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THREE NEW WESTERN PLANTS. 

 By M. L. Fernald. 



Carex Blankinshipii. Culm slender, nearly 1 m. high, smooth 

 or slightly rougliish above: leaves 0.5 cm. broad, rather short, with 

 the sheaths pubescent: stamiuate spike broadly clavate, 1.5 cm. 

 long, short-stalked or subsessile; pistillate spikes 3 or 4, 2 cm. or 

 less in length, short-stalked or subsessile, subtended by very short 

 lance-subulate bracts, approximate at the tip of the culm or the 

 lower rarely remote : perigynium hirsute, triquetrous, elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, tapering gradually to the truncate slightly bifid beak, obscurely 

 about 10-nerved ; stigmas 3 : the purplish or brown scale orbicular 

 or ovate, ciliate, the midrib generally continued into a rough awn, 

 hardly equaling the perigynium. — Hydesville, Humboldt County, 

 California, June 19, 1893 (J. W. Blankinship). Nearest related to 

 C. hirtissima, W. Boott. That species, however, is lower, with 

 longer-stalked scattered spikes, shorter more abruptly beaked 

 perigynia with finer pubescence, and thinner paler and smoother 

 scales. The pubescence of the perigynia of C. Blankinshipii is like 

 that of C. yosemitana, Bailey, and in habit the plant suggests C. 

 gynodynama, Olney, but that is a lower plant with smooth leaves 

 and broader perigynia. 



Amelanchier Cusickii. A shrub 2 or 3 m, high, with slender, 

 flexible branches, the smooth bark reddish brown : winter buds 

 reddish, the outer scales glabrous, the inner bearded within : leaves 

 pale green, firm, becoming coriaceous, about 3 cm. long, on petioles 

 1 or 2 cm. long, from ovate-oblong to obovate-oblong, glabrous from 

 the first, the younger acute, the older becoming rounded at the tip, 

 serrate with salient teeth nearly or quite to the base, or entire 

 below, the upper teeth most prominent : racemes about 6-flowered, 

 the pedicels glabrous : calyx glabrous without, the lance-acuminate 

 sepals pubescent within: petals oblanceolate, 2 cm. long: top of 

 ovary glabrous; pome 1 cm. in diameter, scarlet, tardily turning 

 black. — On stony hillsides. Union County, Oregon, May 5, and 

 June, 1898 (If. C. Cusick,'No. 1858). Related to A. alnifolia, 

 Nutt., and A. pallida, Greene, but diflTering from the former in its 

 strictly glabrous young foliage and racemes, the much longer petals, 

 the more serrate leaves, the diflferent flowering season, and in the 



