Ranunculus. RANUNCULACEyE. 23 



Ltmiiwn, &c. to uear Salt Lake, Utali, WuWm, in.-., ami Boise City, S. W. Idaho, WUcui, 

 at 5,000 to 9,000 foot. 



11. Chamissonis, Schleolit. Aiiimad Uaiiuiic i. 12, t. 1, is known (Jiily on the Artiatic Biilo 

 of Bering Strait, aud is uincii neairr ihe following, Imt with more utrimilar and gildnjuj* fruit 

 and longer more naked style (accordin;^ to herh. Kew) ; it is vcrv little known. 



R. glaciAlis, L., of Europe, ou the otlier hand, coming ;us near the Amcrieau coutiticnt 

 as Greenland, has dark-hairy ealyx and longer beaked bniadly semi-ovate carpels ; when young 

 these are wholly scarious-utricular ; in age the portion immediately around tlie seed l>ccome8 

 coriaceous, the rest forming the hyaline wing, which, however, is bilamelljir and pervious*. 



§ 4. CYiiTORnvNCUA,^ Gray. Pefcils pale yellow, bearing a promiueut simple 

 or bifid callosity on the inner face (with the whitish or yellowish membranaceous 

 sepals) deciduous : stamens about 20 : carpels in a globular head, Thulictnunr 

 like, in fruit somewhat utricular akeues, oblong, terete, or ovate and laterally 

 flattened, prominently about 10-costate, tipped with a short subulate inflexed or 

 slightly recurved style, subcoriaceous, loosely lilied by the oblong erect seed: 

 fibrose-rooted perennials. — (Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. G.) Proc. Acad. Philad. 

 18G3, 56. Cyrtorhyncha, Nutt. in Torn & Gray, Fl. i. 2G. 



R. Nuttallii, Gray, I. c. A span to near a foot high, glabrous: leaves 2-3-teruately divided 

 aud parted into oblong or lanceolate lobes ; radical loug-petiolcd, cauline one or two and 

 small : stems corymbosely several-liowered : petals 5 to 9, 2 lines long, spatulate-oblong : 

 akenes a line or so long. — Cj/rtorhynclia ranunculina, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, 1. c. — Ilocky 

 Mountains of Wyoming aud Colorado ; fl. >:pring and summer; first coU. by Nuttall. 



R. Cooleyae, Vasky & Rose. Glabnrus, 3 to 10 inches high: root a cluster of stout fibres: 

 leaves cliietly radical, orbicular iu outline, deeply aud palmately 3-5-cleft, 1 to 1^ inches 

 in diameter; the lobes flabelliform, creuate-dentate and again more or less deeply parted ; 

 the cauline leaves solitary or absent, smaller and of simpler contour : stem simple or on«e 

 branched : sepals greenish or yellowi.sh white, broadly oblong, obtuse, 4 lines in length : 

 petals bright yellow, having a bifid thickening near the junction of the very short claw and 

 the narrowly oblong blade, 2i to 3 lines iu length : carpels very numerous, only partly 

 ripening, at maturity ovate, laterally compressed aud keeled, tipped with a slender gently 

 recurved style with small terminal stigma. — Contrib. U. 8. Nat. Herb. i. 289, t. 22. 

 Knmlienia C'ooleija\ Greene, Erythea, ii. 193 & ? iii. 53. — Rocky hiUs near the snow level, 

 Al.aska, uear Juneau, Miss C'oulei/ ; St Elias .Alps above Disenchantment Bay, Funsion ; fi. & 

 fr. August. A plant of doubtful affinities, possessing mucli the habit of the Californian 

 A', hy.itriculus, but the shorter smooth thickish more strongly ribbed akenes as well as the 

 petals of the preceding. 



§ 5. Halodes, Gray. Petals yellow, with nectariferous spot and scjile, 

 deciduous with the sepals : mature carpels thin-walled and utricular, compressed, 

 the sides striate with several simple or sparingly branched nerves : perenni:il by 

 flagelliform stolons, affecthig saline soil: scapes 1-3-iiowered. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xxi. 366. — Comprises H. plantaginifolius, Murr. {R. salsuginosus. Pall. ace. 

 to DC, R. Ruthenicus, Jacq.) of Siberia, and the following. 



R. Cymbalaria, Tursii. Low, glal)rons : leaves orbicular or ovate-roundi.-<h and conlatc, 

 or sometimes with truncate base, coarsely crenatc, or rarely only 3-toolhed, more or leivs 

 succulent (varyiug from an inch down to 2 lines in length) . scape 1 to 6 inches high : petals 

 5 to 9, narrowly oblong oj spatnlate, 1 to 4 lines long : akenes apicnlate, sm.iU and very 

 numerous, in an at length oblong liead on an elongated recei>ta(lc. — Fl. ii. 392 ; Tlook. Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. i. 11 ; Torr. & Gray. Fl. i. 17; Fl. Dan. t. 2293. 11. s,ilsu(jinosi,s. Pall. Reise, 

 ed. 3, iii. 173, in part; R. trulmlutits, IIBK. Nov. (Jen. & Spec. v. 42. Ji. /ici/<./»/ii7ia, 



•L Extended to include Ii. Vookyae. 



