SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 3 
lection in the note ——- to No, 19.—Near Long’s Peak, June 1, at 
9,000 feet altitude, Coulter 
RANUNCULUS CYMBALARIA, Pursh.—Common in marshy ‘ground 
= mp plains and in the | mountains. Hall & Harbour, 11; Dr. Smith ; 
H Smith ee : on ee; Coulter. 
is AFF R. Br. adical leaves petioled, usually 
pedately multitid s dating ones subsessile, digitate, with broadly linear 
w-flo 
lobes ; stem ere ect, ew-flowered ; carpels with recurved beaks in oblong 
éylingvieal heads, more or less pubédoant chaoaghe out. Var. LEIOCARPUS, 
Trautv. Lower leaves usually lobed or crenate; from 8’-12’ high; 
flowers small; carpels smooth or F somewhat pubescent, —Hall & Harbour, 
15; basics 13; B, H Smith ; 
ARDIOPHYLLUS, Gr. R. seh aaa Hook.) Hirsutely pubes- 
cent, ‘Pitthoad leaves round-cordate, undivided or many cleft; cauline 
ones palmately many-cleft ; flower 1’ in diameter.—Hall & Harbour, 16. 
CULUS NUTTALL LU, Gr. (Cyrtorrhynca ranunculina, Nutt. Fi. 
Am.1, p. 26.) Gray’s En. Hall & Harbour, p. 56, Note. Smooth, 6’-8/ high; 
root ‘Rintsiod radical leaves biternately divided, segments 3-5 parted 
] 
“arp 
head, glabrous, cylindrical-oblong, grooved, many-nerved ; stigma sub- 
ulate.—Hall & Harbo ur, 13. Near Long’s Peak, June 1, at 9,000 feet 
altitude, Coulter. 
RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS, rs River, Hall. Cherry Creek, 
Dr. Smith. Bear Creek Caiion, Coulte 
RANUNCULUS MULTIFIDUS, Pay. var. REPENS, Hook, Creeping; 
leaves en round-reniform, palmately 3-5 cleft——Wilson’s Creek, July, 
Brande 
S HYPERBOREUS, Rottb., var. NATANS,C. A.Meyer. Stem — 
bata 
filiform, er si leaves glabrous, petioled, 3 cleft; "lobes oval- -oblong, 
divaricate, the lateral ones somewhat 2 cleft, middle one voget s heaths 
bi-auriculate at base ; fener of pris glo obose mpac style want- 
ing.—Mueh resembles forms of the preceding, sae dinetekitea by the 
absence of styles—In swamps at middle elevations. Hall & Harbour, 
“12. Clear Creek, Coulter. 
R CULUS PYGMzZUS, Wahl. Stem erect, never creeping, 1/-2/ 
high, 1-flowered; leaves glabrous, 3-5 cleft; radical ones petioled, cau- 
line ones sessile; ” calyx glabrous, longer than the somewhat reflexed pet- 
als; peed oblong; carpels subglobose, not margined at the back, pointed 
with a short hooked style-—Mount Evans, on dry ground, at 13,000 feet 
atte canean 
, R. Br., var. EScHSCHOLTzI, Watson. (R. 
Bachachottsi Schlecht.) “Radical leaves 3-parted, the divisions lobed, 
ciliate ; stem about 1-flowered ; calyx hirsute, with whiti sh hairs, shorter 
co 8 the A ~ shorter than the achenia.—Hall & Harbour, 14; 
asey, 1 
RANUNCUL ; ue 
Note. Seg pri villeus, becoming glabrous; root fasci ulate, Bopib 
stems branching from the base, 1-3 leaved above, som tim mes erect, creed 
simple, 1-flowered, but sometimes sarmentose-decumbent, and 2-3 flow- 
ered; leaves twice eptoraaaece parted, segments narrowly linear; petioles” 
scarious, perth! a short; ; corolla pes ex- 
