j 20 Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 



iiberein, aber die oberirdischen Bliitensprosse bewurzeln sich bei meiner 

 Form nicht. Vor allem fehlt aber in den Beschreibungen samtlicher 

 Pormen der Hinweis auf die der Bremer Pflanze eigentiimliche Gedrangt- 

 wiichsigkeit, der meines Erachtens in den Rouyschen Diagnosen nicht 

 fehlen wiirde, wenn diese Eigenschaft den erwahnten Formen zukame. 

 Bremen: Gelande des Botanischen Gartens. 



253. Berberis brevipes Edw. L. Greene in Ottawa Nat., XV (1901). 

 p. 42. 



Allied to B. nana but every way smaller, the foliage of a deeper 

 green and merely glaucescent rather than glaucous; leaves with very 

 short petiole, not longer than the internodes of the rachis; leaflets 

 usually seven, rather broadly elliptic- oblong, 1 to IV4 inches long, sharply 

 and closely spinulose-serrate, very acute, conspicuously though minutely 

 reticulate, in texture comparatively thin ; racemes short and few-flowered, 

 but in fruit surpassing the petioles; berries small, subglobose, blue and 

 very glaucous. 



Alberta: Collected at Crow's Nest Pass, Rocky Mts., August, 

 1897, by Prof. John Macoun; No. 18080 of the Canadian Geological 

 Survey Collection. It is next of kin to the more southerly B. nana 

 Greene, which so long passed, by mistake, under the name of B. repens; 

 but it is wholly distinct by several characters, among the best of which 

 is the short-stalked foliage. In B. nana the petioles are so long as to 

 surpass even the long fruiting racemes. 



254. Stellaria subvestita Greene, 1. c, p. 42. 



Numerous suberect stems densely tufted, slender though firm, 5 to 

 10 inches high, very leafy below the middle, the dichotomous cyme 

 notably narrow and strict; leaves linear-acuminate, V* inch long, 1-nerved, 

 erect, subtomentose beneath, otherwise more or less pilose-pubescent, 

 the stem also pilose, the peduncle and pedicels less so; bracts of the 

 cyme ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, scarious, often villous-ciliate; 

 sepals oval, obtuse or acutish, scarious-margined. 1-nerved and the 

 nerve often pilose; petals little exceeding the calyx; capsule not seen. 



Alberta: Obtained at Devil's Head Lake and Banff, National Park, 

 July, 1891, by Prof. John Macoun; the specimens distributed for S. 

 longipes var.; but the species is of different habit, and is well marked 

 by the strong pubescence, the strict and narrow cyme, etc. 



255. Lonicera altissima 0. E. Jennings in Ann. Carneg. Mus., vol. VI 

 p. 74. 



Frutex gracilis erectus, 1,5—3,5 m altus; cortice glabra cinerea: 

 ramis juvenibus subpurpureis: foliis oblanceolatis vel obovatis, vel raro 

 ovalibus, subdensis, marginibus revolutis utrinque glabris, supra palli- 

 dulo-viridibus, nervis depressis, subtus pallidis, glaucis, acriter reticulatis ; 

 apice acutulo vel retuso plerumque mucronato; basi sensim angustata in 

 petiolum valde brevem (1 mm longum) marginatum, vel sessile: floribus 

 1,2—1,8 cm longis, geminis ad apices pedunculorum gracilium axillarium 

 2— 3,2 cm longorum; bracteis et lobis calycis plerumque in toto obsoletis; 



