Brandegee. 



EANUNCULUS HYPERBOREUS, Eottb., var. NATANS, C. A. Meyer. Stem 

 filiform, creeping; leaves glabrous, petioled, 3 cleft; lobes oval-oblong, 

 divaricate, the lateral ones somewhat 2 cleft, middle one entire; sheaths 

 bi-auriculate at base; heads of carpels globose, compact; style want- 

 ing. Much resembles forms of the preceding, but distinguished by the 

 absence of styles. In swamps at middle elevations. Hall & Harbour, 

 12. Clear Creek, Coulter. 



EANUNCULUS PYGM^US, Wahl. Stem erect, never creeping, l'-2' 

 high, 1-flowered; leaves glabrous, 3-5 cleft; radical ones petioled, cau- 

 line ones sessile; calyx glabrous, longer than the somewhat reflexed pet- 

 als ; heads oblong; carpels subglobose, not margined at the back, pointed 

 with a short hooked style. Mount Evans, on dry ground, at 13,000 feet 

 altitude, Greene. 



EANUNCULUS NIVALIS, E. Br., var. ESCHSCHOLTZII, Watson. (R. 

 Eschscholtzu. Schlecht.) Radical leaves 3-parted, the divisions lobed, 

 ciliate ; stem about 1-flowered ; calyx hirsute, with whitish hairs, shorter 

 than the petals; style shorter than the achenia. Hall & Harbour, 14; 

 Vasey, 17 ; Parry. 



EANUNCULUS ADONEUS, Gr. Gray's En. PL Hall & Harbour, p. 17. 

 Xote. Low, sparsely villous, becoming glabrous; root fasciculate, fibrous; 

 stems branching from the base, 1-3 leaved above, sometimes erect, very 

 simple, 1-flowered, but sometimes sarmentose-decumbent, and 2-3 flow- 

 ered; leaves twice pedately parted, segments narrowly linear; petioles 

 scarious, base dilated; peduncle short; corolla guldens-yellow, often ex- 



