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3. Miscellanea. 



Anemone Oregana. E grege A. nemorosce, trifolice, et praeser- 

 tim Udensis ; foliis involucralibus 2-3 (soepius 2); foliolis indivisis 

 iaypqualiter dentatis vel integriusculis ovalibus oblougisve obtusis vel 

 folii radicalis obovatis (1-2-pollicaribus) ; sepalis (J-|-pollicaribus) 

 cum filamentis Isete purpureis vel cteruleis ; stylo ovario band longiore 

 (nee ut in A. Udensi elongato). — Hood River, Oregon, 3Irs. Barrett, 

 and adjacent parts in Washington Territory, Suksdorf. The Pacific 

 coast has various forms of A. nemorosa, some with less acute and less 

 lobed leaflets than is common at the East. But I think it does not 

 directly vary into the present species, which would rank between 

 A. trifoUa of the Old World and A. Udensis of Eastern Asia. 



Viola Howellii. Canince, V. mirahili proxima ; innovationibus 

 basi baud squamoso-imbricatis ; stipulis infimis laciniato-dentatis, iis 

 ramorum vel sarmeutorum brevium integris ; scapis pedunculisve gra- 

 cillimis; calcare corollse brevi (lin. 2 longo) crasso. — V. tmrabilts? 

 Gray in Bot. Gazette, xi. 293, not L. — I had this only from damp 

 fir woods in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, collected by Mr. T. 

 Howell, and doubtfully referred it to the old-woi'ld V. mirahilis. I 

 now have abundant specimens collected by Mr. Suksdorf in Klicki- 

 tat Co., Washington Territory, which show that it is quite distinct 

 both from that well-marked species and from any of our forms of 

 V. canina. 



SoLiDAGO ERECTA, Pursh. This and *S'. elata, Pursh, were acci- 

 dentally omitted both from the Synoptical Flora in 1884 and from the 

 Supplement in 1886. They were to have been mentioned as among 

 the uncertain species on pp. 143, 144. From my notes made, in 1881, 

 upon the original specimens in the Banksian herbarium, it would ap- 

 pear that aS*. erecta answers to 5. bicolor, var. concolor ; and that S. 

 elata, as to the plant of " New Jersey, Bartram," which may be taken 

 as the proper original of that species, is the same. And a smoother 

 form, which I have referred sometimes to this same variety and some- 

 times to S. speciosa, var. angustata, appears to be S. erecta, Ell. I 

 thiidt that a species under the name of S. erecta, Pursh, is to be rein- 

 stated, one which is well represented by a plant common in the vicinity 

 of Washington, and that it will include most of ^S". hicolor, var. con- 

 color, Torr. ifc Gray, and some of S. speciosa, var. angustata, Torr. 

 &, Gray. But the limits and the characters are not yet satisfactorily 

 determined. 



