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but is manifestly only a form of C. Doiiglasii. These 

 specimens are in the National Herbarium. 



Anemone Tetonensis Porter. 



No. 5763. August 7, Fish Lake, Utah, 10,800° alt., on 

 gravelly knoll, devoid of trees, in the midst of a heavy 

 forest of spruces and firs, along v^ith Anemone nmltijida, 

 but never showing any tendency toward intergrading 

 with it. 



This does not accord with Mr. Britton's description, 

 but does accord with a part of the material on which Mr. 

 Britton founded his description, /. e., Bailey's specimen. 

 It would seem that Coulter's specimen is either a form of 

 A. niultifida or is a transition form between the two. 

 There was every facility for hybridization, and yet no 

 trace of it where I collected my material, though I hunted 

 for it for nearly an hour and saw hundreds of specimens. 

 All specimens have long, not " short " styles, and akenes 

 barely pubescent on the backs, flowers white; segments 

 of the leaves narrower and half longer, tapering and very 

 acute at both ends; petioles of bracts shorter for the 

 blade; whole plant more strict and not weak. The other 

 characters given for A. Tetonensis do not hold. The 

 sepals are bluish outside and pilose, especially below, 

 oval, 3" long, not open much, anthers oval and apiculate; 

 styles 2" long, glabrous above, curved but not refiexed; 

 heads oval, 3" high; plants 6-8' high, erect and not slender, 

 tufted; stems 2-5 from the apex of an upwardly bent 

 rootstock; dead leaf sheaths present. 



Ranunculus Cusickii. Referred provisionally by 

 Watson to alismcefoliiis var. alismellus , and by Holzinger 

 to hydrocharoides. Root leaves nearly round to ovate, 

 cordate or truncate at base, obtuse, entire, i' long, edges 

 barely sinuate, on petioles 1-3' long, with dilated bases; 

 stem leaves 1-2, similar and short petioled or nearly 



