Catalogue of plants collected in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, with descriptions of those not contained in Gray's Manual of the Northern U.S., and vol. V, Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel
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ANEMONE NARCISSIFLORA, L.-Six inches to a foot high, from a fibrous *Signs used: The degree (°) indicates feet.The minute (') indicates inches.The second ("') indicates lines, i. e. 4; of an inch.The hyphen means, to, i. e. 6-12' is 6 to 12 inches.The figures in parentheses are numbers under which the specimens were distributed.50taken so far north.(217.)RanuncuLus CymBauariA, Pursh-In Colorado grows everywhere in low moist ground, evincing, however, a marked choice for alkaline soils, but still flourishing in the freshest of snow water; altitude, 5,000 to 10,000 feet.From Saguache, in the San Luis Valley, we have a form with an erect, stout scape, bearing three or four flowers, having thicker and larger leaves, and manifesting little or no tendency to produce stolons.At Santa Fé, N. Mex., I collected it ( 10) at what I presume is the CATALOGUE. 57identical location from which Fendler obtained his plant, published by Dr.Gray in Pl.Fendl.p. 4, as 2. tridentatus, WH.B. K., and this I take to be the same form as that above alluded to from San Luis Valley.In addition to the difference noted by Dr. Gray in Pl.Fendl., I find the beaks of the achenia are in my specimens more tapering than in typical &.
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