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much more open and loose than in E. cczspitosa Watson; pedicels 

 three lines long, usually with a small bract midway, but these some- 

 times basal on the lowest; calyx-lobes oval, obtuse; disk hairy within, 

 about the length of the calyx-tube and adnate to it except the free 

 crenulate edge — the twenty-five or more stamens inserted just out- 

 side the margin; carpels five, each two- to four-ovuled, one- or two- 

 seeded, hairy along the inner edge, oblong-obovate to ovate, the rather 

 rigid styles bent outward; filaments filiform or slightly flattened at 

 the base; petals white, smooth, oblong to nearly orbicular, unguicu- 

 late, nearly as long as the stamens; seeds linear; scapes three or four 

 inches high. 



An interesting plant, nearest to E. ccespitosa Watson, differing es- 

 pecially in the smoother, more robust habit, the shorter and propor- 

 tionally broader carpels, the shorter and stouter styles and the thick, 

 three-nerved leaves. Except the inflorescence the general habit re- 

 sembles that of Arctostaphylos alpina. It was discovered on vertical 

 cliffs near the summit of the Olympic Mountains, Washington, at an 

 altitude of 7,500 ft., July 15, 1890, by Prof. L. F. Henderson, for whom 

 it is named; and was also collected in the same region on Sept. 30 fol- 

 lowing, by Mr. Charles V. Piper. 



Mr. J. W. Blankinship collected, July 7th, 1890, in the Big Horn 

 Mountains, Wyoming, at an altitude of 10,000 ft. what seems to be 

 good Erigeron Tweedy an a Can by & Rose. 



Prof. E. L. Greene has issued some advance sheets of Pittonia, vol. 

 ii, pp. 159-166, July 1st, 1891. On page 162, a plant is described as 

 new under the name of Tellima nudicaulis. This is evidently the 

 same as Nos. 119 and 52b of the collections of the Northern Trans- 

 continental Survey, distributed by me under the MS. name of Tellima 

 pentandra and which Prof. D. C. Eaton described as Heiahera IVil- 

 liamsii in Botanical Gazette, vol. xv. p. 62 (March, 1890). If a 

 Tellima — and I still think it accords better with that genus than with 

 Heuchera— it should probably bear the original name of T pentan- 

 dra, as given in Prof. Eaton's article. Some botanists, however, may 

 insist on using the specific name which it bears under Heuchera. in 

 which case it would be T IVilliamsii.—WM. M. Canby, Wilmington, Del 



