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VALERIANA PUBERULA Piper, sp. nov. 



Erect, from stout creeping rootstocks, 30 to 40 cm. high ; herbage 

 puberulent throughout ; leaves mostly basal, 5 to 8 cm. long, usually 

 lyrate, 3 to 7-lobed, the terminal lobe oblong or obovate, with a few 

 coarse teeth, the lateral lobes narrowly oblong and entire ; cauline 

 2 or 3 pairs, the upper much reduced, the lobes linear-oblong, more 

 conspicuously toothed ; cymes contracted, simple, or occasionally two 

 smaller ones from the axils of the bracts ; these linear-lanceolate, 

 entire or toothed ; bractlets sessile, lanceolate, hooded at base, atten- 

 uate-acute ; corolla 3 mm. long, white, short-funnelform, slightly 

 gibbous at base, its lobes obtuse, shorter than the tube ; stamens pro- 

 truding, the slender filaments glabrous ; ovary oblong-ovate, gla- 

 brous, the stigma slightly 3-lobed. 



Collected at the base of Castle Crest, Crater Lake, Klamath 

 County, Oregon, August 1, 1897, by Frederick V. Coville and Elmer 

 I. Applegate, no. 340. 



Type specimen. — Sheet no. 380,552, U. S. National Museum. 



Closely related to V. siichcnsis Bong., but at once distinguished by 

 its puberulence. 



