ccnipis.: oe aa a aF ‘6 ee 7 : > AY G > = 2 VE ey » ddiaaa > 5 eGareremen =) = ——— pr ee Dax } Z LIBRARY THE NEW Yor" - °° >.4!. GARDEN BRONX, NEw YORK 10458 STN iy ba ve VUIUING | plerumque 6-loba, circumscriptione cordata, ampla, supra hir- utula, subtus glabra pallidiora, punctis resinosis adspersa, iobis ere subreguilariter incisis duplicato-serratis. Racemi saepe in ramulis terminales primum erecti, fructiferi defiexi, valde elongati spithamaei. Rachis robusta glabriuscula. Pedi- celli semi-unciam longi pubescentes, erecto-patentes, stricti, non raro oppositi, bractea spathuliformi nunc ad basin racemi foli- osa lobata distinete petiolata, lobis acutissimis. Flores purpu- rascenti-fayvi. Calyx Rtas: iobi obtusissimi petalis rotundatis 3-plo majeres. Germen globesum, punctis na ee resinosis adspersum. Bacca nigra maguitudine (vix matura) R. rezdrz, resinoso-punctata. Fue North-West coast of America, at the confluence of the Co- lumbia with the ocean. Dr. Scouler, Douglas. This isa remarkable species, with leaves nearly as large as, and tesemb- ling those of Acer Psendo-platanus,; these as well as the fructi- fied racemes have a very strong resemblance to the A. macro- botrys of Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. t. 232, but the flowers are widely different. Tn California this species occurs only in the north coast region from Mendo- cino county north. It is found as far north as Alaska. 3. Ribes laxiflorum: Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 732. 1814. Ribes acerifolinm. Howell, Erythea, 3: 34. 1895. Ribes Howell Greene, Erythea, 4: 57. 1896. R. inerme; foliis cordatis 5-lobis inciso-dentatis glabris, petiolis gracilibus, racemis laxis erectis longitudine folorum, bracteis subulatis, pedicellis elongatis, calycibus caimpanulato- tubulatis, baccis globosis hispidis. On the north-west coast. Menzies. v. s. in Herb. Banks. The flowers appear to be yellow, about the size of R. floredum. Recorded from Humboldt Bay, California, collected by.Chandler. There seems to be considerable confusion concerning this species, for Pursh character- izes the calyx as campanulate-tubular, while Torrey and Gray in Fl. N. A. de- scribe it as rotate, the petals broadly flabelliferm. Howell, in his Flora of Northwest America, also describes the calyx as rotate, but says the petals are narrowly spatulate. The species as now known is perhaps an aggregate. 4. Eibes cereum Dougl. Bot. Register, pl. 1263. 18209. Inerme, foliis subrotundis obtuse trilobis crenatis viscidis, tacemis 3-5 floris pendulis pubescentibus longitudine foliorum, ealycibus tubulatis laciniis ovatis reflexis: petala subreniformia duplo excedentibus, bracteis cuneiformibus apice dentatis, bac- cis rubris glabris. ‘This bush is of more humble stature and slender habit than the one [vzscostssimum | last mentioned, growing erect, about five or six feet high, with white smooth bark on the old branches. The young shoots which are curved and flexible, are 72 covered with a brown, viscid, scentless, glutinous substance, which, when exposed to the sun, acquires a rough, hardened, waxy, warty, sppearance. ‘The leaves are nearly round, bluntly three-lobed, crenate, scarcely an inch long, of a leathery texture, and almost veinless, clothed on the upper surface with white and (in dry weather) hardened waxy minute granulations, quite smooth below; footstalks somewhat longer than the leaves. The clusters are dense, of the same length as the leaves, three or five flowered, slightly pubescent, hanging in great profusion below the branches, with scarcely any partial footstalks; bracteas wedge-shaped, glandular and toothed at the apex. The calyx is tubular, imperfectly four-sided, white, pink at the base, three- fourths of an inch long, with rounded, short, reflected segments, double the length of the minute, somewhat kidney-shaped pet- als. Filaments same length as the petals; style shghtly cloven. Berry spherical, small, red and glossy, thin skinned, rarely con- taining more than three large seeds, and a great quantity of in- sipid, viscid, red juice. On dry exposed decayed granite rocks or schist, throughout the chain of the river Columbia from the great falls 45 degrees, 46 minutes, 17 seconds N. Lat. to the sources of that stream in the Rocky mountains 52 degrees, 07 minutes, og seconds. This is a common shrub, flowering in March and April, and ripening its fruit in June. The above description is taken from the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, volume 7, page 512. 1830, and although according to the date is not the original one, is probably more complete, being by Douglas himself. This spe- cies, or probably aggregate of several species, is widely diffused, occurring throughout the entire Rocky Mountain system, and through the Sierras of Cal- ifornia, crossing from thence by way of the Tehachapi into the high mountains of Ventura county in the southern Coast Range. 5. Ribes viscosissimum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 163. 1814. R. inerme; omnibus partibus pilis viscidis tectum; foliis cordatis obtuse trilobis serratis, racemis erectis brevibus, calyci- 73 bus tubulatis, petalis oblongis, bracteis lineari-spathulatis pedi- cello duplo brevioribus germinibus hirsutis. On the Recky-mountain in the interior of North America. M. Lewis. June. wv. s. x Herb. Lewis. Flowers large, yel- low; the whole plant covered with viscous hairs.. This species approaches near to XR. glandulosum. fl. peruy. 3. p. 13. t. 233. /- 6. It differs principally in the leaves being equally lobated, not having the middle lobe projecting; its long sleader pedicels, and . petals. ~ Douglas, who was acquainted with this species in the field, gives the best GeSeription Of itn) Mrans One NSOCN 7G Dkcneg ers a “This is a large branching bush, six to eight feet high, with perfectly smooth dark red bark; the viscid glandular pubescence which clothes the young shoots, like the preceding [7. sangwineum], disappears with the white, thin, deciduous bark in spring. The leaves are heart shaped, three-lobed, serrate on the edges, rugose and veiny, three and a half inches in length, two and a half in breadth, on footstalks of nearly equal length, everywhere clothed with a copious clammy, glandular pubescence, which emits when touched, a peculiar scent, like that of old apples. The flowerstalks are lax, nearly double the length of the leaves, equally pubescent and glutinous. The calyx fs tubular, short, swollen or ven- tricose in the middle, with lanceolate, spreading, and somewhat waved seg- ments of a faint yellow color, fragrant. The petals are ovate, white, one-third shorter than the limb of the calyx, and of the same length with the stamens. Style slightly cloven. The berry is turbinate, the fourth of an inch long, hairy, dark brown or black, with a thick, tough skin. Like R. sanguineum, the seeds are small, very numerous, adhering together by a small quantity of colorless, slimy flnid, having no true pulp. * The flavor of the berries is musky, or mawk- ish, and so disagreeable that two or three are sufficieot to produce vomiting. No animal, so far as I know, touches it, excepting a species of Myoxus, which feeds on the leaves and berries in summer, and on the bark during the winter months. '/ “Tt is an inhabitant only of the subalpine range of the highest mountains, abounding in dry fissures of limestone rocks, flowering in May, and ripening its fruit in August. On the hills around the Kettle Falls of the Columbia river, in 48° 37’ 40” N. Latitude, 118° W. Longitude, at an elevatiou of 8000 feet above the level of the sea, it forms a principal part of the brushwood, and is equally plentiful on the western declivities of the Rocky mountains, between the para- llels of 46° and 52° N. Latitude.”’ The species is not uncommon in California in the northern Sierras, and oc- curs as far south as Mariposa county. 74 6. Rides samguineum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 164. 1814: ) LL v R. inerme; foliis cordatis trilobis serratis venoso-lineatis supra glabris, subtus tenui tomento albicantibus, racemis laxis pubescentibus foliis duplo loagioribus, calycibus tubulatis, pet- alis eblongis longitudine calycis, bractels obovato-spathulatis co) o ey, ) longitudine pedicellorum, geminibus hirsutis. 5 Je 1S : On the Columbia river. AZ. Lewis. March. vw. s. mm Hero. Lewts. Flowers beautiful, of a blood red or purple; brauches purple. It approaches near to R. albinervium. Fl. peruv. 3. p. WEY EL Davee Ob Credited to California from Del Norte county. Douglas, who also gave an extended description of this species in Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 509. 1830, says con- cerning its history: ‘‘So long ago as the year 1787, my esteemed friend, Archi- bald Menzies, Esq., during his first voyage around the world, discovered this species near Nootka Sound, and, subsequently on his secoad voyage with the celebrated Vancouver, in 1792, found it again on various points of the coast of North-west America. From that period to 1814, it lay unnoticed in our her- baria, when the above quoted author described it, partly from specimens col- Jected in 1805 by the enterprising American travelers, Lewis and Clarke, during their memorable journey, and partly from specimens deposited by Mr. Menzies, in the Herbarium of the late Sir Joseph Banks, and that of the British Museum.”’ Although Pursh may have examined the specimens collected by Menzies, his published description is based wholly upon the specimens of Lewis. 7. Ribes Seuphami Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. IIL. Bot. 2: 242. pl. 23. f. 2a and 2b. 1902. Shrub with the upper bark reddish, shreddy, puberulent, unarmed. Jeaves orbicular, three- to five-lobed, truncate to ren- iform at base, 2-5cm. wide, about as long, unevenly dentate; up- per surface pubescent with crisp, spreading hairs; lower canes- cent with matted hairs, stipular dilation of the petiole broad, glandular, and tomentose, fringed with glandular hairs; petioles about as long as the blades, with pubescence like the stipuies. Racemes numerous at the ends of the-branches, gcm. long, slen- der, when flowering erect on peduncles which are shorter than the leaves; bracts oblanceolate, red, glandular, 8mm. long, den- ticulate at apex; pedicels filiform, erect, a little longer than the bracts. Flowers subtended by two small, red bracteoles which 7 75 are soon deciduous. Calyx rose-color, with tube 5mm. long, divisions linear-oblong, 7mm. long. Petals white turning red- dish, oblanceolate, cuneate, 4mm. long. Stamensa little shorter than the petals; anthers globular. Ovary sparingly pubescent, and with scattered, stipitate glands. This is nearest to Rzbes sanguineum Pursh. It differs especially in having the racemes erect in flower, also in the more slender flowers with narrower divisions. This species is the most beautiful of all belonging to the group of which R&. san- guineum is the type. It was collected on Smith River, Del Norte County, Cali- fornia, by Major J. R. Scupham, May, 1898. It is a pleasure to name this plant in honor of oae who has brought many inter- esting plants to the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences from little explored parts of California. 8. Ribes glutinosum Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. Il. 1: 476. 1835. Inerme, foliis cordatis subquinquelobis serratis venosis utrin- que glabriusculis subviscosis, racemis 30-40 floris laxis pubes- centibus folio duplo triplove longioribus, pedicellis flore longior- ibus, calycibus tubuloso-campanulatis: laciniis oblongis obtusis patentibus petala (rubra) integerrima superantibus, bracteis ob- longo-lanceolatis, baccis turbinatis hirsutis. The few plants raised of this species have not yet flowered, but from the dried specimens transmitted by Mr. Douglas, it promises to exceed the R. sanguineum in beauty; in foliage it only differs from that species by being destitute of down, and slightly viscous; but the bunches of flowers are twice the length, containing at least from thirty to forty flowers, which are borne on long slender pedicels. "The flowers are red, but the dried state of the specimen does not admit of any opinion being formed as to the intensity of the color. It is quite hardy, and grows vigorously in common garden soil. Torrey and Gray describe the style as 2-cleft at the apex, and Greene adds “berry blue with a dense bloom, and glandular-hispid.”’ It is apparently re- 76 stricted to the lower hills of the Coast mountains of middle California, from at least Monterey on the south to Sonoma on the north, growing on moist banks of streams and other damp places. Greene says ‘‘In flower from January (or even Dec.) to March.’’ ’ I have found it in bloom only in late March and early April. In his Manual, 124. 1894, Greene describes a variety melanocarpum of this species, which has “‘ripe derries black, without any trace of bloom,’ which oc- curs ‘‘at Berkeley, and in Santa Clara Co.”’ -¢ Ribes maivaceum Smith, Rees Cycl. 30: 1819. Mallow-leaved Currant.—Leaves heart shaped, slightly five- lobed, serrated, veiny; hispid on both sides; densely downy be- neath. Clusters hairy, longer than the leaves. Calyx tubular, hairy. Petals rounded, not half so long as the limb. Bracteas ovate, acute, jagged, half the length of the calyx.—Gathered in California, by Mr. Menzies. Branches dark purple, downy, like every part of the plant. Leaves an inch, or inch and half, long; dark green above; white, and densely downy, beneath; hispid on both sides with glandular bristles. Szzpuldas beautifully fringed. Clusters dense, on long, rough, glandular stalks. Calyx red, about half an inch long, hairy, especially its base and the germen. Petals wedge-shaped, rounded, somewhat cloven, scarcely one-third so long as the segments of the limb, which are elliptical. Stamens the length of the petals. Bracteas ele- gantly jagged and fringed. This fine species seems nearly allied to the last [R. sanguineum]. We have not at hand the Flora Peruviana, to ascertain how far it resembles any in that work. Known definitely from Marin county, immediately north of San Francisco Bay, to Monterey county on the south, and especially on the outer Coast Range. It was probably first collected at Monterey, as it is not uncommon in the pine woods near that place. Greene says that it grows on ‘‘dry open hills,’’ but I have never found it except among other shrubs, in places where there is con- siderable moisture during the winter and early summer months. The species is easily distinguished from 2. ¢/utinosum not only by the thick leaf, rugose above and white beneath, but by the shape of the calyx, the lobes in this species spreading rotately, while in 2. glutinosum they are more erect, presenting a much longer appearance, and are of a deeper red as a rule. This species is the earliest bloomer, having been noted as early as December roth on the hills west of Los Gatos, Santa Clara county, where it is abundant. w 7/7 10. Ribes viridifolium (Abrams) Ribes malvaceum viridifolium Abrams, Bull. So. Cal. Acad. bs) 67.) LO@2: R. glutinosum, of local lists, not R. glutznosum, Benth. Shrub, 1-2m. high, rather compact, the young branchlets short pubescent and more or less densely glandular with stalked glands; leaves, rather thick, 3-7cm. broad, slightly or not at all rugose, bright green minutely scabrous and somewhat glandular with sessile glands above, pale and glandular-pubescent beneath; petioles beset with stalked glands, and more or less puberulent, dilated at base, the margins ciliate; inflorescence glandular- pubescent, racemes rather long,}peduncled, drooping, many- flowered; bracts ovate cm. long, ciliate toothed above; pedicels 3-4mm. long; calyx 2 bracteolate at base, rose color below, be- coming nearly white above, its tube cylindric, pubescent withix, 4mm. broad, 12mm. long, its lobes broadly ovate, rounded at apex, 4-5mm. long; petals rounded, 2mm. broad, obscurely cor- date at base, its claw very short; anthers nearly sessile, 2mm. long: style 6-7mm. long, pubescent; berries becoming reflexed at maturity on short pedicels, pubescent and rather sparsely be- set with coarse gland-tipped hairs, apparently purple, rcm. long. Wilson's Peak and Pasadena Trail, Los Angeles Co., No. 1525, April 15, 1901. This differs from the type in having larger and greener foli- age, more glandular inflorescence and larger floral organs, and like the type, it can easily be distinguished from R. glutinosum Benth, by its pubescent style and reflexed fruit. R. glutenosum has a glabrous style and the berries are on rather long, slender spreading pedicels. This plant, fortunately so well described by Mr. Abrams, is certainly dis- tinct from 2. malvaceum, as may be seen by comparing the descriptions. It is different in the leaf, which is barely or not at all rugose above with sessile glands instead of strongly rugose, with stalked glands; under side of leaf merely pale and glandular instead of covered with a dense, short tomentum; the floral or- gans, except.the petals and stamens, which are of equal size in both (2mm.) are twice larger, the petals of different shape, and the stigma not two-lobed as it is in R. malvaeeum. 78 11. Ribes indecorum Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: BAAD PI Maes. LOO 2: Shrub with erect stems, having dark brown, shreddy bark on the older growth, the younger parts tomentose and glandular. Leaves three-lobed, 2-4 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, finely rugose-on the upper surface, clothed with stipitate giauds, and a fine, sparse, silky pubescence; lower surface white with a felt-like tomentum, and with a few gland-tipped hairs on the veins; mar- gins irregularly, doubly crenate; petioles stout, shorter than or equalling’ the blades, glandular and tomentose, the stipular dila- tion (as wide on each side as the petiole) fringed on the margin with uneven, gland-tipped hairs. Inflorescence racemose, spread- ing or pendent, in fruit surpassing the leaves; flowers sessile but erect; peduncles short; bracts foliaceous, almost equalling the flowers, lanceolate, 6mm. long, 2mm. wide, with the margins >) fringed with long, gland-tipped hairs. Peduncles stout, glandu- lar, and tomentose. lowers at base subtended by two mem- branous, glandular, and tomentose bracteoles, calyx-tube more than twice as long as the broad, rounded divisions; these tomen- tose and glandular on both sides, almost 2mm. wide; petals or- bicular, reniform, Imm. wide, crenulate, on very short and broad claws. Stamens as long as the petals, on stout, short, deltoid filaments; anthers .75mm. long, longer than the filaments. Style stout, hairy at base, two-cleft at apex, with broad, yellow stigmas; ovary tomentose and somewhat glandular. Collected by the author at Cajon Heights, near San Diego, California, March 14, 1891. ‘There is also a specimen in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences collected by Dr. George Thurber at San Pasqual, San Diego County. It is labeled Rzbes sanguineum, No. 606. Ribes tndecorum is nearest to Rzbes malvaceum, but differs most noticeably in the much smaller and sessile fowers. The floral organs, too, are not the same. 79 Miss Eastwood has recently collected this specios in the Santa Ifiez moun- tains, Senta Barbara county, and it probably will be found at other places be- tween there and San Diego. 12. Kibes Nevadense Kellogg, Proc Cal. Acad. 1: 63. 1855. 2! Ribes Navadaensis.—Kellogg. Stem and branches glab- rous, the membranous purple bark of the older branches flakes and warps off like the mine-bark bush, or Stzraca opulifolia. Leaves about as long as the racemes, cordate, 3 to 5-lobed, doubly serrate, pubescent above and below; (neither glandular nor viscid), petioles puberulent and sparsely glandular; base somewhat expanded, ciliate; racemes from the same buds as the leaves, minutely puberulent and glandular; bracts red, like the flowers, lanceolate, acute, numerous; calyx globose campanulate, border expanding, petals roundish, shorter than the segments of the calyx or sub-equal, pedicels very short. Fruit globose, glands few, black, with a dense bloom, pulpy and very sweet. The following remarks occur just before the description of this species: ‘‘Dr. Kellogg also exhibited a complete drawing of a species of wild Black Mountain Currant, together with specimens of the bush and ripe fruit. The fruit is very sweet and pulpy, and by a little culture would undoubtedly improve in every respect. The fruit is large, black, covered with a dense bloom, and the bunch appears to yield bountifully.’’// At the bottom of the colored drawing of this spe- cies, made by Dr. Kellogg, and preserved in the herbarium of the California Academy, is written: ‘‘From a specimen furnished by Mr: Garvett of Placer- ville.”’ 13. Ribes variegatum (S. Wats.) Aven Nelsen, Key R. M. E24 Nooo) Rives sanguineum var. variegatum 5. Wats. Bot. King. Hexpedu TOO!) Mort: Nearly glabrous throughout, with the petioles and pedun- cles glandular-puberulent, and the ovary somewhat glandular- hispid; flowers in short dense racemes, the pedicels about equal- ing the ovate reddish bracts; calyx campanulate, the tube very short, scarcely equaling the ovate deep rose-red segments; petals 80 white, rounded, short; style deeply bifid—Possibly a distinct species, but probably only an extreme form of R. sanguineum in those respects in which that species is most variable —pubes- cence, form of the calyx, and denseness of inflorescence. None of the specimens are yet in full flower. A branching shrub, 2-3 feet high; Washoe Mountains, near Carson City, on stream banks; 5,000 feet altitude; April. Collected also by Dr. Ander- son. (381.) This plant I do not definitely know, but it is said to occur in the northern Sierras, which is to be expected. The plant of the Rocky mountains, which Professor Nelson no doubt had in mind when publishing this combination, is probably # Woljii, a distinct species, long relegated to synonymy. 14. Ribes ascendens Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 244. pl. 23. f. ga. gb. 1902. Erect shrub unarmed, with gray-brown bark on older stems, younger stems paler and shreddy. Leaves three- to five-lobed, orbicular, reniform, 3-6cm. wide, 2-5cm. long, crenate-dentate, almost glabrous on the upper surface, the lower clothed with fine, spreading pubescence; petioles equalling or shorter than the blades, giandular; stipular dilation narrow, fringed with long, gland-tipped hairs. Peduncles generally surpassing the leaves, at first erect, later nodding, glandular-pubescent; flowers crowded at the summit of the peduncle, which is naked for more than half its length; bracts oblanceolate, rounded at apex, 7mm. long, 2mm. wide, with gland-tipped hairs on the surface and margin; pedicels half as long as the bracts, lengthening with age, and recurving upwards, so that the berries are erect. Flow- ers subtended by two membranous bracteoles which are soon deciduous. Calyx open-campanulate, rose-color, the tube about half as long as the divisions; these ovate, obtuse, 3.5mm. longs 2.5mm. wide, slightly pubescent. Petals white, orbicular, nar- rowed to a short, broad claw, 2mm. wide. Stamens not equal- ling the petals, filaments linear, anthers oblong. Ovary clothed with gland-tipped hairs. Berry veiny, sparingly glandular, be coming 7:1. or more in diameter. 81 This species is near R. xevadense Kellogg, but the racemes are ascending when in flower. ‘The floral organs also differ in shape. The type was collected by the author at Millwood, (Sequoia Mills) Fresno County, California, in flower, May 4, 1895; in fruit, July 18, 1893. There are specimens from General Grant Grove in the same vicinity, and from Coburn’s Mills in Fresno County, collected by T. S. Brandegee; the former, July, 1892, the latter, May 29 (year not given). ' Ribes ascendens Jasperae Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot Se 2A A Pee aigi i LOO2. This is similar to the species in general appearance, but the sepals and petals are more orbicular, the filaments are shorter, and the anthers broader and more orbicular. It is named in honor of Mrs. William Jasper, who sent the specimens from San Emidio Canon, Kern County, California, May, 1895. 