NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 21 
- or 8 inches broad in fruit: petals large, 3 to 5 lines long, 
| rounded, obtuse, clear yellow: achenes very broadly oblique- 
_ ovoid, obtuse, distinctly carinate on the back above the mid- 
_ dle, the sides marked with numerous rather coarse simple 
. or forked veins. 
_ The type of this very interesting Pacific American species 
- isofstony hills in the vicinity of Victoria, Vancouver Island, 
E where I collected it in 1890. I have until lately considered 
- it only an extremely ample and sparse-flowered state of P. 
- arguta. To P. glandulosa, long well known to me, it never oc- 
curred to me that this kind of plant could possibly be referred. 
_ However, I now have reason to think that it is common in 
_ British Columbia, Idaho and Washington, and that the 
- specimens have been referred to P. glandulosa. Mr. Sand- 
= berg's numbers 47 and 175, as I find those numbers repre- 
- sented in the U.S. herbarium, I take to be of the present 
- species. The extremely large yellow petals and open inflo- 
. rescence are sufficient characters by which to distinguish it 
from P. arguta; perhaps also the nutlets of this last are, as 
described, smooth and even, without a carinate dorsal mid- 
vein, in which case the fruit character of P. valida will be 
excellent. 
Prunus OnEGANA. Evidently allied to P. subcordata, but 
leaves little more than an inch long, subcoriaceous, pubescent 
on both faces, in outline oval or broadly elliptic, never sub- 
cordate, commonly acutish at both ends, serrulate: flowers 
unknown: fruits in pairs or threes, on pedicels 3 inch long 
or more, densely tomentose when very young, more thinly 
so, yet distinctly tomentulose when half-grown. 
Known only from specimens collected on the Yanex In- 
dian reservation in southeastern Oregon, by Mrs. Austin, in 
1893; and a most remarkable species, as connecting true 
Pow with Amygdalus. But that it isa Spe and not an 
almond is evident. 
