That any of these forms are to be referred to R. occiden talis, Nutt., is a view which no man acquainted with the plants can entertain. He who asserts it should be ready to maintain that the eastern R. recurvatus may be relegated to R. hispidus as a variety; for that were quite as reasonable. Both R. occidentalis and R. Bongardi have their own extremes of variation, each within its own good specific limits.

RANUNCULUS NELSONII, A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 374 in part. R. recurvatus var. Nelsonii, DC. Syst. i. 290. To this species Gray referred, twenty years ago, the plants which he long afterwards designated as a var. robustus of R. occidentalis, namely my R. Turneri. But it is evident that he never at any time took the pains of looking up, while in England, the type specimens of R. Nelsonii; probably contenting himself with an inference that Bongard's Alaskan plant, which he did see, must be the same. Nelson's specimens, which DeCandolle saw in the herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks, and which are the only type specimens of the species, are now in the herbarium of the British Museum, and they represent something so very different from my R. Turneri that I am unable to reduce my species to R. Nelsonii. This is a plant with stout somewhat fleshy stem, very hirsute; the leaves are ample and numerous, the peduncles, as DeCandolle described them, so short as not to surpass the leaves to which they are axillary, until after the flowering, when they are of course somewhat elongated. The flowers, though much smaller than in R. Turneri, do not at all approach those of R. Bongardi. The only other specimens which I can refer to R. Nelsonii have been collected in Alaska, some by Kellogg, others by Harrington. Some of these are in fruit, and exhibit a rather large achene, with triangular-subulate hooked beak.

Tellima racemosa. Heuchera racemosa, S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 365. This plant, as being a second species of

genuine Tellima, that is, a strict and close congener of T. grandiflora, becomes one of the more instructive and important of recently detected saxifrageous herbs; and it is certainly to be taken as a new argument for the restoration of Lithophragma to generic rank; for all these plants, now forming the vastly preponderant part of so-called Tellima, are utterly at variance with the type of that genus in habit, and in very constant characters of the corolla.

The species of Tellima here under special notice has not so much as one character of Heuchera. The following five points each and all declare it to be a Tellima: (1) racemose inflorescence: (2) valvate calyx-segments: (3) lacerate petals: (4) short and included stamens: (5) seeds not muricate. As to vegetative characters: the flowers are not borne on axillary naked peduncles, but on a terminal leafy stem. That the stamens are 5 rather than as in other Heuchera 10, is at best a feeble argument to be brought forward against the five or six reasons, each one conclusive, for seeing it a Tellima; and to prove the worthlessness of this technicality of the mere number of stamens, one need only look into that genus which is the very next of kin, i. e., Mitella, to find some species with 5, others with 10 stamens.

SUKSDORFIA VIOLACEA, A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xv. 42 (1879). This elegant little herb of the far Northwest, supposed to have been first detected by Suksdorf in 1878, was really first obtained by David Douglas more than a half century earlier. Two small specimens of it are in the herbarium of the British Museum, mounted alongside a Lithophragma of Douglas' collecting, the whole bearing the legend, "Sandy soil, near Kettle Falls of the Columbia, 1826."

Among the Borragineous genera proposed by me as new, in the first volume of Pittonia, those concerning the validity of which I felt that no reasonable doubt could be entertained

were Allocarya and Sonnea. It is true that not only these but all the genera new and old which I then defended, are sustained by Baillon in his Histoire and also by Engler & Prantl; but until last year I felt more or less apprehension that Allocarya at least might be found to have some North European representatives; and that some such possible species might have been elevated to generic rank, under a name that might antedate the publication of the earliest pages of Pittonia. I had been not without apprehension that Eritrichium obovatum, A. DC., might prove to be an Allocarya; but on seeing good material of this at Kew, I discovered at once that it has no intimate connection with the Northwest American plants. It is a Lappula, rather. But the following are at complete agreement, both in habit and character with ALLOCARYA.

