Davis: RANUNCULI OF NORTH AMERICA. 479 
This is also closely allied to 7. abortzvus in habit and foliage. 
Plant glabrous, not lucid: akenes slightly compressed and 
margined, tipped with subulate hooked or recurved styles hardly 
half their length. April, May, North Carolina, Virginia, 
Massachusetts. 
36. R. recurvatus Porr. in Lam. Encycl. 6: 125. 1804. 
Fe. lanuginosus WaT. Car. 159. 1788. Not Linn. 
RP. saniculeformis Muu. Cat. 54. 1813. 
FP. tomentosus SPRENG. Neue Entd. 1: 287. 1820. 
Plant hirsute or only slightly hairy, erect, % to 2 feet high, 
branching: all the leaves petioled and never divided to the 
base, 144 to 3 inches wide, deeply 3-cleft, the lobes broadly 
cuneate, acute, toothed or lobed: petals light yellow, about 2 
lines long; sepals of same length or little longer: akenes com- 
pressed, margined : beak one-half their length, recurved. Damp 
woods, Nova Scotia to Lake of the Woods, south to Missouri 
and Florida. 
37. R. Bongardi GREENE, Erythea, 3: 54. 1895. 
Le. occidentalis var. parviflorus Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exp. 
BVA S54, 
ft. occidentalis var. Lyalli Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 
Szan, 1000. "Not 4... Lyall? Hook: f. 
f. tenellus var. Lyall RoBinson, Syn. Fl. 1: 1: 33. 1895. 
wm. Greenez Howey, Fl. N. W. Am. 1: 18. 1897. 
FR. Earlet GREENE, Pitt. 4: 15. 1899. 
Rk. Lyalli Ryps. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 166. 1900. 
Much like the following variety which is better known and 
was formerly considered the type. Plant more hirsute: leaf 
segments much broader: petals rather of the larger size, some- 
what persistent: akenes somewhat hispid; styles rather long. 
Northern California to Colorada and Montana and to Fort 
Wrangel, Alaska. 
Var. Douglasii (HoweELL). 
fh. recurvatus Bone. Veg. Sitch. 123: 1831. Mainly, 
not Poir. 
meecenelius Nutr. ex Torr. & Graygoll, 15-29. 1838: 
Not Viviani. 
&. Nelsoni var. tenellus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 374. 
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