15. Ribes HitteMianum Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. I. Bot. Bs) 2451 pl. 24. fx Od. OO TLOOZ. Erect shrub with spreading branches, 2-3 feet high; bark smooth, unarmed, gray-brown, shreddy on the younger branches. Leaves three- to five lobed, orbicular, reniform or truncate at base, 3-4cm. wide, 2-3cm. long, irregularly dentate and some- what revolute, rugulose veiny, glabrous on both sides but with some scattered glands on the lower; petioles about as long as the blades, sparingly tomentose and glandular; stipular dilation broad, truncate, membranous, as wide on each side as the peti- ole. Racemes 1-2cm. long, at first erect, later nodding, but with the pedicels erect; flowers three to eight, crowded, sub- tended by deciduous bracteoles. Calyx tubular-campanulate, with the tube 1mm. long, the divisions rose-color, oblong, ob- tuse, 4mm. long, 2mm. wide. Petals white, narrowly oblong, three-fourths as long as the sepals and one-half as wide. Sta- mens with subulate filaments, half as long as the sepals; anthers 82 orbicular. Stigmas two, capitate; ovary and immature fruit clothed with stipitate glands. — This species belongs in the group of which R. xevadense Kellogg is the type. It differs from that species in the inflor- escence and the shape of the floral organs. Collected near the head-waters of Canon Creek, Trinity County, California, not far from Twin Lakes, July 9, rgor, and named in honor of Mr. Carlos T. Hittell, one of the party on a trip to these little known mountains. 16. Ribes glancescens Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 245. DUAL. 7a. \LOO2, Unarmed shrub with older bark gray-brown, younger bark bright brown glossy, shreddy. Leaves three-lobed, orbicular- reniform, about 3cm. long, 3.5em. wide, irregutarly dentate, glabrous except for some minute glands on the lower surface, glaucescent, paler on the lower surface; petioles about as long as the blade, minutely puberulent, with the stipular dilation on each side narrower than the petiole, and sparingly fringed with glandular hairs. Inflorescence in fruit spreading or erect, gen- erally shorter than the leaves, rather loosely fowered with from five to ten fiowers; peduncles as long as the racemie, striate, pu- beruient; pedicels slender, becoming 5mm. long, shorter than the brown, membranous, gland-tipped bracts. Flowers sub- tended by two smail, deciduous, reddish bracteoles. Calyx open- campantulate, with very short tube, and spreading divisions; these rose-color, oblanceolate, 4mm. long, 1.5mm. wide, glab- rous. Petals white, spatulate, two-thirds as long as the sepals, denticulate near the apex. Stamens half as long as the sepals, with suborbicular anthers and brcad filaments. Ovary glabrous except for the scattered stipitate glands. This species is related to Rebes nevadense Kellogg from which it differs in the glaucous color of its foliage, the racemes erect in fruit, and the shape of the floral organs. It was col- lected by the author or Mount Shasta, August 13, 1893. No 83 note was taken of the exact locality, but it must have been some place on the trail from Sisson. No. 5889 of my collection of 1902, from Mt. Sanhedrin, Lake county, has been referred to this species, although it is not quite typical. The range is thus considerably extended, and it. no doubt occurs on other high mountains of the north Coast Range. 17. Ribes viburnifolium A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad.* 1%: 202.) NGS. Ribesia, modo R. nigrz resinoso-atomiferis; foliis ovato- rotundis utrinque obtusissimis (nec cordatis nec plicatis) inciso- paucidentatis nunc obsolete trilobis ‘glabris (petiolo excepto) de- mum coriaceis (pollicem longis): racemo subsessili corymbiformi plurifloro, pedicellis filiformibus, bracteis scariosis caducis; caly- cis tubo turbinato demum oblongo, limbo rotato 5-partito voseo, lobis ovalibus; petalis minimis patentissimus viridulis filamentis- que brevissimis margini disco lato plano insertis——Northern part of lower California, near All Saints Bay, Parry, Pringle, and Marcus Jones, April, 1882. A straggling bush, so peculiar that the acute collectors did not recognize the genus. Yet the flowers have all the characters of the Rzsesza section, and the coaspicuoos glands of the leaves, young shoots, pedicels, &c., are just like those of R. zzgrume. This species has been found on Santa Catalina, and probably occurs on some of the other islands off the coast of California, but I believe has not been reported from the mainland. 18. Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Supp. 2: SSO VOL a Ribes oxyacanthoides vat. lacustre Pers. Syn. 13252. 1805. Specimens labeled with the name ot this species have been found in Mendo- cino county, and there are others collected by Chandler on “ridges and mead- ows near Marble Mountain, Siskiyou county.’’ It is hardly possible that our plant is really R. Zacustre, but if it is, it is the only far eastern species in this genus which has reached the Pacific coast.“It is probably PR. echinatwm, de- scribed as follows by Douglas in Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 517. 1830: )/ ‘“‘Aculeis quinis axillaribus, ramis ominino reclinatis hispidulis, foliis 5 lobis glabris, racemibus nutantibus multifloris folio longioribus, pedicellis germinibus- 84 que piloso-glandulosis, calycibus campanulatis, bracteis ovatis ciliatis, baccis hirsutis. “Branches slender, reclining, rarely divided, thickly clothed with long, sharp, bristly, brown prickles; these are five or seven in number, large, long, flattened, and combined under the buds. Leaves five lobed, smooth on both sides, unequally toothed, on slightly pilose petioles, which are shorter than the leaves. The flowers hang in a lax, slender raceme, nearly double the length of the leaves; the partial footstalks and germen covered with brown glandular hairs; bractae ovate, half the length of the pedicels. Calyx bell-shaped, with rounded, spreading, and somewhat reflected segments, brownish-yellow, with a dark rim, scarcely longer than the rounded petals.” Berries black, hairy, small, of a pleasant taste. | “This species in several respects is nearly related to R. lacustre. The de- pressed habit, the much more copious clothing of longer and stronger prickles, the less divided and perfectly smooth leaves, the black-rimmed calyx and black fruit, render it truly distinct. I have not seen R. armatum of the Linnaean her- barium, but I suspect that species to be still more nearly akin to the one now noticed. “Tt is a common trailing shrub, on dry shelving rocky places on the moun- tains, at the grand rapids on the Columbia, and on the monntains of northern California, never frequenting edges of rills or swampy ground in shady woods among Carices, as R. lacustre does. This species flowered for the first time in the Society’s garden last April.” 19. Ribes lentum (Jones) Coville and Rose, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 15: 26. 1902. Ribes lacustre var. molle A. Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 206. 1876. Ribes lacustre var. lentum Jones, Proc. Cal. Acad. II. 5: 68%.) 11895: Ribes molle Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 209. 1898, not Poepp. 1858. kibes nubigenum McClatchie, Erythea, 2: 80. 1894, not Phil. 1856. Ribes montigenum McClatchie, Erythea, 5: 38. 1897. Rk. lacustre, Poiret, var. molle, Gray. A foot or two high, much branched: branches bristly-prickly or naked, armed with short triple or multiple thorns under the fascicles: leaves small (usually about an inch in diameter), downy-pubescent, roundish in outline, 5-parted, and the lobes incisely toothed and cleft: racemes 5-9 flowered, short-peduncled: flowers greenish- 85 white; the open calyx 3 lines in diameter, its short lobes round- ed: small petals and stamens very short: berry light red, not larger than peas, acid (intermediate between a gooseberry and a currant), sometimes nearly or quite naked. In the Sierra Nevada at 6,000 to 10,000 feet, from Mariposa Co. northward. Jones gives a very meagre description of this plant: ‘‘Densely covered throughout with a yellowish, viscous pubescence, as well as soft hairs. This is the common form throughout the mountain region of Utah and Nevada, the pu- bescence being so viscous as to stain the sheets yellow in which the plants were collected. It is possible that the glutinous pubescence was overlooked in Gray’s type of var. modle, in that case this will be identical with it.’’ Howell’s description adds nothing to the original one of Gray, and the only difference in McClatchie’s description of R. nubigenum is that the leaves are only about half as large. He adds the character ‘‘anthers broader than long, deeply lobed.”’ In specimens of my own collecting at Donner Pass, in Placer county, the calyx is yellow, about 5mm. across, the purplish fan-shaped petals are only a little more than 1mm. high on a short claw half as wide as the petal: stamens unequal, some as long as and some shorter than the petals, inserted on a thin erect rim or disc, which forms a reddish center to the calyx. The anthers are broader than long, deeply notched, as described by McClatchie. It is a widely distributed plant, occurring throughout California in the high Sierras, and, as mentioned before, in the southern Coast Range, and extends east into the Rocky mountains. 20. Ribes Menziesii Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 732. 1814. Ribes ferox Smith, Rees Cycl. 50: 1819. R. sub gemnis 3-plicato-aculeatum; ramis hispidissimis, foliis basi truncatis sub 5-lobis inciso-dentatis, lobis lateralibus brevioribus, subtus tomentosis, pedunculis subbifloris foliis sub- aequantibus, calycibus tubulosis: limbo patente, staminibus lon- gitudine calycis, stylo exerto, baccis globosis aculeatis. On the north-west coast, near Fort Trinidad. AMJenzzes. v. s. in Herb. Banks. 'The flowers of the size and colour of A. sav- LUINEUNL. R. fevox Smith, is an undoubted synonym, as it is based on the same speci- mens, for smith says: ‘“‘Gathered by Mr. Menzies, near Port Trinidad, in Cali- fornia.” Greene, in Fl. Franciscana, 202, says this species occurs from Hum- boldt county to Santa Barbara, but it hardly occurs south of San Francisco Bay, unless in places quite near the ocean. It is badly mixed in the Botany of Cali- 86 fornia, where it is made to include at least three other species in the coast region alone, and none of the forms credited to it from the Sierras belong with it, for it does not occur there at all. It extends into Oregon, and perhaps into Washing- ton on the north. 21. Ribes hystrix Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 248. pl. 24. f- 10a-10b. 1902. Shrub several feet high, with light brown, tortuous branches, minutely pubescent and thickly beset with stout, rigid, horizon- tal, yellow prickles, some gland-tipped, generally small on the new growth, and increasing in size with age; axillary thorns triple, stout, distinct at base, middle one longest, becoming T5mim. long, lower part pubescent, upper glabrous. Leaves - thin, three-lobed or some five-lobed, with the basal lobes small, 2-4cm. wide, orbicular reniform, incisely dentate, minutely pt- bescent and dotted with sessile glands on the lower surface, almost glabrous on the upper; petioles about as long as the blade, tomentose and slightly glandular. Peduncles one- to three-flowered, 1-2cm. long, ascending, slender, sparingly pilose and clothed with gland-tipped hairs; pedicels less than half as long, occasionally longer; bracts orbicular or lobed, clasping, acuminate to obtuse. Calyx pubescent and glandular; tube a little longer than the ovary; divisions 1cm. long, surpassing the rest of the flower when reflexed, 3mm. wide, lower part purple, near the apex greenish, obtuse. Petals white, broadly obovate when spread out, acute, narrowed toa short claw, involute, 4mm. long. Stamens with broad filaments dilated at base, as broad and long as the anthers; these about 3mm. long, sagittate at base, tipped with a blunt mucro. Styles surpassing the sepals in the opening flower, divided about half; stigmas small, capi- tate; ovary globular, tomentose, and densely clothed with pur- plish bristles, some near the calyx gland-tipped. Fruit purple, more or less densely clothed with stiff, spreading prickles, 2-5mim. long. ‘his species is nearest to R. Menzzesti Pursh but differs in the glandular pubescence, the shape and texture of the leaves, the size of the flower, and shape of the parts. 