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and Wahsatch Mountains, at an altitude of 6-9,000 feet; July, August. It 

 is 15 Hall & Harbour, 13 Vasey, and 80 Parry in part, from Colorado ; pre- 

 viously reported only from the Arctic coast. (21.) 



Ranunculus glabereimus. Hook. Grlabrous ; leaves petioled, entire or 

 3-tootlied, or the cauline ones 3-cleft, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse ; heads 

 globose.— Root fibrous-fascicled ; stem 2-4' high, 1-3-flowered ; corolla an 

 inch in diameter; petals broadly obovate, tvs^ice the length of the calyx, the 

 nectary a broad tube 1" in depth— in this respect resembling R. Lingua. 

 In the Rocky Mountains of Oregon, Washington Territory, and Idaho. 

 Washoe Mountains, near Carson City, Nevada, vs^here it was also found by 

 Dr. Anderson ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; April, May. (22.) 



Ranunculus sceleeatus, L. Atlantic States and Canada to the Arctic 

 Circle ; collected by Bourgeau and Geyer, in the Rocky Mountains, and also 

 by Nuttall and Frdmont on the head-waters of the North Platte. Found in 

 Ruby VaUey, Nevada, and in Salt Lake Valley, Utah ; altitude 5-6,000 feet ; 

 May-October. (23.) 



Ranunculus multifidus, Pursh., Var. s repens, Hook. Creeping, with 

 the leaves all round-reniform, palmately 3-5-cleft. — Arctic America; also 

 Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Weber Valley, Utah ; altitude 5,500 feet; 

 August. R. limosus, Nutt., from the head-waters of the Snake River, has 

 still more divided leaves and is Var. r, Hook. (24.) 



Ranunculus digitatus. Hook. Kew. Jour. Bot. 3. 124, t. 4. Dwarf; 

 very glabrous; root grumous; leaves few, petioled, digitately or somewhat 

 pedately lobed, the 3-5-segments narrowly lanceolate, or oblong-spatulate, 

 obtuse ; flowers 2-3, terminal, with reflexed sepals and 7-11 oblong cuneate 

 petals ; fruit subglobose, the carpels beaked with the subulate recurved 

 style. — Stem 2-3' high, simple ; flowers 9" in diameter. Collected previ- 

 ously only by Burke, near Fort Hall, in Southeastern Idaho ; now found on 

 Mt. Tobin Range, above' Cumberland, Nevada, and by Prof. D. C. Ea,ton, 

 in the Wahsatch, near Cottonwood Lake ; altitude 9,000 feet ; June. (25.) 



Ranunculus nivalis, Br. Radical leaves dilated, lobed ; lobes somewhat 

 ovate; cauline leaves palmate; stem about 1-flowered; calyx very hirsute, 

 shorter than the petals ; style equaling the glabrous ovaries ; heads subglobose. 

 Var. EscHSCHOLTzii. {R. EschschoUzii, Schlecht.) Radical leaves 3-lobed, 

 lateral lobes somewhat divided, sparsely ciliate; calyx less hirsute, with 

 whitish hairs ; styles shorter than the achenia.— The stems are described as 



