500 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 
finely dissected than in that species: petals white or rose-purple 
without: akenes flat, not inflated, very small, only I to 1 % lines 
long. Rocky places in woods of Utah. 
96. R. glacialis Linn. Sp. Pl. 553. 1753. 
Roots fibrous: plant low: lower leaves petioled, others ses- 
sile and involucrate, all 3-parted or trifid and again lobed; up- 
per ones often villous: flowers 1 to 3, white or reddish; petals 
obovate to cuneate, blunt; sepals shorter, very densely hairy. 
Summer. Mountains of Europe, Arctic regions, Greenland. 
Garden45; 9p. 25; 46 p. 501. 
KUMLIENIA Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 337. 1886. 
(Named for the late botanist, Prof. Kumlien of Wisconsin.) 
Low perennials; stem nearly leafless, 1-2-flowered: leaves 
mostly radical, rounded and lobed: sepals 5 to 7, white, con- 
spicuous; petals 5, small, oval, fleshy, with nectariferous pit 
and slender claw; stamens and pistils many: akenes lanceolate, 
acuminate, compressed, membranaceous, and utricular, ob- 
scurely 1-nerved on the sides; style hooked, persistent; seed 
much shorter than the cell. A monotypic genus of narrow dis- 
tribution. Of it Greene remarks that it has the general aspect 
of Feanunculus; flowers of Caltha, with nectary-like petals of 
ffelleborus, the utricular fruit peculiar. This is section PsEuDA- 
PHANTOSTEMMA of Gray, under /tanunculus. 
K. histricula GREENE, l. c. 
ftanunculus hystriculus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 328. 
1868. 
Stems 4 to 10 inches high, bearing 1 or 2 3-lobed leaves: 
radical leaves round-reniform, with 5 broad rounded lobes; 
petioles long: flowers 1 or 2: akenes 3 lines long including the 
style. Aprilto June. Portland, Ore., east to the Sierra Neva- 
das. Rare. 
FICARIA Hups. Fl. Angl. 213. 1762. 
(Latin for fig, referring to the thickened roots.) 
Perennial herbs with tuberous roots; plants all glabrous; 
stems branched or simple: leaves petioled, entire or toothed, cor- 
date: flowers large, solitary, either axillary or terminal; sepals 
3 to 5, deciduous; petals about 8 (7 to 12), yellow, or red at 