A. Australasica. Eritrichium Australasicum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 134. Native of Australia, and resembling A. plebeia of the Aleutian Islands; but the nutlets are more incurved than in any North American species. DeCandolle describes the corolla as yellow. In all the other known species they are white, but with a yellow band or circle surrounding the orifice of the short corolla-tube, and this is probably the real case here also.

A. albiflora. Eritrichium albiflorum, Griseb, in Gott. Abh. vi. 131. Species indigenous to the Straits of Magellan.

A. tenuifolia. Krynitzkia tenuifolia (Schlecht.), A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 267-Eritrichium tenuifolium, Schlecht. Mss. in Lechler's Planta Chilenses. Native of Chile.

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FURTHER ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

By S. B. PARISH.

Within the last few years several lists have been published of additions to the Flora of the southern counties of the State, but our knowledge of it is yet far from being complete. Other plants, before undetected, continue to be discovered in our region, and in the present paper I wish to make a record of some of them.

When it is considered that, owing to the peculiar climatic conditions here existing, the Flora, far from being homogenous, presents a constant variation, so that in whatever geographical direction exploration is pursued, plants of one area are successively disappearing and those of another taking their places, and that while much of the ground has been quite thoroughly gone over, an inviting portion yet remains which has received only a cursory examination; it is reasonable to expect that very considerable further additions will be made to the number of plants now known. Those already reported number almost twenty-one hundred species and varieties of flowering plants. With a more complete knowledge of the entire district, it will probably be found that not less than twenty-five hundred seed-bearing plants grow within its limits.

Those named in the following list, not otherwise credited, were collected by the writer. Those designated by an have not before been reported from this State. My thanks are due to the botanical authorities who have passed upon some difficult species, and to the correspondents who have favored me with valuable specimens.

SAGITTARIA ARIFOLIA, Nutt. J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. vi. 6. Bluff Lake, alt. 7,400 ft., in the San Bernardino Mts. On the 20th of June, when these plants were observed, only phyllodia and a few immature leaves had been formed, so that the determination is mostly based on geographical

considerations. The phyllodia are very narrow and lax, and on emerging bend at right angles, the upper part floating on the surface of the water.

*ARISTIDA PURPUREA, Nutt., var. FENDLERIANA, Vasey, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. iii. 46. Rose Mine, alt. 6,000 ft., eastern slope of the San Bernardino Mts. Identified by Prof. W. T. Beal.

AGROSTIS VULGARIS, With. Naturalized about San Bernardino, in meadows and by roadsides.

AGROSTIS EQUIVALVIS, Trin. Bear Valley, alt. 6,500 ft., in the San Bernardino Mts.

POA UNILATERALIS, Scribner. Vasey, Grasses Pac. Slope, ii, t. 85. Bear Valley.

HEMICARPHA OCCIDENTALIS, Gray. On a wet sand bar, Bluff Lake.

SCIRPUS PAUCIFLORUS, Lightf. Eleocharis pauciflora, Link, Bear Valley. Identified by Dr. N. L. Britton.

CAREX ALMA, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, i. 50. Acton, Los Angeles Co., Dr. H. E. Hasse.

CAREX ILLOTA, Bailey, 1. c., 15. Bluff Lake.

CAREX OCCIDENTALIS, Bailey, 1. c., 14. Eastern end of the Santa Monica Range, Los Angeles Co. Hasse.

CAREX QUADRIFIDA, Bailey, var. LENIS, Bailey, Proc. Cal. Acad., 2d Ser. iii. 105. Bluff Lake.

CAREX STERILIS, Willd. Bluff Lake.

CAREX SUBFUSCA, W. Boott. Bear Valley.

CAREX VULGARIS, Fr., var. BRACTEOSA, Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 81. San Jacinto Mts. Hasse. The above carices have been identified by Prof. L. H. Bailey.

JUNCOIDES COMOSUM, Sheldon, var. MACRANTHERUM (Wats.) Luzula comosa, var. macranthera, Wats. Seeley's Flat, alt. 5,000 ft. San Bernardino Mts.