14 inches long, only inch broad, not cruciform, the petals diverging in pairs: anthers slenderly sagittate, the 4 longer ones exserted: pods long, slender, almost spreading, the crosssection sharply rhombic.

A large plant of the hills of the Mt. Diablo Range, California, growing only on open grassy summits; the pale flowers large and delightfully fragrant. It can hardly be the E. grandiflorum, Nutt., which is to be sought at Monterey, but which is unknown to Californian botanists of recent times.

Ribes Wilsonianum. Rigid and low shrub, with smooth branchlets and 1 to 3 spines at each node: growing parts and leaves more or less villous with a short pubescence: leaves small, rounded, 5-lobed, the lobes and teeth acute: peduncles rather slender, mostly 3-flowered: bracts persistent, broadly ovate, acuminate-cuspidate, villous: ovary short-prickly, scarcely villous: calyx dark red, the cylindric or slightly funnelform tube 3 lines long; segments acute, about as long: petals scarcely a line long, thinnish, white with red veins, cuneate-quadrate, nearly truncate and scarcely erose at apex, and with narrow and abruptly inflexed margins: filaments scarcely equalling the petals; anthers connivent, with prominent cusp bent outwards.

This has been grown for two seasons in the Botanic Garden at Berkeley, the living shrub having been sent from the mountains of Kern Co., Calif., in 1893, by Norman C. Wilson. Herbarium specimens of the same, I had, in the Flora Franciscana, referred to R. amictum; but the living plant is of very different aspect, and the floral characters of the new species are excellent.

Mentzelia Nelsonii. Annual, 2 or 3 feet high, freely and widely branching, the stoutish branches with a sparingly hispidulous whitish bark: lower leaves unknown, those of the branches from distinctly hastate-ovate to almost deltoidovate, 1 or 2 inches long, coarsely toothed or not indistinctly lobed, both faces green and rather sparsely appressed

hispidulous, the hairs of the upper surface stouter and more enlarged at base: flowers many, small, orange-colored, sessile or nearly so, in the forks and axils: ovary subcylindric, less than inch long at flowering time and after: calyx-lobes slenderly subulate at flowering, almost as long as the ovary: petals 5 only, about 4 lines long: stamens few; filaments nearly filiform: anthers suborbicular: capsule and seeds unknown.

Eastern Wyoming, in cañons leading to the Platte River, 13 July, 1894, Prof. A. Nelson. A very well marked species, apparently annual, and certainly allied to the Mexican M. aspera, but much larger and more diffusely branching, the leaves relatively broader.

Dodecatheon glastifolium. Crown depressed, small, bearing rather few and short roots: leaves few, mostly oblong-lanceolate, rarely broader, 3 inches long or more including the distinct and rather slender petiole, entire, obtusish, the whole herbage glabrous and glandless: scape solitary, a foot high; umbel of only from 1 to 5 long-pedicelled flowers: corolla lilac-purple with a broad yellow band below the segments: stamens 4, distinct; connective with broadly subulate plicate-rugose base and long filiform extension reaching to the summit of the anther: capsule large, nearly inch long, thin-walled, circumscissile; style stout, slender-conical below the middle.

Lava Beds of Modoc Co., Calif., Mrs. Austin, 1894.

DODECATHEON HENDERSONII, var. Hanseni. Leaves of firmer texture than in the type, narrower and quite entire; the whole plant quite glabrous: united portion of the corolla much broader: androecium shorter and less tapering; elevated and rugulose part of the connective oblong-lanceolate, tapering at both ends; anthers with spreading or recurved tips.

Foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Amador Co., Calif., Geo. Hansen. The androecium in this plant is so very unlike

that of the true D. Hendersonii that one can hardly doubt its being of a distinct species; yet in general appearance it is quite like the type.

DODECATHEON PATULUM, var. Bernalinum. Rather smaller than the type, deeper green, the stem and pedicels purple-dotted: segments of the corolla mainly of a rosepurple, the basal and united portion of a dark purple, this encircled by a broad band of white or pale cream-color: andrœcium more elongated than in the type and manifestly tapering, the anthers narrower and erect, never spreading away from the style.

