320 Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 
rounded at the apex, at the base rather suddenly narrowed into a long 
slender petiole. Flowers not seen. 
New Zealand: Riwaka (north-west Nelson); H. J. Matthews! 
A very distinct variety, respecting which fuller information is much 
devised. Although E. dentatus is a variable plant, I have never seen 
specimens with the leaves so broad and obtuse. 
215. Actaea caudata E. L. Greene in Ottawa Nat., XVI (1902), p. 35. 
Evidently tall, the stem probably solitary, the young petioles and 
rachis villous-puberulent, the leaflets when young minutely villous along 
the veins beneath, the upper face sprinkled with minute rigid shining 
hairs more or less appressed: leaflets from rhombic-ovate to lance-oblong, 
doubly and sharply incised, but with a long lance-linear perfectly entire 
acumination: raceme short, obtusely low-conical, its bracts ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, of one-fourth the length of the pedicels: 
petals 2 or more, of about two-thirds the length of the stamens, the 
elliptic blade passing gradually into a flattened claw of its own length: 
berries not seen, 
British Columbia: Margin of a rivulet, Chilliwack Valley, July 11, 
1902, J. M. Macoun, No. 33 550, at least in part, and as to the flower- 
ing specimens; for the branches taken by Mr. Macoun later by a few 
days, and at a lower altitude seem to represent a different species, probably _ 
A. arguta Nutt., the leaves of which are not at all caudate-acuminate as 
in this new species and the next following. 
216. Actaea asplenifolia Greene, l. c., p. 35. 
Stems perhaps several from the root, 1!/; feet high at early flower- 
ing, with leaf and inflorescence near the summit; a very sparse, somewhat 
villous hairiness along the veins of the leaves beneath, and an equally 
sparse succession of minute rigid hair-points along veins and veinlets 
above; leaflets of somewhat deltoid-lanceolate outline, incisely lobed and 
the lobes serrate, the leaflet ending caudately as in the last: raceme 
very short and few-flowered; bracts thin, distorted, almost scarious: 
petals usually 2, of less than half the length of the stamens, and con- 
sisting of a round-obovate or almost orbicular blade and equally short 
claw: fruit not seen. 
Of this species, so well marked in the cut of its foliage and in the 
character of its petals, the type specimens are Funston's No. 14, from 
Yakutat Bay, Alaska, 1892, and one from some unknown station also 
in Alaska, obtained by my friend Mr. A. W. Gorman. There are other 
Alaskan specimens of Actaea very different from these, and perhaps 
representing À. arguta; these, however, from southerly stations. 
