Plentiful on the plains of Shasta River, Siskiyou Co., Calif., apparently collected only by the present writer, in 1876. Both this and the preceding are of the Macharanthera subgenus.

Linanthus serrulatus. Freely and almost diffusely branching, 6 or 8 inches high, green and seemingly glabrous but the branches pubescent: leaf-segments and floral bracts all linear-acerose, glabrous, but the margins spinuloseserrate; calyx-segments more than twice the length of the tube, remotely serrate-ciliolate: corolla with slender darkpurple not far exserted tube, and narrowly funnelform throat, the limb of oblong-spatulate white segments expanding to the diameter of inch.

Near Madera, California, 1889, Mr. Buckminster.

Linanthus montanus. L. ciliatus, var. montanus, Greene, Pitt. ii. 260. Habit of L. ciliatus but larger, less hispid: corolla many times larger, nearly 2 inches long, with elongated tube gradually widening to a broadly funnelform purple throat, the limb of cuneate-obovate truncate whitish segments inch broad, yet apparently expanding not to the rotate, but only to the wide-funnelform.

Common at middle altitudes of the Sierra Nevada from Nevada Co., southward to the San Bernardino Mountains, from which southern station Mr. Parish has distributed it for L. androsaceus, to which it is not intimately related.

Linanthus nudatus. Slender, 3 to 10 inches high, with few and divergent branches; lower internodes not exceeding the short (inch long) leaves, the upper 1 to 3 inches long or more: branches puberulent: ordinary leaf-segments hispidulous-ciliate, the floral villous-ciliate: calyx scarious between the angles, the segments hirsute-ciliate: corolla with very slender long-exserted tube, short yellow throat, and white or purplish limb inch broad.

Probably common in Lake County, California. Well marked by its short foliage, long naked internodes and dense clusters of small flowers.

Linanthus luteolus. Very diffusely branching, 3 to 6 inches high, rather roughly hirsute-pubescent throughout, the leaves and leaf-like organs all destitute of any special marginal ciliation: mature calyx 5-parted almost to the base, perhaps when young less deeply cleft and with narrow scarious spaces below the sinuses: corolla yellow, with very slender tube, no throat, and a rotate limb about inch broad.

Cuyamaca Mountains in southern California, G. R. Vasey, June, 1880, and in Lower California, Mr. Orcutt, 1889.

All the foregoing new Linanthus species are of the Leptosiphon subgenus.

Sisyrinchium sarmentosum, Suksdorf in herb. Stem and leaves very slender, apparently ascending, 6 to 10 inches high: spathes very unequal, far exceeding the few pedicels: ovary and perianth delicately puberulent, the latter light blue, small, the segments all abruptly but slenderly acuminate: seeds very small, broadly pyriform, delicately but very regularly sinuate-rugose.

Borders of wet meadows in Skamania Co., Washington, at altitudes of 2,000 or 3,000 feet, August, distributed by Mr. Suksdorf under the above name, the fitness of which does not appear from the specimens, though the stems are said to be "sometimes rooting at the nodes." The species is an excellent one; the segments of the perianth not being in any degree notched at the apex, or even truncated, but simply acuminate.

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SUNDRY PROPOSITIONS,

Commended to the consideration of the most northwesterly editor of the Botanical Gazette.

WHEN an editor prefaces his contributor's paragraphs with words of sympathizing commendation, he is naturally ready to defend the matter thus contributed.

THE words Latin and latinity are, in the last Gazette, assumed to be synonymous. Before printing this, our

editorial friend should have instructed himself on the important point, that dictionaries of Latin and of latinity are books of widely different scope and character.

LATINITY is Latin plus many other things, including whatever rubbish of barbarian and mongrel verbal jugglery and clap-trap with Latin endings of us, a, um, etc., those innocent of grammar have fabricated and left on written record in ancient, or mediæval, or modern times.

WHEN there is question of such names as elatiocarpus or versicolorcarpus, of course a Lexicon of Latinity, and even of All Latinity must needs come into requisition. No Lexicon of Latin would serve but to condemn. Latin never knew, nor can ever know such terms.

