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CARL SKOTTSBERG, A BOTANICAL SURVEY OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. 



William (Cunningham), Port Stanley! Port Louis! Port Harriet! near Arrow Har- 

 bour with Gortaderiaf North Arm! W. F., Port Phiiomel, Halfway Cove! Weddell 

 Island! Westpoint Island! — S. Patagonia, Fuegia, South Georgia, Prince Edward I., 

 Crozet I., New Amsterdam I. 



Fig. 2. Ramiuculus biternatus: a sepal, b — c petals, d — f carpels, g lipe acheno. X 10. 



930. R. ccespitosiis DusÉN, Gefässpfl. d. Mag.-länd. S. 185. 



Flowers 5 mm, in diam., sepals 3, broad ovate, 3x2 mm., petals 3 (not 5, as 

 DusÉN says) narrow spathulate, 4x1,5 mm., narrowed into a short claw, which is 

 I-nerved at the base; glandular pit below the middle of the petal; stamens about 6, 

 some 1,8 mm. long ; carpels about 15 — 17, crowned by a long, slightly recurved, fili- 



Fig. 3. Ranunculus csospitosus: a sepal, b — d petals, c stanien, f — h carpels, i — k mature achenes. XlO. 



form style; stigma with short papillse. Ripe achenes 3—3,5 mm., style erect or re- 

 curved, as long as the achene itself. 



This curious little plant, which is figured by Dusen, is so closely related to 



R. pseudotrullifolius, that at one time I was strongly inclined to regard it as a 



