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The type is no 7655, collected x^pril 12, 1905, on the rocky 

 ridge to the north of the mouth of Kern canyon, Kern county, 

 California. Later the plant was seen on the opposite side of the 

 river. It grew about rocks in sheltered situations, usually sev- 

 eral stems in a clump. It is a handsome species remarkable for 

 its rose-pink flowers and crisp herbage. Its position in the Syn- 

 optical Flora would probably be near D. andersonii and its two 

 relatives, page 48. 



Ranunculus ludovicianus Greene, Bull Cal. Acad. 3 : 58. 

 1886. 

 No. 7829, collected May 5, at the type station, in moist 

 ground along the railroad a short distance west of Tehachapi, 

 Kern county, where Mrs. Brandegee found it in 1884. It is a 

 handsome species, the flowers having a diameter of 2 cm. or 

 more. The petals are less glossy than are those of R. californi- 

 cus^ and as in that species are ten or more in number. 



Ranunculus longilobus 



Perennial, roots fibrous, thickish, nearly 2 mm. in diame- 

 ter, from a thickened erect caudex i or 2 cm. long: stems usu- 

 ally several, 4 dm. high, sparingly branched above, somewhat 

 strigose pubescent, especially below: leaves mostly basal on pet- 

 ioles 1--I.5 dm. long, pubescent like the stem; blades pubescent 

 with appressed hairs but not whitened, broadly ovate in outline, 

 the largest 5 cm. long and as wide, 3-parted, the long divisions 

 two or three. lobed and these again similarly cut into lanceolate 

 acute segments, the central main lobe usually cuneate with a 

 broad base; stem leaves one below each branch, only the lower- 

 most approaching the basal leaves in shape, the divisions all 

 narrow, linear or lanceolate; the uppermost reduced to linear 

 bracts: flowers rather few; sepals yellow, reflexed, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, about 4 mm. long, pubescent externally: petals bright yel- 

 low but hardly glossy, about 6 in number, elliptical-oblong, 

 8 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, all rounded at apex: akenes 5-8 in 

 low-ovoid heads, the body thin, glabrous, oblique-orbicular, 4!nm. 



