Parr 4, 1908] ROSACEAE 387 
2-10 cm. long, with the stamens 1.5-2 em. thick, at first lanceolate, in age cylindric; bracts 
lanceolate, glabrous or ciliate; sepals oval, 2.5-3 mm. long, white or slightly tinged with 
purple; filaments 8-10 mm. long, flattened and dilated above, at the apex nearly 0.5 mm. 
wide. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sitka. 
DISTRIBUTION : Wet places, especially salt marshes, from Alaska and Yukon Territory to Idaho 
and Oregon, 
3. Sanguisorba Menziesii Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Sanguisorba media Hook. Fl. Bor. Am.1: 197. 1832. Not Sanguisorba medial, 1762. 
Glabrous perennial, with a short rootstock ; stem slender, 3-10 dm. high, mostly simple; 
leaves odd-pinnate, the lower 24 dm. long, with 11-15 petiolulate leaflets, occasionally with 
stipels; stipules large, rounded, coarsely toothed; leaflets rounded-oval, 2-6 cm. long, 
1.54 cm. wide, coarsely serrate with broadly ovate, mucronate teeth, rounded at the apex, 
cordate at the base, dark-green and shining above, paler beneath; spike oblong-cylindric, 
1.5-3 cm. long, rounded at the apex; bracts ovate or lanceolate, rather densely pubescent, 
shorter than the buds; sepals dark-purple, oval, about 2.5 mm. long; filaments dilated, 
5-7 mm. long, nearly 0.5 mm. wide at the apex. 
Type collected in the mountains back of Short Bay, Alaska, in 1895, Thomas Howell 1620 
(herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION : Marshes from Alaska to Washington. 
4. Sanguisorba microcephala Presl, Epim. Bot. 202. 1849. 
Poterium officinale A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad.7: 340, in part. 1868. 
Sangutsorba officinalis Howell, Fl. NW. Am.1: 170, mainly. 1898. 
Glabrous perennial, with a rootstock; stem slender, 3-6 dm. high, simple or branched 
above; leaves odd-pinnate, the lower with 9-13 leaflets ; lower stipules narrowly lanceolate, 
adnate to the petioles, the upper expanded above with a rounded foliaceous toothed blade ; 
leaflets oblong-ovate, 1-4 cm. long, 1~-2.5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, cordate at the 
base, dark-green above, paler beneath, serrate with ovate mucronate teeth; spike rounded- 
elliptic to oblong-cylindric, dense, 1.5-2.5 em. long, 10-15 mm. thick ; bracts ovate, pubes- 
cent, shorter than the buds; sepals dark-purple, oval, 2-2.5 mm. long; filaments filiform, 
about 3 mm. long; fruiting hypanthium pubescent, rounded-ellipsoid, narrowly 4-winged. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Nootka Sound. . ; . 
DISTRIBUTION : Mountain marshes from Alaska and Yukon Territory to California. 
5. Sanguisorba officinalis L. Sp. Pl. 116. 1753. 
Poterium officinale A. Gray, Proc. Am, Acad. 7: 340. 1868.1 
Glabrous perennial, with a rootstock; stem 1-2 m. high, branched above; lower 
leaves 3-10 dm. long, odd-pinnate with 9-13 leaflets, the upper reduced; lower stipules 
narrowly lanceolate, entire, the upper ones foliaceous, often lunate, serrate; leaflets lance- 
oblong or those of the basal leaves sometimes ovate, acute or obtuse, serrate with triangular 
teeth, 2-8 cm. long, 0.5-3 cm. wide, rather firm, truncate or slightly cordate at the base, 
dark-green above, paler beneath; spike rounded to oblong-cylindric, 1-3 cm. long, about 
1 cm. thick; bractlets lanceolate, shorter than the buds; sepals dark-purple, 2~2.5 mm. 
long, oval; filaments filiform, of about the same length as the sepals or shorter ; hypanthium 
in fruit obovate, 4-angled. 
— LOCALITY: Dry meadows of Europe. ; . 
Lied cetaireate Burope and Asia; cultivated in gardens and rarely escaped; established in 
Maine and reported also from Minnesota and California. ; 
ILLUSTRATIONS: FI. Dan. p/. 97; Sv. Bot. pl. 305; Eng. Bot. p/. 1312; Baxter, Brit. Bot. #/. 
269; Hayne, Aran. Gew. 8: fi, 22, Dietr. Fl. Bor. 4: p/. 274; Fl. Deuts. ed. 5. pi, 2548. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Sanguisorba media L,. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 169. 1762. ‘TMhis was based mainly on the illus- 
trations in Zanoni’s Historia, /. 738, and Morison’s Historia 3: 2. 18, f. 8. It was sup- 
1 There are matly more synonyms that are here omitted as they have no bearing on 
North American botany. 
