Davis: RANUNCULI OF NORTH AMERICA. 481 
Rather leafy; upper leaves more deeply and repeatedly 
cleft: styles longer, slender, subulate, nearly straight. Dry 
hills, Ashland, Oregon, southward toward Klamath river, 
Calif. 
Var. ultramontanus GREENE, Pitt. 3: 13. 1896. 
Plant tufted ; divisions of lower leaves not cuneiform, deeply 
cleft into lanceolate segments; upper ones lanceolate, entire: 
several flowers % inch across: styles hooked. Moist places, 
Truckee river, east of Sierras, Calif. 
Var. Rattani Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 373. 1886. 
Rt. Rattant Howex, Fl. N. W. Am. 1: 17. 1897. 
FR. ciliosus HowE tt, |. c. 
Differs from the type in having the akenes covered with 
short, stiff hairs and also roughened with papilla. Josephine 
county, Ore., to central California. 
Var. robustus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 373. 1886. 
f. occidentalis Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 374. 1872. 
Stem stout, often a foot high: flowers large, 9 to 15 lines 
long, long-peduncled: petals broadly obovate: akenes numer- 
ous, very large. Unalaska and islands westward. 
39. R. Turneri GREENE, Pitt. 2: 296. 1892, except syn. 
Plant appearing much like a tall specimen of F?. occ¢dentalis : 
petals longer, 4 to 7 lines long: flowers long-peduncled: more 
akenes in a head; styles circinately-revolute, strongly so. Por- 
cupine river, Alaska. 
40. R. acris Linn. Sp. Pl. 554. 1753. 
Plant hairy up to the sepals, erect, % to 3 feet high, often 
branched: radical leaves on long slender petioles; others with 
shorter petioles sheathing the stem, or nearly sessile: leaves 3- 
parted nearly to the base, the divisions ovoid-cuneate, 2—3-lobed 
and coarsely toothed or cut; bracts linear, lobed or entire: 
flowers yellow, 9 to 12 lines across, several, on rather short pe- 
duncles; sepals hairy beneath, ovate, shorter than the petals; 
petals 5, glabrous, obovoid, obtuse, bearing a prominent scale 
at base: akenes compressed, coriaceous on margins; style very 
short: head globose. May to September. Newfoundland, 
Canada, Eastern States. Said to be naturalized from Europe. 
Var. flore-pleno Hort. is more used in the trade. Bot. Mag. 
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