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Two new mountain Plants. 
By MERRITT LYNDON FFRNALD, 
“AsTER HENDERSONI n sp. 
Stem slender, 3 or 4 feet high, cinereous-pubescent, almost la- 
nate, except toward the glabrate base, branching above the mid- 
dle, the densely cienerous branches bearing single terminal heads, 
or themselves divided into naked or scarcely leafy branchlets; 
leaves thin, cinereous on both surfaces, especially on the mid-rib, 
or becoming glabrate above, the entire margins often ciliate; the 
upper cauline oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2 or 3 inches long, 
with auricled clasping bases, the lower oblanceolate, conspicuously 
narrowed above the clasping bases, 4-6 inches long; leaves on 
the branchlets few, scarcely an inch long, often so few as to give 
the appearance of almost naked peduncles; heads large, an 
inch or two across, 4-6 lines high; involucre of two or three 
loose rows of cinereous linear-attenuate bracts, mostly herbaceous, 
but the inner sometimes scarious below, rarely with one two nar- 
row foliaceous bracts; the fifty or more blue rays %-3¢ inch 
long, a line wide. 
Collected by Prof. L. F. Henderson (No. 2798) in rich moist 
meadows along the St. Maries River, Kootenai county, Idaho, 
August 5, 1894. 
Closely related to puniceus and Cusichit. The involucre is like 
the former, but the plant is more slender, with no trace of the stiff 
pubescence and harsh serrate leaves ‘of that species, while the 
lower cauline leaves are contracted above the clasping bases as in 
Cusickii. Hendersoni has the same pubescence as Cusickii var. 
Lyalli Gray, but this latter plant has much broader leaves, and the 
outer bracts of the involucre are very broad and foliaceous, and, 
according to Prof. Henderson, it grows in more open and drier 
bottoms than the plant here described. 
CAREX SCABRATA X CRINITA n. hyb. 
Either stout or slender, the leaves and culm harsh as in sca- 
brata; spikes 5~7, mostly androgynous, varying from % to 1% 
inches in length, the upper nearly sessile, the lower on peduncles 
an inch or more long, slightly spreading; scales lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, with brown scarious margins, and strong green 
mid-veins sometimes continued into rough awns 2-3 times as long 
as the perigynia, sometimes not equalling the perigynia; peri- 
gynia broadly ovate, with the few nerves either obscure or well 
