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almost throughout, their small rudimentary anthers not divergent: pod narrowly linear, thin and flat, 2 inches long or more, arcuately recurved, glabrous.

On banks of the Navarro River, Mendocino Co., Calif., 1894, Miss Edith Byxbee. A delicate and beautiful species, with corolla more pronouncedly bilabiate than in any other member of what is now a rather large group with bilabiate flowers; a group which perhaps ought to be separated from Streptanthus altogether.

Erigeron Austinæ. Tufted and somewhat woody very leafy stems short and branching, each branch with a tuft of spatulate-linear erect hispid leaves, and a short scapiform leafless and monocephalous peduncle, this only about 3 or 4 inches high, and a third or one-half longer than the leaves: involucre hemispherical, inch broad or more, the flowers 100 or more; bracts narrow, equal, hispidulous: rays none: achenes rather short, silky-pubescent; pappus slender, fragile, apparently simple, certainly without paleæ.

Collected on Davis Creek, Modoc Co., California, May, 1894, by Mrs. Austin. Species with the subligneous and cespitose mode of growth seen in E. Bloomeri, but in aspect and character near E. poliospermus, from which it differs in discoid heads, a merely pubescent (not whitevillous) achene, and simple pappus.

Microseris intermedia. Slender and low, seldom more than 6 inches high: leaves all pinnately divided into linear segments: fruiting involucre broadly ovoid, scarcely 5 lines high: achenes short-cylindrical, barely a line long: palea of the pappus triangular-lanceolate, less than a line long, with thick brown mid-nerve, and white-scarious remotely serrate margins; the very slender brown awn about 2 lines long.

This is a part of the M. Bigelovii of Gray's writings, and of my Manual; but I have long felt that it needed recognition as a distinct species. Its characters are constant; and the plant is not associated with M. Bigeloviï in habitat. It belongs to clayey or gravelly slopes of hills; M. Bigelovii to low flats near salt marshes.

Hieracium amplum. Stoutish, 2 or 3 feet high, amply leafy up to the rather broad corymbose panicle, but no radical tuft of foliage: leaves oblong-spatulate, acutish, entire, 4 to 6 inches long, hirsute along the margins, and with scattered appressed hairs on both faces; upper cauline leaves and branches of the inflorescence pale and glaucescent, seemingly glabrous, but somewhat tomentose-puberulent under a lens: involucres about 5 lines high, loosely calyculate, the subequal bracts dark with black setulose stout hairs, otherwise glabrous: ligules yellow: achenes columnar, or even slightly widening to the summit; pappus white.

On Mt. Paddo, Washington, on hillsides at 6000 to 7000 ft. alt. W. N. Suksdorf, 27 Sept., 1893.

Bolelia cuspidata. Erect, slender, 6 inches high or more, with few and small leaves and few remote flowers: lower lip of corolla broadly trefoil-shaped, nearly 6 lines broad, only 4 lines deep, the broadly ovate lobes retuse, or evenly distinctly obcordate, abruptly and cuspidately pointed, the terminal half violet, the lower portion white, the white spot ending truncately or obcordately; the undivided part of the lip yellow, plane or nearly so, i. e., without folds or protuberances or depressions; lobes of the upper lip 11 lines long, spatulate-obovate, cuspidately acute, slightly divergent, straight, deep violet, with lines and reticulations of darker color.

In a low place in a grain field west of Yountville, Napa Co., Calif., 11 May, 1895: also in more slender form, with smaller and paler flowers, in Los Guilucos Valley, Sonoma Co., June, 1893, F. T. Bioletti.

Species most related to B. bicornuta, perhaps, but the configuration of the corolla far more simple. In coloring the corolla is almost like that of B. pulchella, but in form it is very different.

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PHYTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND AMENDMENTS.-II.

By EDWARD L. GREENE.

THE genus LITHOPHRAGMA (Nutt., in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 584) rests upon as good a combination of characters as any of the saxifrageous genera that are not monotypical. The herbarium botanist can not know how strong a character it has in its corolla, the two upper petals of which are smaller than the others, and usually entire, while the other three are variously cleft; though none are pinnatifid. In habit, the plants are all farther removed from Tellima than they are from typical Saxifraga itself.

