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.bage light green, glabrous or nearly so, leaves a,ll entire, obtuse, radical 

 ones oblanceolate, Ipng-petioled; 2-4 inches long; cauline lanceolate to 

 obovoid or oval, the upper 'ones with very short dilated and thin sheath- 

 like petioles : sepals roundish, spreading, thin : petals 5-8, broadly obovate, 

 ,2-3 lines l9hg, golden.yellow: achenes obovate; moderately compressed, 

 obscurely margin,ed,, obliquely , tipped, with a short style. Very common in 

 wet places in. the Willamette valley, ajid from W. Washington to the Sier- 

 ' ra Nevada Mountains in Cajiforflia. - 



B. Gormani Greene Pitt.iii, 91. 'Stems several; from a;fescicle of per- 

 ennial, thick but slenderly; tapering fleshy-fibrous roots, siihpl'e, prostrate 

 at base, rooting and bearing le3,ves at 2-3 nodes, the terminal part naked, 

 ascending and scapiform, bearing a solitary small flower : leaves broadly 

 ovate or deltoid-ovate, acute, coarsely few-toothed, 6-9 lineslong, glabrous, 

 on almost filiform somewhat pilose-hairy petioles 1-3 inches long : petals 5, 

 oblong,, obtuse, twice the leagth^'of the spreading' sepals: achenes small, 

 glabrous, moderately compresseld, with a slender- curved' beafc aS long as 

 the body.. Collected by ^r.- if. W. Oorman ^h'Wet banks. at Cathedral 

 Springs, Crater--Lake,, so.uthera Oregon; Aug. 22nd,' 1896*''.' ■'• ■ 



R. alisihellns Gfreene Fl. Fr. 297. R. alismiefoUus var. alismellus Gray. 

 Glabrous ; Stems slender 2-12 inches long : radical leaves ovate or elliptical 

 to oblong or cordate, 6-15 lines long, on long slender petioles ; cauline 1-2 

 or none, narrower, subsessile :' flowers solitary, 4-7 lines broad, on long 

 slender peduncles: aicbenes few, the mature ones unknown. In wet'mdad- 

 ows on the highest mountains, .Washington to California. ■" ' 



B.'Fopnlago Greene Eryth. iii, 19. R. CusicMi Jones Proc. Cat. Acad, 

 new series V . 615. St^m 'solitary, from a fascicle of fibrpus root?, erect, 

 leaf y, the whole plant flaccid and glabrous, 6-10 inches high:- -leaves tbin- 

 membranaceous, from round-reniform to cordate-ovate, obtuse, entire or 

 obscurely crenate, long petioled; the cauline smaller, ovate and ovate-lanceo- 

 late, sessile: peduncles many, slender, hmger than the cauline leaves to 

 which they are axillary: flowers yellow, 4 lines broad: petals 5-6. ohovate- 

 oblong: heads of rather numerous thick bhort-pointed achenes small, glo- 

 bose or depressed-globose. Motintains of eastern Oregon and Idaho. 



B. Bolanderi Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad, ii, 58. Glabrous throughout 

 or the peduncles and calyx pubescent : stem stout, erect, 1-3 feet high; 

 leaves lanceolate, sparingly callous-denticulate, obtuse, the lower ones with 

 blade 4-6 inches long on petioles 5-12 inches long, the cauline ones few 

 and short-petioled or subsessile ; petals broadly' obovate 3-5 lines long, twice 

 as long as the rounded spreading sepals ; scales minute : achenes smooth, 

 moderately compressed, pointed with a slender beak, crowded in a com- 

 pact ovoid head. In wet places, Willamette valley to northern California. 



* * * Terrestrial species with at least gome lobed or divided leaves, 

 and no stoloniferous rooting or creeping stems except in R. repens. 



-1^ Radical leaves few, only lobed : achenes turgid and dorsally roun- 

 ded; in a globose head. 



B. glaberriinns Hook. Fl. i, 12, t. 5, Fig. A. Glabrous: stems weak, 

 2-6 inches long, erect or decumbent: leaves all petioled, radical broadly 

 oval, rounded and coarsely toothed or lobed. at the. apex; cauline subcu- 

 neate, trifid or entire: petal's 5,. obovoid^ 4-6 lines long, twice the length 

 of the oval spreading sepals:. achenes plump, puberulent, slender-beaked, 

 in large globose heads. In wet places, eastern Washington and north- 

 ward : flowering in very early spring. ., 



B. elllpticns Greene Pitt, ii,- 110. Very glabrous: stems several, 2-3 ' 

 inches high, from a large fascicle of perennial fleshy-flbrous roots: radical 

 leaves elliptical, entire, acutish at bothends, ]the petiole equaling the blade ; 

 the cauline narrower, often cleft into 2-3 linear divisions : petals often wan- 

 ting, sometimes 1 only, or 5, large, broadly obovate or more rounded, bright 