87: Collected in flower by Mr. R. A. Plaskett, at Gorda, Santa Lucia Mountains, California, December, 1897. The fruiting specimens were collected by the author at Pacific Valley, in the same vicinity, May, 1897, and June. 1893. 22. Ribes Californicum H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 346. 1840. Glabrum, ramis nudis, spinis stipularibus ternis, foltis cor- dato-reniformibus, 3-5-lobis, lobis subincisis, pedunculis 1-3-floris, bracteis rotundato-ovatis, calycis tubo brevi, laciniis ovato-lan- ceolatis tubo 3-plo longioribus demum reflexis apice glabris, staminibus petala triplo superantibus styloque simplici glabris, ovario glanduloso-piloso. This differs from R. xzveum, Lindl. (with which we are only acquainted from the figure in the Bot. Register), besides what is pointed out in the above diagnosis, by the erect, or rather patulous, not connivent stamens. Strangely enough, this species is confused in the Botany of California with R. Menziesti, from which it differs in several important particulars, as may be seen by consulting the descriptions and key. The calyx is greenish-white, with some trace of purple. Jepson seems to think it is too close to R. Victoris, but we fail to see the reason, as nearly all the characters are dissimilar. I have collected it on hills neat Santa Rosa, where it occurs as a rather compact shrub three or four feet high, flowering about the middle of March. The berry is globose, 5 or 6mm. in diameter. It is said to be common on the Berkeley hills, and the type was probably collected there by Douglas, who obtained it “near San Francisco or Monterey not far from the coast.” I do not remember seeing it about Monterey. 23. Ribes occidentale H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 346. 1840. Glabrum, ramis nudis, spinis stipularibus solitariis foltis cordato-reniformibus 3-5-lobis, lobis incisis, pedunculis 1-3-floris, calycis laciniis oblongis tubo sublongioribus demum reflexis apice pedicellatis staminibus petala triplo longioribus glabris, stylo glabro ultra medium bifldo stamina superante, ovario echi- nato. The stamens in this and the next species [ subvestetum], as well as in the last [Calfornicum], have their anthers ovate 88 much larger in propostion to the flower than is usual in the genus, and tipped with a distinct blue mucro. This species is abundant about Los Gatos, Santa Clara county, where it blooms early in March. It was also collected near Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, in 1902. I collected it this season under the impression that it was R. Califor- nicum, but upon referring to the description of that species by Greene in FI. Franciscana, 201, various differences were noted. Turning to Torrey and Gray, Fl. N. A. 1: 548, our plant was found to agree with their description of R. occi- dentale, and I think the species should be recognized. The following descrip- tion was drawn up from fresh material: Shrub 1-2m. high, often growing in dense symmetrical clumps: the branches zigzag, rigid, young growth puberulent: subaxillary spines ternate, straight, rather stout, about 1cm. long: leaves bright green, broadly ovate-orbicular, truncate or cordate at base, variable in size, the largest about 2cm across, more or less 5-lobed, the lobes somewhat incised, glabrous, but the petioles of about Icm. more or less pubescent with downwardly pointed hairs: peduncles almost filiform, cm. or more in length, usually drooping, puberulent, bearing 1-2 flow- ers: pedicels short, about 3mm. pubescent, each subtended by a small round- ovate short-acuminate ciliate bract of less than 2mm. which is almost connate- perfoliate: calyx tube about 3mm. long, almost tubular, only slightly enlarged above, greenish with a tinge of red, the oblong-lanceolate acute reflexed seg- ments about 7mm. long, 2mm. wide, reddish below, greenish above: petals white, about 4mm. long, strongly involute, truncate and slightly erose at apex: filaments 8mm. long; anthers lance-oblong, a little less than 2mm., mucronate, pale yellow: style 9mm. long, cleft almost to the middle: berry globose, about 6mm. in diameter, wine-red, sparingly armed with red spines but not glandular. 24. Ribes oligacanthum Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 246. pl. 24. f 8a. 8b. _ Erect, branching shrub with the younger stems puberulent, older gray-brown, not shreddy, somewhat tortuous, unarmed, except for the simple or triple thorns at the leaf-axils; these often short and abortive. Leaves broadly ovate or orbicular, three- to five-lobed, 2-3cm. wide and about as long, with margin laciniate-dentate, base truncate, but cuneate where it joins the petiole, glabrous; petioles slender, as long as or twice as long as the blades, glabrous or puberulent; stipular dilation twice as wide as the petiole, ciliate with white, silky hairs. Peduncies filiform, one- to three-flowered, 1-2cm. long; pedicels almost as long, together becoming 4cm. long, slightly puberulent; bracts 89 broadly ovate to orbicular, acuminate, three-angled, clasping, reflexed. Calyx 12mm. long, the linear, acute segments more than twice as long as the tube, 2mm. wide, apparently white, veined with parallel veins that branch near the apex, puberulent er glabrous. Petals involute, obovate when spread out, irregu- larly denticulate at apex, 3mm. long, veins palmate. Filaments almost twice as long as the petals, dilated at base; anthers ob- long-ovate, cordate at base, tipped with a recurved mucro. Style divided two-thirds of its length, slightly exserted. Young fruit puberulent, clothed with a few long spines (about ten) each about 5mm. long. Related to Rives californicum Hook. & Arn. from which it differs in the sparsely spinous fruit, the glabrous leaves, the lax inflorescence, and the shape of the floral organs. Collected by the author on the road between Jolon and King City, in Monterey County, California, near Mansfield’s Ranch, ten miles from King City, May, 1897. This species is really more closely related to R. occidentale than to R. Cal- tornicum, but is distinct from both. “25. Ribes Victoris Greene, Pittonia, 1: 224. 1888. A somewhat slender spinescent shrub, 5 feet high, younger branches very prickly, young growing parts puberulent and somewhat viscid: leaves an inch broad, 3 to 5-lobed, on slender petioles subtended by not very stout triple spines: pedicels with I or 2 persistent entire bracts and as many large nodding green- ish white flowers: calyx-lobes linear-oblong, recurved: petals acutish at apex, and erose-toothed: filaments not exceeding the petals; anthers ovate-oblong, broad but not sagittate at base, ob- tusish at apex but not mucronate: ovary glandular-hirsute: fruit unknown. Collected near the base of Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County, California, by Mr. Victor K. Chesnut, a pupil of mine to whom I gladly dedicate the species; also by Dr. C. C. Parry, in Ruth- erford Canon, Napa Valley, in May, 1887: nearly related to X&. 90 Menztesit, but with very different petals and anthers. It is per- haps no great rarity in that botanically almost unexplored range of mountains which separates the Santa Rosa and Napa Valleys. Jepson, Flora West. Mid. Cal. 274, describes the fruit as “‘golden yellow, 7 or 8 lines in diameter, densely covered with slender prickles,’’ but fails to state that it is oval in shape and the ‘‘slender prickles’ are little more than stout hairs, which are very glandular. He also states that the filaments are ‘‘stout- ish, much surpassing the petals,’’ a character directly opposite to that originally given by Greene. This statement, backed up by a specimen in my possession which I had every reason to believe was correctly determined, led me to place the species where it does not belong in the key. It should have a position im- mediately after R. Aystriaz, under ‘filaments scarcely exceeding the petals,’ for as described by Professor Greene, ‘‘filaments not exceeding the petals,” is most undoubtedly correct. My own No. 5773, collected along Sonoma creek at the foot of Mt. Hood, Sonoma county, June 26, 1902, may be taken as typical. These specimens bear well developed fruit as well as the persistent flowers, and answer well to the original description. The range appears to be the same as given above by Professor Greene, namely, Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties. 26. Ribes Mariposanum Congdon, Erythea, '%: 183. 1899. A straggling shrub, 3 to 5 feet high, with long, slender branches, which have few prickles. Leaves about 1 in. in diam- eter, moderately 3 to 5 lobed, thin; their under surface as well as the young shoots softly pubescent. Flowers very large, three- fourths in. in diameter and fully 1 in. long, usually in pairs at the bracted summit of a stout erect or ascending (rarely pend- ant) peduncle one and one-half to two in. long. Floral charac- ters otherwise much as in R. Menziesii. Ovary densely glandu- lar bnt not prickly.” Fruit not prickly, yellowish when ripe, with a thick, tough, shagreen-like skin, which is strongly gland- ular and gives a nauseous taste to the otherwise sweetish and edible puip. |’ Flowers May 15 to June 1, and the fruit ripeus in Septem- ber. This species is limited to the coniferoua belt in the moun- tains between 3,500 and 5,000 ft. It is reported as abundant in the Sierras further south, and its nauseous fruit is well known to the mountaineers. gl 27. itibes subvestitum H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 346. 1840. Glanduloso-pubescens (foliis supra exceptis), ramis rigide setosis, spinis stipularibus 3-4 gracilibus, feliis cordatis 3-5 lobis supta parce pilosis, lobis incisis, pedunculis 1-3 floris, calycis pubescenti-glandulosi tubo ovarium subduplo superante laciniis oblongis parium breviore, staminibus petala duplo superantibus eglabris, stylo giabro simplici (nunc bifido!), ovario piloso-gland- uloso. In all the flowers except one the style is decidedly simple, but in that one it is bifld to near the middle. The whole plant, with the exception of the upper side of the leaves, is covered with a glandular pubescence: the ovarium, although glandular and hairy, exhibits no tendency to become a prickly fruit Greene says this species is ‘‘very common in the Coast Ranges from at least Sonoma Co. to Monterey. March, April.”’ Jepson includes it uncer RP. AZen- ziest, but judging from his description in Fl. Mid. W. Cal. 274, he had only subvestitum at hand. Personally, I have found the species only in the Santa Cruz mountains about Los Gatos, Santa Clara county, where it is abundant in and on the edges of thickets, especially on the moister northerly slopes. It ascends to an elevation of at least 15c0 feet, but is most abundant at 1000 feet and under, ranging somewhat higher than #. occidentale. Although Hooker and Arnott give ‘‘near San Francisco or Monterey not far from the coast,’’ as the habitat of all of the plants mentioned by them in that part of their work, it is altogether likely that Douglas collected this species near the site of the pres- ent town of Los Gatos, lying as it does along the old road connecting the Mis- sions of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. My own explorations in both Sonoma and Monterey counties failed to bring this species to light, and if I remember rightly, it is represented in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences by only one or two specimens from San Mateo county, which would limit it to San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The following description was made from living specimens collected early in March, but in all the flowers examined the style wus bifid, in some cases cleft almost to the middle: Shrub 1-2m. high, often with few, slender, branches: stems grayish, the young growth especially spiny and glandular: infrastipular spines commonly 3, sometimes 4 or 5, slender, needle-shaped, somewhat declined, pale brown or yellowish, 10-12mm. long: leaves cordate, roundish, the largest about 5cm. across, 3-lobed, incisely crenate, the lateral lobes noticeably so, the whole thus appearing somewhat 5-lobed, rather thin, bright green above, somewhat paler beneath, both sides glandular pubescent; petioles commonly as long as the blade, glandular pubescent: peduncles ordinarily one-flowered, about 2cm. long, glandular, with a small, 2mm. long rounded connate fringed bract just 92 below the ovary, this, as well as the ovary and outside of the calyx glandular: flower about 14mm. long, the tube cylindrical-campanulate, greenish, 3mm. long, 4mm. wide across the top, lobes obilong-lanceolate, 1cm. long, acute, greenish without, maroon-purple within: petals white, 4mm. long, strongly in- volute, somewhat toothed, cuneate when spread out: filaments white, awl- shaped, 6mm. long; anthers yellow, slightly over 2mm. long, lanceolate with slightly cordate base, the apex wucronate: style equalling or slightly exceeding the opening calyx, cleft for 2mm. or more. The fruit of this species is, as described by Greene, Jarge, densely clothed with short, stiff, gland-tipped hairs. I have seen it only in the immature state, when it appeared to be yellowish, and somewhat oval in shape, thus resembling the fruit of R. Victorts. 28. Ribes sericeum Ejstw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 246. pl. 24. f. 9a-9f. 1902. Erect, branching shrub, several feet high; stem clothed with numerous fine, weak, short prickles, which are gland-tipped on the young shoots, also with short, close, silky pubescence; axil- lary thorns three, orange-color, stout, united, the middle one longest, more than 1cm. long, broadening at the base, pubescent -and glandular on the lower part, glabrous on the upper. Leaves thin, three- to five-lobed, broadly ovate-orbicular, reniform or truncate at base, 2-4cm. long, not quite so wide, incised crenate, clothed with fine, white, silky hairs which are appressed or spreading, also with fine gland-tipped hairs; petioles about as long as the blades, more glandular and more spreading-pilose, dilated only at the very base, and without the appearance of stipules. Peduncles one- to three-flowered, slender, erect, with pubescence like the petioles; pedicels about half as long; bracts orbicular or three-lobed, foliaceous; bractlets similar but smal- ler. Flowers 2cm. long, open-campanulate in the bud. Calyx with the divisions at length reflexed, longer than the tube and the ovary, oblong, purplish red, greenish near the apex, softly silky villous on both sides; tube campanulate, veined, slightly glandular at base. Petals white, 5mm. long, involute, erose along the almost truncate apex. Stamens with filiform, purple filaments, exserted beyond the sepals in the opening flower, and also beyond the pistil; anthers narrowly linear-oblong, almost 93 amm. long, obtuse. Pistil two-cleft for 2mm. Ovary densely clothed with horizontally spreading fine, silky hairs mixed with | some longer, glandular hairs, the glands purple. Fruit purple, clothed with short, weak bristles and scattered hairs. Some of the bristles retain the purple glands on the fruit. Collected in flower by Mr. R. A. Plaskett, at Spruce Creek; also at Gorda, in flower and fruit. Collected by the author at Pacific Valley, with immature fruit. &. serzceum flowers in December and January and fruits in June. At Point Sur speci- mens were collected by the author in June, 1893, with very large, pear-shaped fruit, almost 4cm. long, and specimens with globular fruit were collected at about the same time at Slate’s Hot Springs. All these localities are on the coast of Monterey County, California, at the base of the Santa Lucia Mountains, and the range extends from south of Point Gorda to north of Point Sur. Ribes sericeum is related to R. sudvestitum Hook. & Arn. but it has different leaves, different pubescence, and the floral organs are not the same. Ribes sericeum viridescens Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. ITI. Ota NaAai TOO2: The variety is similar to the type, but the flowers are smal- ler and greenish, the leaves are more densely clothed with silky white hairs, and are more orbicular-reniform. ‘The peduncles in the specimens examined all have single fiowers. This variety was collected by R. A. Plaskett at Gorda, Mon- terey County, California, January, 1898. 29. Ribes Lobbii A. Gray, Am. Nat. 10: 274. 1876. R. Lobbit Gray. 1 am under the necessity of giving a name to this little known but apparently very distinct species. It is figured by Hooker in the Botanzcal Magazine, tab. 4931, as R. subvestitum Wook. and Arn., from a Californian plant sent by the late Mr. Lobb (whether seeds or young plants is not men- 94 tioned, probabiy seeds) to his employers, Messrs. Veitch and son. But the only specimens I have seen are one, exactly agreeing with the plate, from Kew, ticketed ““Vancouver’s Island, Wood,” and another, from the Willamette, in the same region, collected by Mr. Howell. It should be particularly looked for in California, north of San Francisco Bay, and along the coast to British Columbia. Perhaps the Californian habitat is an error. The species may be distinguished by its dark, purplish- red calyx of half an inch in length, not counting the ovary, nearly white petals half the length of the stamens, very glandu- lar but unarmed ovary, and especially by the short, oval, and very blunt anthers, which are dotted with a few warty glands on the back. This occurs in Colifornia on the highest summits of the noith Coast Range from Lake and Mendocino counties northward. 30. Ribes Marshallii Greene, Pittonia, 1:31. 1887. Glabrous, the branches armed with stout, but rather short, triple spines: leaves roundish, 5-lobed, the lobes incised: pedun- cles 1-flowered: flowers pendulous, an inch long; calyx-segments elongated-oblong, spreading or recurved, dark purple; petals 2-3 lines long, spatulate-oblong, salmon-color: filaments slender, more than one-half inch long; anthers very small, three-fourths line long, oblong, obtuse at both ends; ovary bristly. Summit of Trinity Mountains, California, July, 1886, found near lingering snow-drifts, by Mr. C. C. Marshall. This goose- berry is in some sense intermediate between R. AJenzzes7i and kk. Lobbtz, and the flowers are remarkably large and handsome, even surpassing those of R. sfectosum in all save brilliancy of color. 31. Ribes amictum Greene, Pittonia, 1:69. 1887. Cinereous-tomentose or glabrate, branches not prickly, but with stout short triple thorns at the nodes: leaves small, 3-5- lobed: peduncles 1-flowered, the bracts solitary, cucullate, com- oo pletely enwrapping the ovary, deciduous, its margin entire, in pubescent forms tomentose-ciliate, in other forms nearly naked: calyx dark purple, 4-6 lines long, cylindrical-tubular with re- flexed segments: filaments subulate, scarcely exceeding the erose-dentate involute white petals; anthers a line long, ovate, acute, tipped with a blunt or even truncate mucro: ovary prickly. Interior valleys of Humboldt County, California, near Gar- berville, Miss Bush; also in Hoopa Valley, Mr. C. C. Marshall, 1887. Shrub with the aspect of R. AMenzzesz2, from which it is readily distinguished by the solitary deciduous bract which, until it falls away, enfolds the ovary. The proportions of tube and limb of the calyx are no less distinctive, the former being long, cylindrical and 1o-striate. JI am obliged to admit, as forms of one species, the almost hoary shrub of the Garberville region aud the nearly glabrous one of the district farther north. This kind of variability is somewhat common on this coast, among the species of Rzbes. My R. velutinum (Bull. Cal. Acad. i. 83), which, as I know it in northern California, is covered all over, even to the fruit, with an almost velvety pubescence, I now have from Mr. Cusick, of northern Oregon, in a perfectly glab- rous state. As might be inferred, the above description includes two species, the glab- rate plant from Hoopa Valley later being referred to R. cruentum. R. amictum is common in the northern Sierras, in fact more so than in the type region. It is also reported from the southern Sierras, but specimens from that region are probably referable to some other species. 32. Kibes Wilsonianum Greene, Erythea, 3: 70. 1895. Rigid and low shrub, with smooth branchlets and 1 to 3 spines at each node: growing parts and leaves more or less vil- lous with a short pubescence: leaves small, rounded, 5-lobed, the lobes and teeth acute: peduncles rather slender, mostly 3-flow- ered: bracts persistent, broadly ovate, acuminate-cuspidate, vil- lous: ovary short-prickly, scarcely villous: calyx dark red, the 96 cylindric or slightiy 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 moun- tains of Kern Co. Calif., in 1893, by Norman C. Wilson. Her- barium 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. 33. Ribes cruentum Greene, Pittonia, 4: 35. 1899. Shrub of the size and habit of R. amzctum, but wholly glabrous, leaves with their lobes less crenate; flowers larger, the whole calyx with its almost cylindric tube and long spreading segments deep crimson: petals white or pink, not strongly invo- Inte, laciniate-dentate across the obtuse apex: ovary and berry strongly aculeate. Species common in the Californian Coast Range, from So- noma Co. northward into southern Oregon. Some specimens of it were present when R&. amictum was first described, and from these the term ‘“glabrate’” found place in the diagnosis, the specimens cited from Hoopa Valley being of the present species, not the true R. amictum. ‘This last, though occurring at the north as far westward as the interior of Humboldt Co., is prep- erly a shrub of the Sierra Nevada; is always tomeutulose even to the outside of the calyx, and has a shorter broader flower, with quite different petals, these being only erose-dentate, and much thicker and more waxy in appearance than those of #. evruentum. The flower of this species is not well described. The calyx is about 13mm. long when opening, the finally reflexed lobes about 7mm. The petals are only a little shorter than the subulate filaments; anthers purplish, 2mm. long, base rounded, the apex tipped with a rather slender, prominent mucro: style a httle \ \ ay longer than the stamens, cleft for 2mm., the whole barely included within the calyx when the lobes are not reflexed. Jepson makes no mention of this species in his Flora, and it certainly is not referable to any other species known within the region covered by his work. - 34. Ribes aridum Greene, Pittonia, 4: 35. 1899. Near R. amztctum, the stems much stouter, rigid and flexu- ous, with puberulent bark, the nodes bearing short very stout recurved triple spines: leaves small, canescently hirtellous on both faces: peduncles 2-flowered; calyx-tube fuunelform, the lobes oblong, the whole calyx hoary-tomentulose, dark-red within: fruits small, armed with short and stout (slender-cont- cal) spines, in maturity bursting on one side and ejecting the pulpy mass of the seeds, the pericarps persisting during the succeeding winter. A remarkable species, discovered among the arid foothills of the Californian Sierra near Caliente, Kern County, in 1893, by Mr. N. C. Wilson. ‘The specimens are scarcely yet in fiower, having been collected in January, but show buds near the time of expansion, the branches being still loaded with the dry peri- carps of the preceding year. ‘The characters of the branches, spines and foliage alone, would abundantly distinguish the spe- cies from R. amictum to which I at the time too hastily referred the specimens. 