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New and noteworthy North American plants. 
JOHN M. COULTER AND ELMON M. FISHER. 
1. RANUNCULUS LAPPonicus L.—The range of this arctic 
species is usually stated as ‘‘Lat. 50° and northward.” Pro- 
fessor Macoun extends its range somewhat southward, in re- 
cording it from Prince Arthur’s Landing, Thunder Bay. We 
now have it from the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, 
where it was collected by Mr. L. S. Cheney, of the Univer- 
‘ity of Wisconsin, twenty miles northeast of Grand Marais. 
Mr. Cheney's specimens were collected in the same region as 
the imperfectly known Anemone nudicaulis Gray, which Dr. 
N. L. Britton has shown to be Ranunculus Lapponicus. 
2. Petalostemon glandulosus, n. sp.—Glabrous and glan- 
dular throughout: stems herbaceous, striate, leafy, 2 to 6™ 
gh, from a somewhat woody base: leaves 2 to 4™ long; 
leaflets six to twelve pairs, oblong or oblong-obovate, 5 to6™ 
&, obtuse or retuse, conspicuously black dotted beneath: 
fate, much 
be eee conspicuously glandular, 3 to 2 long, deeply 
on th noe. ‘the very minute greenish teeth pubescent 
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a fiefs talyx; the vexillum broadly cordate: pod pubes- 
1860) €.—Eastern Texas, at Hockley (F. W. Thurow, in 
ently “F Industry (H. Wurzlow, in 1892). Appar- 
ilttibored P. candidus Michx., in fact has probably been 
tatethroy he that Species; but differs in being strongly punc- 
Usually ‘ out,in the more numerous and short-oblong leaflets 
inently i spike, early deciduous bracts, and the prom- 
teeth, Sandular strongly oblique calyx with much shorter 
wk Astragalus Strigosus, n. sp. — Whole plant grayish 
leafy, wih “ppressed pubescence, erect, 17 to 25™ high, 
many very slender stems from a somewhat 
by ‘ Stipules triangular, acuminate; leaves 7 to. 
ng, wit : 
e (with: ten to sixteen distant flowers) 10 to ie 
‘S purplish, 1 long: calyx very strigose, the 
