Geum uniflorum, Buchanan. n. sp.

A small herb, 6–8 inches high; rhizome, prostrate, stout, woody. Leaves 1 ½–2 inches long, pinnate; leaflets, one pair, very small, crenate; terminal leaflet, reniform, 1 inch broad, obtusely crenate, nearly glabrous on both surfaces, but with a marginal row of pencils of stiff orange hairs on the edges of the crenatures. Flower, large, 1–1 ¼ inches dia., white, terminal on a

slender villous stem. Calyx lobes, oblong, obtuse, villous. Styles, subulate, tips hooked, villous at bottom, with long hairs.

Allied to Geum parviflorum, and distinguished by the large single flower, orange pencils of hairs on the crenatures, and minute single pair of leaflets. Habitat, mountains of Nelson, 3000–4000 feet alt. Collected by Mr. H. H. Travers.