QUERY. Will not old friends of the Gazette hide in deep humiliation confused faces, as they read on a page of this valued journal such brazen statements as that brevifolia and breviflora are mongrel terms, half Greek and half Latin, and that cuspidocarpus and lanocarpus are Latin legitimate and pure?

QUERY. When our two friends of the northwest, the Editor and the Astragalologer, combine their grammatic and literary skill in efforts to make another man appear given to hasty and unseemly speech in criticism, do not their sentences recall with delightful freshness, the homely half-forgotten fable of the pot that called the kettle black?

E. L. G.

NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.-XVI.

By EDWARD L. GREENE.

Clarkia virgata. Allied to C. rhomboidea, but almost cinereously puberulent throughout, and 2 or 3 feet high, with long suberect virgate branches rather densely floriferous throughout: leaves not thin, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 1 inch long or more: petals 4 lines long, rhombic-ovate, usually obscurely 3-lobed, retuse or emarginate, purple, dotted in the middle with dark red, the broad claw usually toothed: capsule 1 inch long, taper-pointed, scarcely incurved.

Species known to me only from Sonoma and Amador Counties, California, the collectors Mr. Bioletti and Mr. Hansen. The description of C. rhomboidea in the State Survey Botany seems made to cover both that species and this; but that has few ample thin leaves, few and scattered flowers, entire petals, and a pod which is short and stout as well as incurved almost to the semicircular.

Eriophyllum obovatum. Stem a foot high from a perennial root; branches few, stout, erect or ascending from a decumbent base, leafy up to the monocephalous terminal peduncles; only the lowest leaves opposite, and all, together with the branches, peduncles and involucres, densely whitetomentose: leaves all entire, an inch long or more, from obovate-spatulate to broadly oblanceolate: heads large, hemispherical; involucral bracts broad and few, apparently united toward the base: rays light yellow: corolla-tube glandular-hispidulous: achenes glabrous: pappus conspicuous, of about 8 very unequal paleæ, the longest being lanceolate, remotely lacerate-toothed, the others very short and obscure.

On the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California, at an altitude of about 5,000 feet, W. G. Wright and others;

ERYTHEA, Vol. III., No. 8 [15 August, 1895].

in the Synoptical Flora appended to the low and cespitose E. integrifolium of the far North, from which it is perfectly distinct.

Eriophyllum croceum. Slender, the several decumbent stems 8 to 18 inches high: foliage silky-lanate beneath, glabrate above: leaves of narrowly cuneate-obovate outline, of thin texture and coarsely toothed or lobed above the middle: monocephalous peduncles several, terminating the branches: heads hemispherical: bracts of involucre thinnish, 10 or 12; saffron-colored showy rays about as numerous: corolla-tube short, densely hispid: achenes sharply 4-angled, the angles toward the base white-callous: pappus of the ray none, of the disk of 4 very short and blunt somewhat incurved callous points rather than paleæ.

A most distinct species of the Amador and Calaveras County hills, collected by Mr. Hansen and also by Mr. Blasdale.

Erigeron Blasdalei. Stems a foot high, slender, rigid, tufted and decumbent from a ligneous base, equably leafy up to the terminal head or corymb of heads: leaves numerous, very narrowly linear, plane, 1 inches long or more, minutely and sparsely strigose-pubescent: heads 1 to 5, a half inch broad or more; bracts of the involucre linear-acuminate, imbricated in about 3 series: rays of medium width, very numerous, violet: achenes linear, strigose-pubescent but very sparsely so, and with lateral marginal rib but nerveless on the face: pappus-bristles slender, white.

In dry rocky soil, on the Stanislaus River, Calif., near McCormick's Bridge, 10 June, 1895, W. C. Blasdale.

SENECIO TRIANGULARIS, Hook., var. Hanseni. Stems only 1 or 2 feet high, slender, decumbent at base: leaves smaller than in the type, and of less angular outline, the lowest somewhat cordate-ovate, those of the middle part of the stem deltoid-ovate, the margins of all often merely denticulate: cluster of heads small and dense.