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from much shorter than the stem, scarcely reaching the lowest 

 branches, to 5 dm. high with long, stout petioles almost twice as 

 long as the triternate blades ; leaflets pale-green, glabrous but 

 under the lens densely covered with shining yellow glands, deeply 

 3-cleft, cuneate in outline, 3-lobed with cuneate, deeply crenate 

 lobes, the middle leaflet broad, petioluled, the lateral generally 

 unequal-sided, often sessile ; cauline leaves w^ith short sheathing 

 petioles, less compound than the radical leaves, upper ones 3-cleft 

 with narrowly linear, acute divisions : bracts simple, linear-acumi- 

 nate : sepals lanceolate, obtuse, somewhat undulate especially 

 towards the short curved claw; blade 17 mm. long, 6 mm. 

 broad ; claw somewhat more than 2 mm. long, rather stout, 

 slightly margined : petals, including the long straight red spur, 

 3.5 cm. long, attenuate above the globular honey-gland 6 mm., 

 then gradually dilating to the throat ; claw^ yellow, 5-6 mm. long, 

 4 mm. wide, truncate or rounded at apex, the point of insertion 

 deeply emarglnate : stamens with ribbon-like filaments broadening 

 towards the base, anthers oblong-elliptical, acute, 1.5 mm. long; 

 staminodia abruptly acuminate ; ovaries almost as long as the styles, 

 together 15 mm., glandular-pubescent with spreading hairs: fol- 

 licles veiny, pubescent, spreading but little, the seeds extending 

 to the apex : seeds reddish brown, oblong-elliptical. 



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his collection and distributed as A, tnincata F. & M. It is really 

 nearer A. fon/iosa Fisch., but \s distinct from, that and allied 

 species by the color and pubescence of the foliage, the long, slen- 

 der spur and prominent lamina of the petal. 



^ Myosurus nitidus sp. nov. 



Stems 1.5-2 cm. high in fruit : leaves half the height of the 

 plant, glossy, linear: fruiting spike cylindrical, 3-18 mm. high, 

 peduncles 3-10 mm., the longest spike having the shortest pedun- 

 cle : mature carpels roundish, shining as if polished, flat but with 

 margins thickened, keeled by the appressed or spreading subulate 

 beak. 



The specimens collected were in fruit, so the description of 



petals, sepals and stamens cannot be given. It is near M. aipu- 



latiis Watson, but differs in the more glossy body of the akene, 



which is not at all cupulate. Collected by the author at 



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