Known only from the highest summit of Bernal Heights, San Francisco, where it is plentiful, flowering in March.

DODECATHEON PATULUM, var. gracile. More slender than the type, the leaves narrower: segments of the corolla white, linear, narrow, elegantly twisted.

Grown in the Botanic Garden at Berkeley; the roots having been brought by Mr. Davy, from the slopes of Loma Prieta in Santa Clara Co., Calif. An exceedingly beautiful variety—if a mere variety of the species so common on the low plains of the interior of the country.

Solanum cupuliferum. Stems very numerous, slender, decumbent or almost prostrate, woody at base; branches and foliage green and papillose scabrous, the short simple incurved hairs strongly pustulate at base: leaves ovate and ovate-lanceolate 1 or 2 inches long, transversely rugose, the margin crisped: flowers in lateral and terminal umbel-like clusters, the slender pedicels 1 inch long or more: calyx campanulate, cleft to the middle; lobes quadrate or quadrateobovate, cuspidate-pointed: corolla inch broad, exactly rotate; lobes nearly truncate, but with a prominent triangular acute cusp.

Hills of the Coast Range of California, from Marin and Napa Counties northward. Related to S. umbelliferum, but with different pubescence; the plant usually almost her

baceous and depressed; the expanded corolla quite flat, that of S. umbelliferum being wavy by the elevation of the middle of each lobe and the depression of the corresponding parts opposite the sinuses.

Mimulus marmoratus. Annual, slender, decumbent, 4 to 8 inches high, sparsely and very delicately glandularvillous, not slimy; internodes numerous, 1 inch long or more, acutely angled: leaves red beneath, subreniformovate, to inch long, saliently toothed, short-petiolate, the floral subsessile: peduncles exceeding the leaves and as long as the internodes, slender: calyx only slightly bilabiate when young, in maturity round-ovoid in outline and with only the upper segment obvious, the tube 4 or 5 lines long, dark with a very abundant mottling or marbling of dark red, the sinuses strongly woolly ciliate: corolla nearly 1 inch long, with very slender tube and ample bilabiate limb, this with smallish lateral lobes, the middle one ample, hairy, with a large dark red spot, and many dots behind this,

On moist rocks at Knight's Ferry, Stanislaus Co., Calif., 9 April, 1895, Mr. Frank W. Bancroft.

Crepis Bakeri. Stoutish and low, seldom a foot high, neither woolly nor even cinereous, the pubescence rather scanty and mostly hirsutulous: leaves half as long as the stem, deeply pinnatifid into oblong and spatulate spreading lobes, or merely coarsely toothed, or in small plants quite entire: stem parted from the middle or below it, into 3 to 6 pedunculiform monocephalous branches: involucre inch high, with both long and short slenderly acuminate bracts: achenes acutely costate, tapering from the middle.

In pine woods, near Egg Lake, Modoc Co., Calif., 8 June, 1894, Milo S. Baker. A member of the group to which C. occidentalis belongs, but exhibiting none of the tomentose pubescence usual to this group; the involucre peculiar.

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A NEW VIOLET.

By FRANCIS E. LLOYD.

While exploring in the Cascade Mountains southeast of Mount Hood during the last summer, a small violet came to my notice, which, after comparison with closely allied forms, proves, I think, to be a distinct species. The smallness of the plant, with its delicate, semi-transparent white petals, at once attracted my attention, and decided in my own mind its relationships. I shall call it

Viola Macloskeyi. Rootstock slender, creeping, bearing three or four leaves, and at length a few runners: leaves reniform; sinus shallow; the lamina slightly decurrent down the slender petiole, the margin obscurely crenateserrate: the whole plant glabrous: stipules ovate, acute: peduncles 1 to 3 inches long, bearing two minute, subulate bracts: petals white, very thin, translucent, the spur very short; the lateral petals bearded, the venation of the lower petal indistinct.

Mossy, springy places in the Cascades, Oregon, differing from V. blanda and V. palustris in the size and character of the spur, and by the entire absence of color from the petals, and their translucency.

The species is named in honor of Professor George Macloskey, of the College of New Jersey, Princeton.