Piper : NEW AND NOTEWORTHY NORTHWESTERN PLANTs 643 
broadened bases : fruit globose, 8-9 mm. in diameter, the nutlets 
not united. 
In great thickets about Black Butte, eastern Oregon, 30 July 
1901, Cusick, 2688a. 
“Phlox lanata sp. nov. 
Perennial from a stout woody caudex, densely tufted; annual 
Shoots about 2 cm. long, one-flowered : leaves subulate, sharply 
cuspidate, distinctly bisulcate, 6-7 mm. long, densely white woolly 
€xcept near the tips: calyx woolly, the lobes subequal, cuspidate, 
6-7 mm. long: corolla pubescent at base within, the tube 1 cm. 
long, the orbicular lobes half as long, purple: style one fourth 
the length of the corolla-tube. 
_ Flat top of Stein’s Mt., Oregon, 4,000 feet altitude, 10 June 
1901, Cusick, 2557. 
This is a very distinct species nearest related to P. canescens 
T.&G. It is much more woolly than any other North American 
Species, 
“Allocarya jucunda sp. nov. 
Low annual, branching from the base, prostrate or ascending, 
the branches, 5-10 cm. long, rather sparsely bristly throughout : 
leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, 1-2 cm. long, bristly-hirsute, except- 
ing the glabrous upper face: racemes loose, the bracts gradually 
reduced: flowers white : calyx bristly, the acute lobes slightly 
roader at base: nutlets narrowly trigonous, 1.25 mm. long, rather 
ght colored, somewhat vitreous-shining ; back very obscurely 
eeled, with about five low transverse rugae extending to the 
Margin, not at all muriculate ; ventral surface keeled, with obscure 
oblique rugae extending to the margin; scar basal, linear, the sur- 
founding margin not sharply edged. 
. Margin of Christmas Lake, eastern Oregon, 5 August 1901, 
Cusick, 2723, 2724. Ce 
he species here proposed is very close to A. Cusicki Greene 
and to 4, hispidula, but differs in the characters of its nutlets and 
Ves, 
“Mertensia Cusickii sp. nov. 
Whole plant pale green throughout, with a fine closely ap- 
Pressed oAanenilng ee erect, 30-45 cm. high, leafy to the top: 
Tadical leaves oblong-ovate or oblong, obtuse, veiny, the blade 48 
‘m. long, the petiole as long or longer: cauline sessile or nearly 
“a oblong or lance-oblong, mostly acute, 4-8 cm. long: panicle 
» the peduncles exceeded by the leaves: pedicels and bracts 
