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sessile; bracts lanceolate, entire, 6" long; flowers on 

 long (2-3') slender peduncles, yellow; petals obovate- 

 oval, veiny; akenes in a small globular head yi" long, 

 inflated, very obtuse, as in var. alismellus, with minute 

 beak; whole plant glabrous, erect, 6-8' high, slender, 

 but stems rather thick below; roots fleshy-fibrous. The 

 type is No. 1161, Cusick, Eagle Co., Or., 1884, 6000° 

 alt. I also refer to this Watson's specimen from below 

 Lobo Divide, Idaho, Aug. 20, 1880. 



Ranunculus juniperinus. 



No. 5011. April 4, at Copper Mine, 18 miles west of 

 St. George, Utah, in Beaverdam Mts., 5000° alt., among 

 junipers, in loose gravelly soil. 



No. 5139X. April 30, at the head of the west branch 

 of Santa Clara valley in the Beaverdam Mts., Utah, 

 5000° alt,, in loose soil on rocks, among junipers. 



Perennial, with many long, rather fleshy fascicled roots 

 from the crown and when the crown is prolonged then 

 there are many roots growing out from the axils of the 

 old leaf-sheaths; plants densely tufted with many crowns 

 which are covered with dark, long, narrow and rather 

 fibrous leaf -sheaths i^' long; stems about 8-12' long 

 and generally erect; leaves rather fleshy and doubly- 

 pedately-parted, the lobes variously toothed or lobed; 

 petals white at first, veined on the outside with pink, when 

 old becoming purple and enlarging, 5-8" long, oval to 

 orbicular, with rather uneven margin, veins very prom- 

 inent, often rotate-spreading, usually cup-shaped; stamens 

 many, with minute round anthers; sepals concave, veined, 

 greenish, almost hyaline, only the claw reflexed, broadly- 

 ovate, obtuse, enlarging with age and closed over the fruit, 

 both petals and sepals persistent; flowers 2-3, long-pe- 

 duncled, always with a leafly bract at the base of the 

 peduncle, but with no other stem leaves; fruit flat with a 



