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above ; leaves two to four pairs on the lower part of the stem, 

 spatulate with an acute apex, sparingly pilose on both surfaces, 

 8-15 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide; flowers few, small, terminating 

 the branches; calyx lobes ovate, acute, 4-5 mm. long, nerved, 

 minutely hairy; petals apparently linear, slightly longer; capsule 

 about 7 mm. long, its ten teeth revolute ; seeds numerous, angu- 

 lar, roughened with minute points. 



Habitat: " Hills, Blanco, March, April," C. Wright, Mexican 

 Boundary Survey Collections, No. 69. 



This very distinct species is represented in the Torrey Herba- 

 rium by half a dozen fragments, and does not appear to have 

 been distributed. It adds another member to the section Strepio- 

 carpi, and seems nearest to C. pilosum. 



Astilbe decandra, D. Don, var. CRENATILOBA, n. var. Leaf- 

 lets obtuse, crenate, mucronate, the upper one somewhat three- 

 lobed ; follicles about 2 mm. long, ovate ; calyx lobes obtuse. 

 Collected on the slope of Roan Mt, East Tennessee, along the 

 trail from " Cloudland " to the Roan Mt. station of the E. T. & 

 W. N. C. R. R. 



The plant differs markedly from the typical Astilbe decandra 

 in its shorter and stouter pods and blunt crenate leaves. It may 

 be more than a mere variety, but I do not feel warranted in de- 

 scribing it as a species. The fact of collection is noted in this 

 Bulletin, Vol. xiii, p. 74. 



Juncus filipenduhis, Buckley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1862, p. 8. {J. Buckleyi, Engelm., Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 

 iii., p. 435 ; y. leptocaulis, Torr., apud Engelm., 1. c, p. 454.) 



Mr. Buckley's name has distinct priority over Dr. Engel- 

 mann's and should be restored. The plant was collected in 1887 

 by Mr. Nealley. 



Cyperus Martindalei, n. sp. Culms erect, very slender, 

 smooth, 50 to 60 cm. high ; leaves very narrowly linear, nearly 

 smooth with a prominent midrib, about half the length of the 

 culm; involucre of about 3 leaves, 4 to 10 cm. long, the longest 

 overtopping the inflorescence ; umbel of a sessile head of numer- 

 ous spikes and i to 3 smaller heads on slender peduncles ; spikes 

 linear, about seven-flowered ; scales ovate, obtusish, about nine- 

 nerved ; achenium linear-oblong, triangular, about i mm. long, 



