40 LeUx'i'iJ — I)<'Ij>lilnlii III rirldc.srciis (iii(hSainl)iicii.<: leiosperma. 



about 1.7 centimeters loiip, inrliulin,ir tlie sliort spurs, bidentate at the 

 apex; follieles a))out 7 inilliineter.s long and 2.5 millimeters wide, erect, 

 ])ubescent ; seeds nearly cubical, about 2 millimeters long and of nearly 

 the same -width, narrowly scarious-winged at the angles. 



Collected near Peshastin, Okanogan County, Washington ; altitude, 500 

 meters; No. 56o, Sandberg and Leiljerg, 1893. Type specimen in the 

 United States National Herbarium. 



A well-marked species atid in aspect very different from all 

 our northwestern forms. By its technical characters it occupies 

 an intermediate })Osition between D. hespenum and D. distichum. 

 From the former it difiers in its fusiform roots and much larger, 

 thinner, glabrous, less divided basal leaves ; from the latter spe- 

 cies it is separated by its conspicuously yelloAV-pilose inflores" 

 cence, its less dissected cauline leaves, shorter follicles, and more 

 open raceme. By the small, inconspicuous brownish or green- 

 ish-purjde flowers the plant may be separated at a glance from 

 any of the described North American species of Delphinium. 



The plant is common in the wet meadows along the Wenatchee 

 River, in the State of Washington. It is commonly a very robust 

 species, sometimes reaching a height of 2 meters, the basal leaves 

 often 20 centimeters broad. 



Sambucus leiosperma sp. nov. 



Shrubby, 1.3 to 2 meters in height, forming with its spreading stems 

 loose open clumps; pith of two-year-old shoots yellowish-brown ; leaflets 

 5 to 7, varying from oblong to lanceolate, 4.5 to 8 centimeters in length, 

 1.5 to 3 centimeters in width, acute or acuminate, subsessile or short- 

 petioled, sharply serrate, the apices of the teeth usually inflexed, smooth, 

 or witli a scattered short pubescence, especially on the petioles and the 

 lower surface of the leaves along the midrib; stipules present on the 

 Howering shoots, subulate, about 1 centimeter long and 0.5 millimeter 

 wide; cyme oblong, somewhat flattened when in fruit, scabrous-puberu- 

 lent, tlie branches membranaceously margined at tlie forks ; flowers yel- 

 jowish-white, drying the same color ; berry scarlet, containing 3 to 5 

 seed-like nutlets, these very smooth, 2 to 3 millimeters long and about 

 1.5 millimeters wide. 



Collected at Crater Lake, Oregon ; altitude 2230 meters, No. 370, Co- 

 ville and Leiberg, 1896. Type specimen in the United States National 

 Herbarium. 



This is the red-fruited elder of the higher Cascades of Oregon 

 and Washington. It extends northward also into Alaska, as in- 

 dicated by specimens in the National Herbarium, collected on 

 Kadiak Island, in 1888, by Mr. C. H. Townsend, naturalist of the 



