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dear friends who give us help and sympathy. Every one is deeply 

 grateful for the help that is coming to us from everywhere. 



I had a lot of fine duplicates ready to send you but they are 

 all gone. 



Gratefully yours, 



Alice Eastwood. 



SHORTER NOTES 



Ranunculus sicaeformis Mackenzie & Bush, sp. nov. Peren- 

 nial, with thickish, but not tuberous roots, the stems at first erect, 

 but in age ascending or reclining ; runners not seen ; whole plant 

 very strongly whitish or yellowish hispid-pubescent : lower leaves 

 with petioles 20-25 cm. long, the blades 3-divided, the divisions 

 long-stalked, 3-cleft and irregularly and sharply incised-serrate, 

 the segments broad ; stem leaves similar, but smaller : flowers 

 on peduncles 3-10 cm. long ; sepals 5, strongly hispid, ovate- 

 lanceolate, 6 mm. long: petals 5, yellow, obovate, 10—12 mm. 

 long : stamens numerous : head of fruit globose, the receptacle 

 strongly pubescent : achenes obovate-cuneate, the margin sharp 

 and thick, terminating in a very stout, straight or slightly curved 

 dagger-shaped beak as long as the body, the whole 6 mm. long. 



Readily distinguished from R. scptcntrioualis Poir., its nearest 

 relative, by the very hispid stems, more strongly pubescent recep- 

 tacle, and the very stout beak of the achene. 



The type, collected by myself {110. pj) at Buckner, Jackson 

 County, Missouri, on May 30, 1898, growing in low, wet prairies, 

 is in my private herbarium. Co-types are in the herbarium of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, and in the herbarium of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. The only other specimen seen is 

 one collected June 7, 1886, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, by 

 " O. W. O.," distributed from the herbarium of the University 

 of Minnesota, and now in the Columbia College herbarium. 



K. K. Mackenzie. 



A Note upon Ipomoea cuneifolia A. Gray. — The rarest and 

 least known species of Ipomoea in the United States is undoubt- 

 edly /. citneifolia, but unfortunately this very appropriate name 

 given to it by Asa Gray is a homonym. 



