44 RANUNCULACEJS. Ar/ullegia. 



-*- Flower pendulous in anthesis, the spurs therefore erect or ascending, and not over an 

 inch in lenj^th. Four species distinct in nature and habitat, viz. A. SIcinnen of Mexico 

 and th(> following. 

 A. Canadensis, I-^- Erect, early flowering, usually a foot high: flower red with some 

 vellow, rarely all yellow : spurs 3 or 4 times the length of their roundish yellow lamina, 

 and this not much shorter than the barely spreading sepals. — Spec. i. 533 ; Curtis, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 246; Schk. Handb. t. 146; Bart. Fl. N. A. i. 130, t. 36; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 888; 

 Gra>', Gen. HI. i. 40, t. 14; Sprague & Goodale, Wild Flowers, i. t. 1. A. rariegata, 

 Moen'ch, Meth. 311. A. elcgans, Salisb. Prodr. 374. A. favijiora, Tcnney, Am. Nat. i. 

 388, the yellow-flowered variation.i — On rocks, &c., Canada,, from lat. 56° to Manitoba, 

 south to Florida and to New Mexico, probably not west of the Kocky Mountain district; 

 fl. spring and early summer. 

 A. formosa, Fischer. More spreading : flower carmine-red or scarlet : spurs little or not 

 at all longer than the widely spreading sepals and only al)out twice the length of their 

 roundish and truncate yellow lamina. — Fischer in DC. Prodr. i. .50; Torr. .& Gray, Fl. i. 

 .30; Planch. Fl. Serres, viii. 125, t. 795 (not Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6552); Lawson, Rev. 

 Ca'nad. Kauunc. 75. A. Canadensis, Bong. Veg. Sitch. 124 ; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 24, in 

 part. A. arctica. Loud. Hort. Brit. 610, &c. .1. Canadensis, var. formosa, Wats. Bot. King 

 Exp. 10, &c. — Ala.ska and Brit. Columbia to N. California, mountains of Nevada and S. W' . 

 Utah, extending northeastward only to Idaho. 

 A. truncata, Fisch. & Meter. With lax spreading branches, rather late-flowering : 

 'flower deep red or scarlet : spurs little longer than the widely spreading or reflexed sepals, 

 truncate at the yellow-margined orifice, the lamina being obsolete or very short. — Ind. 

 Sem. Hort. Petrop. ix. 1843, Suppl. 8 ; C. A. Meyer, Sert. Petrop. fol. & t. 11 ; Brew. & Wats. 

 Bot. Calif, i. 10. A. Canadensis, Benth. Vl. Jlartw. 296. A. Californica, Lindl. Gard. 

 Chron. 1854, 836, & 1857, 382; Grav, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 328. A. eximia, Planch. Fl. 

 Serres, xii. 13, t. 1188; Morren, Belg. Hort. vii. t. 52.^ — Common throughout California, 

 probably in adjacent Nevada; fl. summer. 



^_ ^_ Flower (never red) erect or soon becoming so, the long attenuate spurs dependent 



or at first horizontal : lamina of the petals somewhat ample, obovatc or spatnlate and 



spreading. 



A C^rulea, James. A foot or two high, rather early flowering: sepals ovate, an inch to 



inch and a half long, blue, as also the spurs of M to 2 inches : lamina of the petals white.— 



James in Long Exped. ii. 15 ; Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 164 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 30 ; Hook. 



Bot Mao'. t 5477. — Along streamlets, lower alpine region and below. Rocky Mountains, from 



Montana to borders of New Mexico; first coll. by James. Apparently a smaller-flowered 



form in S. Utah. Varies to paler, but westward seems always to be of the 



Var. albiflora, Gk.vy, n. var. Whole flower white with merely bluish or purple tinge. 

 — A.le'ptocera, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Fhilad. vii. 9 ; A. le/itoceras, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4407. 

 A. macrantha. Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, t. 72, in letter-press (317) ^1. cm-ulea. A. ramlea, 

 Wats Bot King Exp. 10. A. carulea, var. ochrolewa. Hook. Bot. Mag. under t. 5477.— 

 W^asatch and Uinta Mountains, Utah, to the eastern border of the Sierra Nevada, California, 

 north to Idaho and perhaps to Montana. 

 A Chrysantha, Gr.vy. Taller, more glaucous and floribnnd, summer-flowering: flower 

 yellow • sepals lanceolate-oblong, little longer and not broader than the lamina of the 

 petals: spurs 2. ^ or 3 inches long, dilated at and near the orifice. — Proc. Am. Acad. vui. 

 621 ; Masters, Gard. Chron. 1873, f. 304 ; Meehan, Native Flowers, i. t. 7, poor. A. leptocera, 

 var. Jiava, Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 9, & Bot. Mex. Bound. 30. .1. leptocera, var c/m/sa„tha, 

 Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6073.— Wet places in ravines of moderate elevation. New Mexico, 

 Arizona, and S. Colorado; first coll. by Wright. 



1 A. Canadensis, var. flaviflora, Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, xv. 97. Another form with salmon- 

 colored flowers and pale leaves, the var. Phipf^n'II, J. Robinson, Bull. Torr. Club, xv. 166, has been 

 found in the neighborhood of Salem, Mass. ^, . • . j- + 



2 Add syn. A. formosa, var. truncata, M. E. Jones, 1. c. 259. Prof. Jones states that mtermediate 

 form-; " sepin to ociur" between A. truncata and A.Jormosa. 



