﻿New and interesting Plants from Western North America.— III.* 



By A. A. Heller. 



Salix Lyallii (Sargent) 



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1895. 



This species is abundant in the low ground along the Chehalis 

 river, in Chehalis county, Wash. I have collected what is said to 

 be Salix lasiandra near Lewiston, Idaho, and the variety caudata 

 at the original station near Santa Fe, New Mexico, and this west- 

 ern Washington plant is very different from both. As described 

 in the " Silva," it certainly has sufficient characters to make it 

 worthy of specific rank, for it is said to differ in its " longer leaves, 

 tapering from the rounded or subcordate base, usually white on the 

 lower surface, and often seven or eight inches in length, in its more 



of the pistillate aments." 



hairy 



Corylus Californica (A. DC.) 



This diners from 



Californica A. DC. Prodr. 16 2 : 133. 1864. 



eastern 



rounder, thinner, and more pubescent leaves. The tube of the 

 involucre is also much shorter and broader, sometimes barely ex- 

 ceeding the nut. It is abundant in grassy clearings about Monte - 

 sano, Chehalis county, Washington, occurring as a shrub four to 

 six feet in height, and growing in clumps. 



Ranunculus intermedius (Hook.) 

 Ranunculus Flammula [i intermedia Hook. Fl Bor Am 



11. 



1830. 



Hooker describes this as « caule repente gracili foliis anguste 

 lanceolatis superioribus linearibus integerrimus. * * On the gravelly 

 banks of rivers from Canada to lat. 69V This is one of several 

 varieties described by him, but he says that none of them appear 

 to grow west of the Rocky mountains. As now interpreted, this 

 form occurs also on the Pacific slope, but the west coast forms are 



t. __. ., mjthe eastern specimens. In his " Flora of North - 



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