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OF COLORADO. 



perfect; filaments clavate; antbers elliptical, pointless; ovaries 8-10; 

 carpels compressed, dimidiate, not striate, thrice shorter than the per- 

 sistent style ; upper leaves sessile, 2-3 ternate, leaflets often small. 

 Subalpine. Hall & Harbour, 9; Parry, 1872. 



THALICTRUM FENDLERI, Eng. Plant. FendL, p. 5. Dioecious, glabrous ; 

 leaves petioled, or the uppermost sessile ; leaflets round-cordate, 3-lobed ; 

 filaments scarcely thickened at the apex; anthers long nmcronate ; 

 carpels sessile, obliquely ovate, compressed, sharp-edged, with 4-G 

 strong lateral ribs, three times longer than the recurved style. In 

 other respects like T. Cornuti. Common in the mountains at middle ele- 

 vations. Hall & Harbour, 8; Dr. Smith; Canby; Brandegee; Parry; 

 Porter; Coulter. On Mount Elbert, near Twin Lakes, at 12,000 feet 

 altitude. 



ANEMONE PATENS L., var. NUTTALLIANA, Gr. On the plains and 

 extending up into the mountains. Hall & Harbour, 4; B. H. Smith; 

 Meehan; Parry ; Porter ; Coulter. Gray's Peak, at 12,000 feet altitude 

 Redfield, 



ANEMONE CAROLINIANA, Walt. Hall & Harbour, 6. On the plains. 



ANEMONE PARVIFLORA, Michx. Near Mount Lincoln, July 15, 

 Coulter. 



ANEMONE MULTIFIDA, DC. Found in the mountains at middle eleva- 

 tions and upward. Hall & Harbour, 5; B. H. Smith; Porter; Parry; 

 Coulter. 



ANEMONE CYLINDRICA, Gr. Green Horn Mountains, June, 1873, 

 Brandegee. Idaho Springs, Redfield. 



ANEMONE PENNSYLVANIA, L. Common in the foot-hills. Dr. Smith; 

 B. H. Smith; Meehan; Brandegee; Coulter. Colorado Springs, Redfield. 



ANEMONE NARCISSIFLORA, L. Villous, leaves palmately 3-5 parted, 

 segments cuneiform, incisely many-cleft, lobes linear, acute ; involucre 

 somewhat similar, sessile, leaflets 3-5 cleft; pedicels several, um- 

 beled, leafless, 1-flowered ; flowers white ; carpels without tails, much 

 compressed, roundish oval, glabrous. Alpine. Hall & Harbour, 1 ; 

 Mount Lincoln at 13,500 feet altitude, July 9, Coulter. 



MYOSURTJS MINIMUS, L. South Park, Hall & Harbour, 20. 



EANUNCULUS AQUATILIS, L., var. TRIOHOPHYLLUS, Chaix. Common 

 in stagnant or slow-flowing waters in the foot-hills. Brandegee; Coulter. 



Var. sTAGrNATiLis, DC. (R. divaricatus, Sehrank.) Ponds and slow 

 streams at middle elevations. Dr. Smith; Brandegee; Coulter. 



RANUNCULUS ALISM^EFOLIUS, Geyer, var. MONTANUS, Watson. 

 Low, 6' high, alpine, stems ascending, leaves entire ; carpels rather 

 shorter-beaked than usual in the species. Parry 79 ; Yasey 15. Sierra 

 Madre Range, Coulter. 



RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA, L., var. REPTANS, Gr. Hall & Harbour, IS. 



RANUNCULUS GLABERRIMUS, Hook. Very glabrous ; stems 1 (some- 

 times 2) from a root of thickened fasciculated fibers, few-flowered, 

 S'-S'high; radical leaves elliptical, variable in breadth, tapering into 

 long, slender petioles, mostly entire, rarely cleft, cauline leaves sessile, 

 usually 2-3 cleft ; peduncles 1-flowered, those of the axils elongated 

 and divaricate ; flowers 6" broad ; petals obovate, twice as long as the 

 sepals ; heads of carpels globose ; achenia with a short curved beak, 

 puberulent, resembling those of R. affinis. This seems to be the plant 

 referred to by Dr. Gray in his Enumeration of Hall and Harbour's col- 