35. Ribes hesperium McClatchie, Erythea, 2:79. 1894. Shrub 5-10 feet high with spreading branches; stems smooth, beset with dark colored spines which are commonly single, but occasionally double or triple; leaves, inflorescence and young branches puberulent; leaves thin, %-134 in. broad, 3-5-lobed, the lobes incised; peduncles 1-2-flowered, 2-3 lines long; pedicels about 3 lines long; bracts broad, fan-shaped with ciliated membranous pinkish margin; flowers about three-eights in. long; calyx-tube campanulate, slightly inflated, about 1 line long; segments from greenish-white to greenish-red, 3-4 lines long; petals white tinged with red, about half the length of the 98 sepals, cuneate-oblong, 2- or 3-toothed, slightly involute; fila- ments about half longer than the petals; anthers ovate-oblong, mucronate, greenish; ovary densely echinate, bristles greenish- red, mature berry very prickly, 1%4-34 1n. in diameter.—Common in shaded canons of San Gabriel Mountains, flowering in Janu- ary and February; fruit ripe in June and July. Collected at various times during 1893 and winter of ’94. Fruit edible and of agreeable flavor. 36. Ribes amarum McClatchie, Eryrhea, 2:79. 18094. Shrub 3-8 ft. high, rigid stems and branches beset with yellowish-brown (commonly triple) spines, often setose-hispid; leaves, inflorescence and young branches glandular, pubescent and bitterish fragrant; leaves thin, %4-1% in. broad, 3-5-lobed and incised; peduncles 1- or 2-flowered, 3-5 lines long; pedicels each with a round-ovate 2-4- (usually 3-) lobed bract, about 3 lines long; flowers 34 in. long; calyx-tube oblong-campanulate, 3 lines long, segments purplish-red, reflexed, 4 lines long, tips greenish, especially on back; petals pinkish-white, red-streaked near base on inside, 2 lines long, strongly involute, suborbicular when flattened out, rounded and erose-toothed at summit; pink- ish filaments equalling or slightly exceeding the petals; anthers sagittate, ovate-oblong, mucronate, purplish; ovary densely glandular hairy; mature berry %4-3¢ in. in diameter, densely covered with glandular bristles which produce a very bitter secretion; pulp sweet.—Quite common in shaded canons of San Gabriel Mountains. Collected at various dates during 1893 and winter of ’94; flowering in February and March; fruiting from May to August. 37. Kibes velutinum Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:83. 1885. Without prickles, the stout, thorns solitary: glandless but minutely soft-pubescent: leaves small, on petioles shorter than the lamina, deeply 4-cleft; the lobes 3-cleft: peduncles short, deflexed, having about 2 white or pinkish flowers: calyx eylin- 99 draceous, 2-3 lines long, the tube shorter than the erect lobes: ovary white-villous: berry dark purple, velvety-pubescent but not glandular.—R. leptanthum var. brachyanthum, Gray, Bot. Cal L205: Open grounds in the northern part of California and regions adjacent. A stout shrub, 4-6 feet high with coarse, rigid, but gracefully recurved branches. It differs from #. lepianthum not only in its shorter flowers, but in the velvety pubescence which clothes not only both sides of the leaf, but more markedly the fruit, even in its maturity. Professor Greene evidently erred in considering this species identical with Gray’s plant. It has also been reported from Nevada in the vicinity of Carson. 38. Ribes divaricatum Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 515. 1830. Ramis divaricatis setosis, aculeis 1-3 axillaribus deflexis, foliis subrotundis 3 lobis inciso, dentatis nervosis glabris, pedun- culis 3 floris nutantibus, calyce campanulato: laciniis linearibus reflexis tubo duplo longioribus, stylo staminibusque exsertis, baccis glabris. A robust bush, of erect habit, six or eight feet high, with divaricated branches, the younger ones sparingly and unequally clothed with minute, bristle shaped prickles, and having one or three large, strong, deflexed prickles under each bud. The leaves are rounded, three lobed, coarsely cut, toothed, smooth and veiny, about an inch long; the footstalks somewhat shorter, with a few scattered hairs near their base. The clusters droop below the branches, are three or five flowered, shorter than the leaves, slender and smooth, with rounded subamplexicaul bracteae. ‘The calyx is bell shaped, yellowish green with linear brownish red, reflected segments, which are double the length of the tube. Petals wedge-shaped, white, half the length of the limb. ‘I'he stamens are exserted beyond the calyx, half an inch long. Style considerably longer than the stamens, semi-bifid, spreading, villous. “Berry spherical, smooth, one-third of an inch in diameter, black, pleasant to the taste. I0O0 A common bush cn the banks of streams near Indian vil- lages, on the North West coast of America, from the forty-fifth to the fifty second degree N. Lat. Our Californian shrub, at least the one from the southern part of the State, may be distinct. 2. vi/osum Nutt., originally from Santa Barbara, is said to be the same as R. divaricatum, and if it really is, holds a unique position geo- graphically, for no other species of this genus inhabiting the coast region has such an extended distribution, occurring from Santa Barbara northward into Oregon and Washington. There are no specimens from Santa Barbara in my own collection or in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. Nut- tall obtained his type at ‘“‘St. Barbara, California; common near the village on the plain.”’ 39. Ribes saxosum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 231. 1833. Caule inerme rarius aculeato, spinis nullis vel solitatiis bimisve, foliis cordatis 5-lobis serratis glabriusculis, pedunculis brevissimis deflexis 1-2 floris, calycis glabri tubo campanulato, laciniis patentibus demum reflexis corolla duplo longioribus stamina subaequantibus, germine nudo. Commion on the undulating grounds of the interior among stones (N. W. Amer.) Douglas. Wake Huron, Dr. Todd. Sas- katchewan, Dr. Richardson, Mr. Drummond. ‘This has the same short peduncles as R. oxyacanthoides but a very differext and more campanulate calyx; in the latter respect coming near R. Cynosbati. It is probably not uncommon in North America, and may have been confounded with some already described species, or it may itself belong to the following species [Azrtel- /um | of this group, which seems to be scarcely known except to Michaux, and on account of the vagueness of his character, not to be determined, except by reference to his herbarium, if indeed it exists there. I have received it from Dr. Boott, gath- ered near Boston, under the name of R. triflorum, and hence, as well as from Dr. Bigelow’s description, I suspect it to be the plant of the Florula Bostonensis, where the iruit is described as resembling a common Gooseberry. This is supposediy the plant called R. oxyacanthoides, so far as the west- ern form is concerned. It is subalpine in the Sierras, occurring from Mariposa 3 UOC to Sierra county. Hooker probably coafused several species, but his type is the plant collected by Douglas. 40. Ribes lasianthum Greene, Pittonia, 3:22. 1806. Stout, low, widely spreading and intricately branched, the height seldom exceeding 2 feet: branches glabrous; infrastipular spines commonly 3, rather slender, straight: rounded leaves ¥% to 3 inch broad, short petioled, pubescent, cleft to the middle into 3 terminal lobes, with 2 to 4 more shallow and less distinct lateral or basal ones, all these 3-lobed at apex, the sinuses closed: flowers 3 or 4, in very Oat et racemes, yellow; calyx about 5 lines long, the hirsute tube much dilated above the ovary, thence tapering gradually to the spreading spatulate lobes; petals also spatulate, shorter than the calyx-lobes; young ovaries hairy: fruit unknown. An almost alpine species, flowering in the latter part of July, near the receding snow-drifts in the mountains of Califor- nia above Donner Lake, toward Castle Peak. Somewhat re- lated to R. leptanthum of the Rocky Mountains, though also akin to R. guercetorum of the Californian Coast range south- ward. From specimens gathered by me last year at the type locality, several char- acters may be added to the description of the flower. The calyx is hirsute outside throughout about 8mm. long, the tube 5mm., the oblong lobes nearly 2mm. wide: petals and stamens inserted at the junction point of tube and lobes, the petals oblong-spatulate, white with pinkish or yellowish base 2mm. long, equalling the stamens, which are included instead of exserted, as stated in the key, the filaments broadly subulate, anthers nearly quadrate, about 1mm. wide: style.not extending beyond the petals and stamens, the stout stigma two lobed. 41. Ribes Congdoni sp. nov. A straggling shrub, the secondary branches apparently at right angles to the main ones: bark grayish, somewhat flaky on the old branches, the more recent growths usually prickly and pubescent: infrastipular spines usually single, pale brown or yellowish, obout 5mm. long, slender from a slightly enlarged base, straight, sharp and needle-like: leaves ovate-orbicular in I02 outline, 12mm. across, truncate at base, deeply five lobed, the divisions cuneate, incised, pubescent on both sides with short hairs; petioles filiform, about 1cm. long, pubescent as the blades, but the hairs longer and whiter: peduncles about 1cm. long, filiform, pubescent like the petioles and with some short stalked glands in addition; bearing at the summit a roundish bract of over Imm: flowers yellow, one or two, on pedicels 1 to 2mm. long, each subtended by a bract similar to the one terminating the peduncle, white pubescent outside and along the inner edge of the calyx lobes: calyx about 8mm. long, the nearly cylindri- cal tube 4mm. long, 2mm wide, equalled by the oblong obtuse lobes Imm. wide: petals yellow, broadly spatulate, a little over 2mm. long, Imm. wide above, obtuse, included 1mm. within the expanded calyx: stamens a little shorter than the petals, thus about 2mm. long, the stout filaments narrowed above; anthers ovate, obtuse, with slightly cordate base, about 1mm. long, thus neatly equalling the filaments: style very short, 3mm. long, included within the calyx tube, glabrous, two lobed, the lobes rather slender and spreading: ovary glabrous. The type was collected on dry stony hillsides below Mor- mon Bar, Mariposa county, California, March 10, 1903, by Mr. J. W. Congdon, and distributed as Rzbes leptanthum, a species which hardly reaches California, at least not the western slope of the Sierra. R. Coxgdoni forms a connecting link between fe. gquercetorum of the southern Coast Range and R. lastanthum of the northern Sierras, perhaps more related in general appear- ance to the former, which, however, is a smooth plant. The term “stamens exserted” in the part of the key relat- ing to this species should be corrected to “stamens included.” The misleading term was adopted from a flower with reflexed calyx lobes, in which case the stamens would naturally appear exserted. 103 42. Ribes querecetorum Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1: 83. 1885. Prickles none; thorns stout, solitary: glabrous or very mi- nutely puberulent, glandless: leaves small, numerous, 5-cleit, the lobes narrow, cuneiform, 3-cleft or -toothed, a half inch long on petioles of an inch or less: peduncles slender, deflexed, with two or more small, bright yellow fiowers: calyx tubular, mi- nutely puberulent, the lobes linear-oblong, lightly ciliate, a lit- tle longer than the petals, reflexed: stamens shorter than the — petals; anthers short-oblong: style glabrous, undivided; stigmas two; ovary glabrous: berry small, smooth. Bushes 3 or 4 feet high, in dense, well rounded clumps, erowing in oak groves at the base of the mountains in Monterey and San Itis Obispo counties; especially abundant at El Paso de Robles, where it was collected by the writer in March, 1884. The species is near R. leptanthum; the very small yellow flow- ers are very fragrant. Ripe fruit has not been seen. 43. Ribes speciosum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 731. 