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Cotula coronopifolia .. Salt marshes on the sea-coast, intro- 
duced. 
Hypochaeris glabra L. Prairies, Tacoma, introduced. 
Luma hypoleuca Benth. Mt. Rainier among talus at 5500 ft. 
alt. 
Aplopappus Brandegei Gray. Loose rock and sand, Mt. 
Rainier, alt. 8000 ft. 
Casstope Stelleriana DC. Mt. Rainier, alt. 5000 ft. 
Newberrya congesta Torr. Dry hills in partial shade, Tacoma. 
Gilia Nuttalli Gray. Grassy places, Mt. Rainier, alt. 5000 ft. 
Gia Larsent Gray. Rock piles, Mt. Rainier, alt. 7000-8000 ft. 
Romanzoffia Sitchensis Bong. Above snow line, Mt. Rainier. 
Pinguicula vulgaris L. Mt. Rainier alt. 3000 ft. - 
Polygonum Newberiyi Small. Immediately above timber line, 
Mt. Rainier, alt. 6000 ft. 
Stenanthium occidentale Gray. On rocks above the snow-line, 
Mt. Rainier. 
Poa Lettermani Vasey. Loose sand and stones, Mt. Rainier, 
alt. 10000 ft. 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 
New or noteworthy American Grasses.—VII. 
By GEORGE V. Nasu. 
v ERIANTHUS LAXUS n. sp. 
Culms erect, stoutish, 2-3 metres tall, pubescent with appressed 
hairs, toward the base scanty and short, at the apex longer and 
copious. Nodes densely pubescent with appressed grayish hairs ; 
sheaths striate, the inner surface spotted and tinged with red- 
brown, the outer surface densely hirsute with ascending gray hairs, 
the lower sheaths throughout, the upper ones only at the base and 
apex, with the intermediate portion but sparingly pubescent; li- 
gule 3-4 mm. long, rounded at the apex, irregularly lacerate-. 
toothed; leaves flat, 2-5 dm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, long-acumi- 
nate at the apex, a little narrowed toward the base, rough on the 
margins, hirsute on both surfaces, the upper surface becoming 
glabrous when old; panicle gray in hue, 4-5 dm. long, 1 dm. wide 
or less, loose, the main axis copiously pubescent with long, silky 
appressed hairs, as are also the elongated lax and flexuous ascend- 
