40 Piper : New and noteworthy Northwestern Plants 



2-ovuled : pod lenticular, I -seeded, villous near the base of the 

 style on the anterior face with long hairs. 



Nearest related to T. eriocephahan Nutt. but with a very dif- 

 ferent calyx. Specimens examined : 



Washington : Simcoe Mountains, Suksdorf, no. 270, 6 June 

 1884 (type) ; Blue Mountains, Columbia County, Horner, no. 278. 



Oregon: Blue Mountains, Douglas, Nevias in 1874; Union 

 County, Cusicky no. 943 in 1881. 



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Astragalus sinuatus 



Apparently decumbent, a decimeter or so high, the stems 3 

 dm. or more long, somewhat zigzag : whole plant pubescent with 

 short curved white hairs : leaves 4—5 cm. long, the petiole short ; 

 leaflets about six pairs, 10-12 mm. long, elliptic, truncate or 

 slightly retuse at apex, broadest just below the middle, attenuate 

 into an acute base, very shortly petiolulate ; stipules small, deltoid- 

 acuminate : peduncles axillary, about 6 cm. long, exceeding the 

 leaves : flowers not seen : pedicels in fruit 4 mm. long : pods 

 thick-walled, curved, stipitate, 3-3.5 cm. long, including the 1 cm. 

 long stipe which is included in the calyx, turgid, rugulose, pubes- 

 cent like the rest of the plant, sharply acuminate at apex, dehiscing 

 for one fourth its length, the sutures not at all inflexed ; before 

 dehiscence the outer layer of the pod becomes loosened in short 

 sinuous folds along the dorsal suture. 



Eastern Washington, without definite locality, Brandegee, no- 

 739 in 1883. 



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This species is nearest A. sclerocarpus Gray, but its very differ- 

 ent leaves and shorter stiped pods mark it as distinct. 



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Solidago caurina 



Stems 6-8 dm. tall, terete, sparsely puberulent with white 

 curved hairs, or below quite glabrous : leaves numerous, lanceo- 

 late, sessile, scarcely triple-nerved, little reduced above, 5-6 cm. 

 long, 1-2 cm. wide, entire or little serrate, acute or sometimes 

 cuspidate, glabrous except the scabridulous margins, and the 

 nerves beneath, which are slightly puberulent : panicle virgate, 

 narrow, 1.5-2 dm. long, rather loosely flowered; branches of the 

 lower half or two thirds from the axils of slightly reduced leaves ; 

 heads 4-5 mm. high, about 1 5-flowered : involucre glabrous, the 

 bracts loosely two-ranked, lanceolate, not flaccid, broadest at base, 

 acute, more or less ciliate with rather coarse hairs, the midrib 

 prominent : outer bracts decidedly shorter : branches' and pedun- 

 cles pubescent with short curved hairs. 



