Ranunculus flabellaris Raf.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  New York

• County/Municipio

  Richmond Co.

• City/Township

  Staten Island

• Locality

  Todt Hill

• Coordinates

  40.595, -74.1044

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  1861.57

• Georeferencing Method

  Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates of geogr. center of Todt Hill. Measured from coord. to farthest extent of the neighborhood to find linear extent (1850 m). Input info. into MaNIS Georef. Calc. to find uncertainty radius (Bounded Area).

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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herbarium
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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Thalictrum dioicum, L. var. CORIACEUM n. var. Segments
of the decompound leaves firm, pale beneath, rather dark green
above, reniform-orbicular and broader than long, or obovate,
deeply and sharply incised, the lobes rounded. “Plant always
dioecious, staminate flowers white,, pistillate purple.”
At elevations above 3,000 feet, on Blowing Rock, Table
Rock and Stone Mountain, North Carolina. Collected by J. K.
Small and A. A. Heller, 1891, and by Professor Porter in the
same region many years before.
Ranunculus delphinifolius, Torr. in Eaton, Man. Ed. 2, 395
(1818) and subsequent editions; not H.B.K. Nov. Gen. v. 48
(1821).	I	\
R. multifidus, Pursh, FI. Am. Sept. 736 (1814) not Fors-
kall (1775).
R. fluviatilis; BigeU FI. Bost. 139 (1814) not ofWilld.
R. Purshii, Hook. FI. Bor. Am. i. 15 (1830) in part.
R. lacustris, Beck & Tracy, in Eaton, Man. Ed. 3, 395 (1822).
The name of this plant has had a very curious history, which
I am now prepared to trace, having seen authentic specimens of
all the above-cited descriptions. First characterized by Pursh,
who gave it a name already belonging to an Egyptian or Arabi-
an plant, it was next alluded to by Dr: Torrey, under the name
R. delphinifolius, Pursh’s type was collected by Bradbury in
“ Upper Louisiana,” and is preserved in the Herbarium of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Torrey’s plant
was from New York, and a specimen bearing the label in his own
handwriting is contained in the Kew Herbarium,“i?. delphinifolius,
Torr. in Eat. Man. Ed. 2.” .. In his catalogue of plants within
thirty miles of New York (.1819), Torrey adopted Bigelow’s name
R. fluviatilis for the species; m%his Compendium he took R.
multifidus, and in the Flora of North America and Flora of New
York he called it R. Purshii, never returning to his original
name for it. ' I have been unable to ascertain his reason for this
course. Perhaps, he thought this was preoccupied by the
HERBARIUM OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK.
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New or Noteworthy North American Phanerograms.—V.
By N. L. Britton.
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