STATE GEOLOGIST. 19 



R. affinis, R. Br.* Rou^h-fruited Crowfoot. 

 Lake of the Woods, Dawson. Northwest. 



R. affinis, R. Br., var. cardiophyllus, Gray.f 

 In the Ked river valley at Pembina, Chiekerinrj . West. 



R. rlioniboideus, Goldie. Rhomboid-leaved Crowfoot, Dwarf But- 

 tercup. 

 Frequent, or common, throughout the state. 



R. abortivus, L. Small-flowered Crowfoot. 

 Frequent, or common, throughout the state. 



R. abortivus, L., var. micrantbus. Gray. 



Minneapolis, Winclwll; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. Infrequent. 



R. sceleratus, L. Cursed Crowfoot. 

 Frequent, or common, throughout the state. 



R. recurvatus, Poir. Hooked Crowfoot. 



Frequent throughout the state ; reaching its northwestern limit at the lake of the 

 Woods, Macoun. 



R. Pennsylvanicus, L. Bristly Crowfoot. 

 Common throughout the state. 



R. fascicularis, Mulil. Early Crowfoot. 



Frequent, or common, throughout the south half of the state ; infrequent north- 

 ward. 



R. repens, L. Creeping Crowfoot. 

 Abundant throughout the state. 



R. repens, L., var. liispidas, Torr. & Gray.| (R. hispidus, Michx.) 



Red river valley near Saint Vincent (in a swamp), Dawson; common from Manitoba 

 westward, Macoun. 



R. hulhosus, L. Bulbous Croivfoot or Buttercups. 

 Northfleld, Chaney; Minneapolis, Mrs. Terry. Eare. 



E. acris, L. Tall Croivfoot or Buttercups. 



Infrequent, but noted at many places, as Lake City, Faribault, Northfleld, Minne- 

 apolis, Northern Pacific Junction, Carlton county, and on the upper Mississippi river. 

 "Becoming common In the eastern part of Manitoba," Macoun. 



*Kanunculus affinis, R. Br. Radical leaves petioled, usually pedately multifid ; 

 cauline ones subsessile, digitate, with broadly linear lobes ; stem erect, few-flowered ; 

 carpels with recurved beaks, in oblong cylindrical heads ; more or less pubescent 

 throughout. Watson's Rep. in King's Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. 



tR. AFFINIS, R. Br., var. cardiophyllus, Gray. Hirsutely pubescent, radical leaves 

 round-cordate, undivided or many-cleft ; cauline ones palmately many-cleft ; flower 

 1 inch in diameter. Porter arid Coulter's Flora of Colorado. 



^Ranunculus kepens, L., var. hispidus, Torr. & Gray. Stem erect, IY2 to 2 feet 

 high, branching and, with the petioles, very pilose with spreading hairs; leaves trifol- 

 iate ; leaflets distinctly petiolulate, oval, acute, laciniate ; pedicels with the pubescence 

 appressed ; flowers as large as in B. acris; calyx appressed ; carpels smooth, pointed 

 with a very short style. Torrey and Gray's Flora of N . J.., vol. i, pp. 22 and 658. 