1814. Ribes stamineum Smith, Rees Cycl. 30: 1819. Ribes fuchstotdes Berl. Mem. Soc. Genev. 3: Part 2. pl. 3. 1828. Robsonia speciosa Spach. Phaner. 6: 181. 1838. R. sub gemnis 3-plicato-aculeatum: foliis cuneato-subrotun- dis inciso-crenatis glabris nervosis subtus pallidioribus, petiolis brevibus, pedunculis sub-3-floris foliis longioribus, pedicellis germinibusque glanduloso-pilosis, calycibus tubulatis pedicellis longioribus, staminibus longissime exertis. On the north-west coast. Menzies. v. s. in Herb. Bauks. The younger branches are hispid; the flowers large, purple. The leaves are small, and have some resemblance to those of Thalictrum. There is considerable reason for separating this species as a distinct genus, possessing as it does a 4-merous flower, erect calyx lobes and evergreen leaves, characters all at variance with our other gooseberries. Pursh’s habitat of “‘on 104 the north-west coast is rather vague, but Smith, under his description of 2. Stamineum says it was ‘“‘gathered by Mr. Menzies in California.’’ It was un- doubtedly collected at Monterey, where it is abundant on hillsides, and is not known to occur north of that place, but ranges southward from there to Lower California. Those who are inclined to criticise should bear in mind that this is not a monograph of the members of the genus Ades in California. It is merely the bringing together in compact form the work of others, and no claim is made as to the completeness of the work; the writer is even now fully convinced that -his own limited collection still contains at least two undescribed species, but did not come to this conclusion until too late to include them in their proper place. The paper has indeed quite outgrown its original limits, for the intention was merely to print an annotated list of the known species with a key, the key being the main object of the undertaking. Many large genera are almost totally confined to the Rocky mountains and regions westward, and the number of species is being added to continually, usually with no attempt at corellation and sometimes with no hint as to the relationship of the newly described species. As this vast region, with the exception of several local floras, has never been fully covered in recent years, there is much to embarass the worker within its limits. Of the floras, local and otherwise which more or less cover this region, there Is but a single lone example of the use of a modern key throughout, and that is in Jepson’s Flora of Middle Western California. Abram’s recently issued Fiora of Los Angeles and Vicinity, is a distinct disappointment in that respect, for instead of keys which definitely place each species, one must laboriously read over the descriptions of a number of species in the larger genera in order to place some particular species. It is to be hoped that more revisions of genera with modern keys will ap- pear in the near future, or if the time is not ripe for revisions, at least keys to known species. The writer hopes to do some small part of this necessary work, and the present paper is the first of the series. 105 WESTERN SPECIES, NEW AND OLD.—III. Juncoides subcongestum (S. Wats.) Coville Luzula spadicea vat. subcongesta 5. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 202. 1880. My No. 7135, from above Donner Pass, in Placer county, California, collected August 10, 1903, has been identified as above, and is from type locality. Mr. Coville, to whom it was - sent for identification, says it must be named /uscozdes subcon- gestum, being held distinct from parzviflorum on account of the conspicuous fimbriation of its bracts and bractlets. The plant is a handsome one, and grows in clumps in little grassy mead- ows atnmong granite rocks kept moist by slowly melting snow- banks. ‘The elevation is about 7500 feet. Heuchera lithophila Stems usually many from a thick, multicipital lignescent rootstock, 2-3dm. high, often purplish, naked or occasionally bearing one or two small leaves below the inflorescence, scantily pubescent below, glandular and puberulent above: leaves basal, broadly ovate, either truncate or somewhat cordate at base on petioles of 7cm., glabrous or nearly so on both sides, 5 lobed, the lobes rounded and short, these again slightly 3 lobed, each secondary division ending in a minute cusp, margins ciliate: panicles lax, the lower 1-2dm long, branches usually trichoto- mous on slender peduncles of 2-3cm.: bractlets subtending the peduncles and pedicels linear-acuminate, 2-4mm. long, fimbriate, purplish: pedicels a little shorter than the calyx, which is 4mm. long, slender campanulate, purplish, pubescent and glandular, the short lobes of 1mm. usually rounded, greenish tipped: petals white, linear-spatulate, exserted about 3mm. beyond the calyx, as are the stamens and styles. No. 7028, collected on granite rocks near Donner Pass, Nevada county, California, July 27, 1903. It is abundant in 106 moist shaded places on the rocks, usually growing in large tufts, which are conspicuous for some distance. It passes in Califor- nia for A. rubescens, but seems to differ from that species as described and figured in Stansbury’s Report, 388. p/. 5. in the longer and narrower calyx and shorter and broader calyx lobes. Nor does it seem to be A. rubescens var. glandulosa Kellogg, the type of which came from the Donner Pass region, but at a much greater elevation, over 9000 feet. A. lithophila was noted at from 6500 to 7500 feet, but it perhaps has a greater altitudinal range. Rubacer velutinum (H. & A.) Rubus velutenus A. & A. Bot. Beech. 140. 1840. Rubus Nutkanus var. velutinus Brewer, Bot. Cal. 1: 172. 1876. Rubus parviflorus var. velutinus Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, Gc AL WIT SOO: Dr. Rydberg has recently well segregated these plants so different from typical Ruzdus, giving to them the name Rudacer. Our Californian plant of the coast region is certainly as well worthy of specific rank, if not more so than is R. parviflorum, which differs principally from the original species in the white color of its flowers. &. velutimum differs from the other species in its thicker, densely velvety pubescent, evenly serrate leaf, and dry, insipid fruit. ‘These differences are not due merely to exposed and unfavorable conditions of growth, as might be sup- posed, for they hold under normal conditions, namely, in deep shaded ravines along permanent streams, with a northerly ex- posure. It is not uncommon near Los Gatos in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains, growing under the conditions just described. 107 - Rosa ultramontana (S. Wats.) Rosa Californica vat. ultramontana S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: Oe EO O. This was originally described as “tomentose but not gland- ular: calyx-tube and pedicels glabrous: prickles straight and slender. . . On the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, rang- ing to the Rocky Mountains.” Whether the form occurring in the Rocky mountains is identical with the plant of the eastern slope of the Sierras, I do ~ not know, but R&R. ultramoniana, as observed by me last year about Donner Lake and along the Truckee river, is certainly distinct from R. Californica, and all the characters given by Watson show that it is quite distinct. The original description of R. Calzjornica in Linnaea, 2: 35. 1827, 1s as follows: Rosa quam e San Francisco retulimus, Californica, speciem novam esse suspicamur specimina vero multa desideranda relin- quunt. Rami glabri, aculeis stipularibus geminis, cetera uti tota planta inermis. Aculei stipulares rectiusculi, subrecurvi, patentes. Folia trijuga, superiora bijuga; foliola ovata, obtusa, areute serrata, impar maximum circiter 9 lin. longum, inferiora minora; subtus cum stipulis petiolisque inermibus tomentosa, supra pubescentia, omnino sicut tota planta eglandula, exceptis glandulis raris sessilibus in margine stipularum. Flores in apice ramorum subcorymboso-racemosi, 4-6; pedunculus pilis patulis hirtus, in infera parte foliolo ovato, integerrimo, sessili, amplec- tente (e stipulis folio deficiente transformatis enato) instructus. Germen ovoideum glabrum. Laciniae calycinae ovatae longe acuininatae, acumine apice dilatato spathulato, extus pubes- centes, intus tomentosae, et tomento albo in margine densiori ciliatae, albo-marginatae. Petala rosea. Flores magnitudine eirciter R. pimpinellifoliae. Sidalcea hydrophila Perennial, from a thick ascending rootstock: stems tall, erect, 6-8dm. high, slightly pubescent below with stellate or 108 forked hairs, sometimes purplish throughout: leaves light green, mostly on the middle part of the stem, the lower on long, slen- der petioles of 2dm., orbicular in outline, 5-6cm. in diameter, usually 6 lobed, the divisions oblong or quadrate, these again divided into 3-5 segments which are either rounded or acute and apiculate; uppermost but scarcely smaller ones cut into more slender, sometimes entire divisions, on petioles of their own length, all pubescent on both sides with short, soft forked hairs, veins preminent, sinus deep, acute; stipules lance-acuminate, 5mm. long: inflorescence branched, the slender branches naked or with some bracts, 1-2dm. long; racemes spicate, dense, often 5 or 6cm. long: calyx 5mm. high, cup-shaped when in flower, pubescent with short appressed hairs, these more often simple than forked, the ovate-lanceolate apiculate lobes 3mm. long: petals deep rose-purple, oblong with a slightly cuneate base, 12mm. long, 4 or 5mm. wide, notched: akenes 3mm. long, smooth and glabrous: greenish or straw-colored, slightly curved. No. 6047, collected August 11, 1902, near Hullville, Lake county, California, on the ridge between Eel river and Rice creek, in a swampy place. It is related to S. Oregana. Eriodictyon trichocalyx Shrub, height unknown: bark of the previous year brown, puberulent, as is the pale growth of the season, and as well as the leaves shining with a gummy exudation: leaves oblong, the largest 9cm. long including the petiole of 1cm. or less, averaging Icm. wide, sinuate-dentate, the apex rounded or acutish, the base gradually narrowed into the petiole, deep green and glab- rous above, veins prominent beneath, especially the midvein, the spaces between the veins whitened with a very short and close tomentum which is barely perceptible to the touch: inflor- escence pubescent with short hairs which completely cover the short, 3mm. long calyx, the lobes of which are linear: corollas narrowly campanulate, 6mm. long, 4mm. wide across the sum- mit, probably purplish, densely pubescent on the outside, the 109 rounded lobes slightly over 1mm. long and about as wide: sta- mens equalling the corolla tube, the anthers inserted at the base of the corolla, but adnate for one-third their length, the adnate portion bearded, but not densely so: styles equalling the fila- ments. The type was collected by Mr. Geo. B. Grant at Seven Oaks Camp, San Bernardino mountains, San Bernardino county, California, June, 1901, and was distributed as E7vzodictyon Cal- ifornicum. It resembles that species somewhat in its leaves, but otherwise is totally different, being probably more nearly related to E£. angustifolium. Orthocarpus exsertus _ Branched from near the base, 3dm. high, the branches erect or ascending, brownish, pubescent with straight, rather chaffy hairs, which are scattered below, more plentiful above: leaves few, 2cm. or less in length, three or five lobed, these narrowly linear, 1mm. wide, appearing almost capillary in the dried state: inflorescence occupying nearly the entire upper half of the stem in fully developed plants, lax below, crowded above: floral bracts shorter or no longer than the calyx, differing little from the leaves, except that they have a much broader, entire middle division, only the tips purplish; the bracts and the leaves pubes- cent like the stem: calyx almost 2cm. long, the slender tips purplish, pubescent with soft, wavy hairs: corollas apparently bright rose-purple, about 3cm. long, the tube twice the length of the lips; lower lip abruptly dilated, 5mm. or more across, slightly pubescent, each of the three divisions dotted above with a darker spot; upper lip extending 4mm. above the lower, densely bearded on the back, the apex slightly hooked. The type is a specimen in my possession collected by Mr. Geo. B. Grant at Lincoln Park, near Pasadena, Los Angeles county, California, April, 1902, No. 886, and grows in “grassy sunny places.” It was distributed as Orthocarpus purpuras- cens, and is nearest to that species as we understand it, but dif- IIo fers in pubescence, in the leaves, and especially in the naked, exserted state of the flowers. The corolla also probably differs in shape. Mimulus grandis (Greene) Mimulus guttatus vat. grandis Greene, Manual, 277. 