﻿BOTANICAL GAZETTE 



The inflorescence is short (15-35 mm.) and narrow, pedicels short (5-10 mm.) 

 and slender, densely pubescent in anthesis. The petals number about 4, very 



short but exceeding the stamens. These differences may be summarized as 

 follows: (1) leaves highly decompound, the leaf segments narrower, often 

 cuneate at base, (2) raceme short, containing fewer flowers, (3) stamens yellow. 



Specimens: F. E. and E. S. Clements 239, Jack Brook, Colorado, June 20, 

 1901 (two sheets; fruit red). Herb. Mo. Bot. Gard., type; C. F. Baker 318, 

 near Pagosa Peak, Colorado, August 1899, fruit white. 



A photograph of the Jack Brook Station by Clements shows a dense 

 group of the plants, so that several stems probably arise from one rootstock, as 

 in .1. viridijlora. The racemes in this group vary considerably in length and 

 most of them bear white berries, but in a few the berries are red. Evidently 

 there is free intercrossing of the type and the variety in Colorado, with blending 

 in foliage and length of raceme, while the red and white berries form a sharply 

 alternating character. 



6. Actaea caudata Greene, Ottawa Nat. 16:35. 1902. 

 Described from Chilliwack Valley, British Columbia (/. M. Macoun 3355° 



in part) . This species is insufficiently known and needs further study. A . can - 

 data seems to be chiefly characterized by (1 ) young petioles and leaflets minutely 

 villous, the latter along the veins beneath ; (2) upper face sprinkled with minute, 

 rigid shining appressed hairs; (3) leaflets with a long lance-linear perfectly 

 entire acumination; (4) petals 2 or more, two-thirds the length of the stamens, 

 blade elliptic with a flattened claw of the same length. The berries are 



Specimen: Shaw, Selkirk Flora, 279. 1904. 



7. Actaea asplenifolia Greene, Ottawa Nat. 16:35. 1902. 

 Described from Yakutat Bay, Alaska (Funston 14, 1892), and another 



specimen collected in Alaska by A . W. Gorman. It agrees closely with A . can- 

 data in the pubescence of leaves and stems, the caudate tips to the leaflets, 21 

 and the presence of usually two petals. The main distinguishing features are 

 (1) leaflets deltoid-lanceolate, incisely lobed to a greater degree than in other 

 species, the lobes serrate; (2) raceme very short and few-flowered; (3) petals 

 less than half the length of stamens, blade round-obovate or almost orbicular, 

 claw equally short. 



Specimens: Trelease and Saunders, Harrison Alaska Expedition 3786, 

 Yakutat Bay, Alaska, June 20, 1899; E. C. Smith, Seattle, Washington, 

 April 23, 1889; Mrs. Moore, Montana, 1894;" Frank H. Lamb 1353, Baldy 



» This specimen has a larger inflorescence than the type, and the leaf tips are 



