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July, 1897, Mrs. Zoe W. Palmer ; Glacier, June, 1897, Mr. & 

 Mrs. Cornelius Van Brunt. 



Alaska : Juneau, along the mountainside, July 24, 1891, Miss 

 Grace E. Cooley ; Yes Bay, July 10, 1895, Thomas Hozvell, 1664. 

 (all in Herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden or Columbia University) ; 

 Ferd. Bishoff. 



Oregon : E. Hall, 321. 



Washington: Skamania Co., Aug., 1886, Suksdorf ; Mt. 

 Adams, 3-400 ft., Suksdorf, 4.4.; June, 1879, J- Hozv ell (the last 

 five specimens in Herb. Gray). 



J Vagnera brachypetala sp. nov. 



A tall stout perennial, 5-8 dm. high. Stem striate, puberu- 

 lent, especially the upper portion : leaves subsessile or short - 

 petioled, oval or ovate, 8-18 cm. long, 4-7 cm. wide, often short- 

 acuminate and twisted at the apex, with 5-7 stronger nerves and 

 numerous weaker ones : panicle on a peduncle 4-5 cm. long, 

 rather dense, 3-10 cm. long and 2-5 cm. broad : petals and sepals 

 oblong, 1— 1 . 5 mm. long, scarcely half as long as the broadly di- 

 lated, lanceolate-subulate petaloid filaments : style about .5 mm. 

 long : berry dark purple, about 6 mm. in diameter. 



This species is closely related to V. racemosa and V amplexi- 

 caidis, perhaps most nearly to the former, but is easily distinguished 

 by the short petals and the purple fruit. In V. racemosa the 

 petals and sepals are almost as long as the filaments and the fruit 

 is 7-8 mm. in diameter and red with purple spots. V. brachypetala 

 grows on hillsides up to an altitude of 2500 m. 



British Columbia: Glacier, at the "Loup," 1897, Mr. & 

 Mrs. Cornelius Van Brunt (in fruit, type) ; Deer Park, Columbia 

 River, 1890, John Macoun ; Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1893, 

 John Macoun, 5998. 



Washington: Seattle, 1891, C. V. Piper, ip8. 



Idaho: Lake Waha, 1892, Sandberg, Mac Doitgal & Heller y 



228. 



^ Vagnera leptopetala sp. nov. 



A slender glabrous perennial, 2-3 dm. high. Rootstock very 

 slender for the genus, white, only about 2 mm. in diameter: stem 

 erect, strict or the upper portion somewhat zigzag, striate and 

 pale : leaves oblong-lanceolate, 6-8 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, light 