The species not yet named under LITHOPHRAGMA are the following:

L. scabrella. Tellima scabrella, Greene, Pitt. ii. 162: Fl. Fr. 193.

L. tripartita. Tellima tripartita, Greene, Eryth. i. 106 (1893).

L. Williamsii. Heuchera Williamsii, D. C. Eaton, Bot. Gaz. xv. 62 (1890). Tellima nudicaulis, Greene, Pitt, ii. 162 (1891).

The following appears to be quite new:

L. rupicola. Stems often 2 or 3 from the small grumous root, not very slender, a foot high or more, rather strongly hispidulous-scabrous throughout: lowest leaves from roundreniform to round-ovate in outline, deeply 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes again 3-lobed; petioles long, each with a large bulblet in its axil; cauline leaves of more angular outline, doubly cleft into narrow segments: raceme elongated, 12 to 20flowered; fruiting pedicels nearly twice the length of the calyx: hemispherical base of the calyx adherent to the ovary, the body in maturity obviously 10-striate, the lobes short and obtuse: petals white, all deeply palmatifid, the 2

upper much smaller than the others: capsule 3-valved at apex and the valves well exserted: seeds striate lengthwise but neither muricate nor obviously granular.

Lava beds of Modoc County, Calif., June, 1894; growing in the shade of junipers. Collected by Mrs. R. M. Austin.

A recent study of the herbarium types in a certain group of Californian species of Gilia, supplementing some years of observation of them in the field, enables me to present the following, in place of what was given on page 147 of Gray's Synoptical Flora.

G. MILLEFOLIATA, Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Petr. 35 (1838). This is a slender often widely branching plant, with scattered small flowers, very common in western California, where it has of late years been known, according to the teaching of Asa Gray, as G. multicaulis, from which species it differs in its glandular-pilose pubescence, but more strikingly in the size, form and marking of its corolla. This organ is small, inconspicuous, and always 2-colored; the small acutish spreading lobes being white or bluish, the scarcely dilated throat being always marked with five large dark spots, one below each lobe. The plant is much more related to G. tricolor than to the next with which it has been confused. Its corollas are, like those of G. tricolor, never open except in the middle of the day, while in all the following they are open from very early morning until nightfall.

G. MULTICAULIS, Benth. Bot. Reg. under t. 1622: G. achilleafolia, Benth. 1. c., a larger form, well figured in Bot. Reg. t. 1682, not of A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 147, nor of Greene, Man. 248. Plant often 2 feet high, glabrous except the glandularhirsute calyx: branches either many and with very few flowers at the ends, or few and with large densely cymose clusters: calyx mainly herbaceous, the scarious spaces below the sinuses extremely narrow; segments also wholly herbaceous, erect: corolla with short tube, and broad funnelform

throat, the latter about equalling the obovate acute segments, the whole dark violet, without markings: anthers also deep violet, on short filaments and wholly included within the limb of the corolla.

The type specimens in the Benthamian herbarium at Kew show that the original G. multicaulis and achilleœfolia of that author are not distinct. The latter name is more appropriate, as applying to the larger and more showy form figured so beautifully in the Botanical Register; and especially since this form is the common one in nature; the smaller, many-stemmed state being less frequent. The transference of the name G. achilleaefolia to a very different plant of the sea-board sand-hills, accomplished by Asa Gray, but attributed to Bentham, was without any warrant; for Bentham never knew that plant; at least, there is none of it in his herbarium; and apparently it has never been in cultivation in Europe.

G. abrotanifolia, Nutt. mss. in herb. Brit. Mus. Nearly glabrous, 1 to 2 feet high, simple, or with few ascending branches, these and the upper part of the main stem naked and pedunculiform, bearing a terminal dense cymose cluster of large blue flowers: leaves ample, even the cauline tripinnately dissected, the ultimate segments linear and spatulatelinear, spreading or curving backwards, very acute: calyx nearly or quite glabrous, mainly hyaline, only a broad midvein truly herbaceous, the segments acute, not connivent: corolla large, apparently blue without markings; throat ample-funnelform, lobes spreading, obovate, obtuse: stamens scarcely exserted:

In the Santa Inez Mountains, back of Santa Barbara, Calif., 21 May, 1891, G. W. Dunn. Collected in the same region many years earlier, by Nuttall, whose specimens, labelled as above indicated, are in the British Museum. Almost the same thing, but with rather smaller corollas, the stamens not at all exserted, is distributed by Mr. Parish, from the San Bernardino region, as "G. achilleæfolia."

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