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Plant large, leaflets 6.5 cm. long, 4-5.5 cm. broad, ovate to oblong, often 

 obscurely 3-lobed, acuminate, rather coarsely incised-dentate, not caudate, 

 upper surface sprinkled with minute shining hairs as in A. caudata, lower 

 surface almost completely glabrous except for sparse minute hairs along the 

 main veins; inflorescence composed of only 3 or 4 flowers on short slender 

 pedicels 3-5 mm. long, bracts very small and inconspicuous; petals 2 on the 

 flowers observed, blade elliptic, passing gradually into a claw of nearly equal 

 length reaching nearly to the ends of the filaments; stamens 3-6 mm. in length; 

 pedicels and upper part of peduncle fine pubescent; berries unknown. 



Type specimen: Trelease and Saunders. Harriman Alaska Expedition 

 3785. Juneau. Alaska, June 8, 1899, Herb. Mo. Bot. Gard. 



5. Actaea viridiflora Greene, Pittonia 2:108. 1809. 



Described from open rocky places, Arizona, in flower July 10, 1889. 

 Since collected in New Mexico (0. B. Metcalfe 305, 372) and in southern 

 Colorado {Baker, Earle, and Tracy 235). The latter, however, has longer 

 and stouter pedicels 20 and is evidently a different thing. The following speci- 

 men is also referred to this species: C. F. Baker 681, Black Canyon, Colorado, 



This species appears to be well characterized by the following features: 

 (1) stems a cluster from a clump of roots; (2) flowering very late, leaves less 

 developed at time of flowering; (3) racemes reaching 5-6 inches long, par- 

 ticularly narrow, elongated and dense; (4) pedicels all of equal length, shorter 

 (6-13 mm.); and (5) "remarkably short greenish stamens." The petals 

 are said to be "rather numerous," ovate to nearly lanceolate, usually acutish, 

 little shorter than the stamens. 



white berries, but apparently differing in no other particular. The latter 



5«7. Ac taea viridiflora var. Clementiorum, n. var. — A forma 

 typica differt, folioliis angustioribus, saepe ad basim cuneatibus; 

 inflorescentia perbreve et floribus paucioribus; stamina flavis. 



This variety would be recognized as a separate species if it were sharply 

 marked off from the type of A . viridiflora, but in all characters, except perhaps 



form of the variety the leaves are much divided, and both the terminal and 

 lateral leaflets are for the most part cuneate at base, the teeth serrate. The 

 terminal leaflet is 5-6 cm. in length and 12-30 mm. in width at the widest part. 



"The flowering pedicels are longer and not so stout as in A. alba. All other 

 known forms have slender pedicels. 