1894. This remarkably large and handsome plant is certainly distinct from the Alaskan plant with which it has been associ- ated. Since it was originally well characterized by Professor Greene, there is no need of a description in this place. Up to this season I had found it only near the sea about San Francisco and Pacific Grove, in moist places, usually in almost pure sand, but last May it was collected on the far side of the ridge east of San Jose, in a fleld along the Mt. Hamilton road, growing in black mud below a watering trough. BOTANICAR GARDEN Voltime r. No. 6 MUHLENBERGIA A. A. HELLER, Editor Los GATos, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 13, 1905 [All unsigned articles in this journal are by the Editor, and the types of all new species described by him are deposited in his private herbariuin, unless otherwise stated. } WESTERN SPECIES, NEW AND OLD.—IV. Ribes Greeneianum tL A shrub 3.3.5 m. high, probably spreading: bark brownish- gray, apparently not flaky, elabrous: prickles if preseut soon de- ciduous: infrastipular spines seemingly single, and only occa- sionally present, colored like the bark, slender and needie-like, about 8 mm. long: leaves rather firm, broad!y ovate or orbicular in outline, the largest 3 cin. in diameter, three lobed, the lobes unevenly and coarsely crenate, the base markedly cordate, dull ereen above, paler beneath, both sides olandular, and pubescent with short hairs, veius rather prominent beneath; petioles slen- der, only slightly or not at all dilated at base, less than I mm. in diameter, about two-thirds the length cf the blade, densely ubescent with hairs somewhat longer and more spreading than those on the biade, and beset with stalked glands: flowers single or in pairs, the slender peduncles glandular and pubescent like the petioles, slightly drooping, at least when cld; pedicels short, 3-4 nm. long subtended by a rounded, dentate or fringed densely elandular bract of less than half their length: calyx whitish or “ereamy, about 1 ci. long, the tube only 3 mim. long, glandular (emp) II2 and pubescent; segments lance-oblong, acutish, a little over 2 mm. wide, veined, somewhat pubescent: petals white, about 4 mm. long, or a little more than half the length of the calyx seg- ments, strongly involute, 2 mm wide when spread out, the end truncate: filaments equalling or slightly exceeding the calyx, flattened and 1 mm. wide at base, tapering to half that thickness at the apex, glabrous; anthers lanceclate, 2 mm. long the apex blunt: style exserted 1 or 2 mm. beyond the stamens, 2-cleft and darkened to about the meeting point ee the stamens; stigmas capitate: iminature fruit inclined to the oval in outline, prebably yellowish, densely armed with weak, glandular bristles. The type, in my herbarium, is C. F. Baker’s 2915, colleeted May 6, 1903, at Vacaville, Solano county, California, said to be “frequent in shady bottoms.” It was determined by Professor Greene as “Rzbes Victorts Greene,” and distributed as such by Mr. Baker. A comparison with the original ie os as well as with typteal specimens of R. Vectors shows that this plant is abundantly distinct. It differs considerably in general appear- ance, and the flower characters are unlike. Thet pies specimen shows onlv a very slight development of new growth, the most of the branches giving evidence of but one or two imillimeters erowth during a seascn. The flower character at least, of the A. I’zctorzs of Fepsen’s Flora of Middle Western California, is apparently drawn from specimens of R. Greeucianum. Lupinus Bridgesii (S. Wats.) 1905. Lupinus albicaulis var. Bridgestt S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 2 527: T 1873. 2 Lupinus formosus vat. Bredgest Greene, Fl. Fran. 42. 1891. ‘’The more villous form, with largest flowers and densest racemes.—Near San Francisco.” [Bridges, No. 64, 64a. /— Watson, I. c. “Stipules narrowly laneeolate, the whole plant silvery- 113 canescent and even villous: raceine distinctly pedunculate, the vertici!ls more remote and distinct.”—Greene, ]. c. The above significant record is ene of many which con- fronts the student in systematic botany. This particular form, named thirty-two years ago, is still unrecognizable, so far as de- scription goes, but numerous named specimens appear to point to a certain somewhat variable form not uncommon in the re- gion of San Francisco Bay. That this form is distinct from the northern ZL. aldicaulis is also pretty certain. Not having access to the type itself, I append the following description, drawn from my No. 5598, collected May_23, 1902, in low grassy fields near eugene Solano county, California: Perennial: stems several from a thick, woody rootstock, erect or ascending, 5-6 din. high, slightly Ehaneeied or ridged, villous with soft white ascending or spreading hairs, especially on the lower half, those on the upper part shorter and more ap- pressed, leafy and somewhat branched, the branches short and probably not maturing flowers: petioles variable in iength, but isually from one-third to one-half longer than the leaflets; these oblanceolate, acute or acutish, slightly mucronate, the largest about 4 cin. long, 1 cm. wide, densely silky on both sides with appressed hairs, midvein rather prominent beneath, and brown- ish in the dried plant; stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, i-1.5 n. long, r mm. or a little more in width: naked or pedunculate part of raceme about 5 cm. long, the flower bearing part about 2 Gm.: flowers violet-purple, rather distinctly verticillate, mature internodes about 2 cm long: pedicels 5 mm. long, densely pu- bescent with short spreading hairs: calyx 8 or g mm. long, densely siiky with appressed hairs, the lobes nearly equal, ob- long, 2 mm. or a little more in width, the lower standing almost horizontally, and not closely pressed against the keel, entire, shortly pointed; the upper ascending, two-toothed, concealed be- hind the wings: corollas about 12 mm. long and as broad, ban- ner a little shorter than the wings, and darker in color; keel glabrous, strongly curved, the part below the “elbow” propor- I¥4 ticnately very broad and partly protruding from the wings, the- purplish apex included. This description 1s still deficient, for lupine flowers in the dried state do not show the various excelient characters which are apparent in the living state. Lupinus Watson: Lupinus aridas var. Utahensts S$. Wats. Proc. Aim. Acad. S: 534. 1873; not ZL. holoserieeus var. Utahens1s S. Wats. “Racemes 3-6 inches long, shorter than the very iovg peti’ oled leave Space setaceous, exceeding the fowers; petals pur- phish, 4 nn long, the banner shorter.—Parley’s Park in the Wahsatcl: (\Watson).”” The above description, short and unsatisfactory as it Is, as well as the different geographical range, points fo a plant dis- tinct from the northwestern ZL. arzdzs. Trifolium Andrewsii (A. Gray) Trijohum barbigerum var. Andrewsw A. Gray, Proc. Am Acad. "3: 335. 18672 Trifoltzm Grayt Woja. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. 15: 185. 13%, should be adopted, as it is much older, and is apparently the only 4% drewsi in the genus. lf. these two names belong: to:the same plant, Gray’s Trifolium parvum (Kellogg) Trifoliuin pauctiorum (2) vat. partum Welloge, Proe. Cal. Acad. 3: 54. 1873. Trifoliim multicaule Jones, Bull. Torr. Club, 9: 31. 1832. Both these names have been credited to 7) monantiun as synonyins,,the former by Watson, who in the Bibilographical Index perverts its meaning by placing the question mark thus —‘var. o parvum, ” instead of ‘“pauczforum (2) var. parveiit,” as originally written by Kellogg; and the latter ae Greene. hat Ke ae geg’s pliant, coliected at Cisco, and Jones’ from. near 1I5 Summit, both places in Placer county California, and only a few uiiles apart, are identical, I have no daubt, and am still more positive that they do not belong to 7. monanthum if the original descriptions mean anything. My No. 6942, distributed as “Trifokum geminifiovum Greene,” should be corrected to read Trifolium parvum. Wt was obtained on the shores of Donner Lake, only a short distance from Summit, but 1000 feet lower, or at about the same elevation as Cisco. Dr. Kellogg gave a very good and lengthy description of his plant, as he usually did, but I shall not reproduce it here, as I am doing that else- where. Trifolium splendens Annual, growing in rosette-like tufts, composed of several plants, the whole cluster rarely rising more than 1 dm. above the ground, glabrous throughout: stems several to many from the root, and again brancling above, 1-2 dm. long, the outer longer ones prostrate, the inner more ascending, rather slender, purplish below, green or yellowish-green above: leaflets light green, the lowest cuneate, retuse, very small, 2-3 mm. across, the larger uppermost ones obovate-cuneate or soinetimes inclined to the elliptical, commonly rounded at the apex, 1.5 cm. long, I cm. wide, all spinulose dentate at the ends of the prominent anastomosing veinlets; petioles all longer than thie leaflets, those of the middle part of the stem thrice longer, those of the lower and upper part usually about twice longer; stipules rounded, clasping the stem, about 5 mm. in diameter and 7 min. high, the lower adnate portion scarious, the upper more elongated part gtecn and irregularly lacerate with weak-spiitilose teeth: heads large, 2 em. across, 1.5 cm. high, solitary, terminating the branches on peduncles of 4-5 cm: involucre comparatively small, 3-4 min. high, irregularly laciniate toothed, the teeth weak-spin- ulose: calyx about 6 mm. long, glabrous, the pale tube about 20 striate, 2 mm. or slightly more in length, the purple tipped Iubee ckout 4 mm. long, 1 min. wide below, prolonged into an 116 acuminate and aristate point, with a tooth on either side, or sometimes only one tooth present, or both absent irom the ianer calyces, strongly five-veined, one of these alone each margin, and two branching from the midvein in the upper half: flowers numerous, cf a rich purple below, white above, twice the length of the calyx; banner obovate-oblong, nearly 3 mim. wide across the rounded and notched apex, strongly concave on the ventral side, and slightly curved back at the apex, the dorsal side show- ing a sharp ridge; wings elliptical-ovate, a little more than 1 nin. wide, acutish, standing shee away frou: the keel; abont 1 mm. wide at the enlarged, somewiiat pe auaen end, which is tipped by a slender slightly dowucurved apictlation about I min. long. My No. 6691, first collected May 7, 1903, in moist crassy places in sandy pine woods at Pacific Grove, Monterey county, California, but its time of greatest profusion was about two weeks later. It is one of the most beautiful clovers, and appar- ently local, as it has been seen at no other piace. it is a reia- tive of 7: varzegatunz, or what passes for that species. in Cali- fornia, aud the two often occur in close proximity, but could never be confused. It may be remarked in this connection that the flowers of Trifoliurvt are seldom described, except in the most supericial way. Indeed, Lojacono’s paper in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. 13: 1883, and Miss Eastwood's description of 7. fener in Bull. Torr. Club, 29: 81. 1902, are about the only really goed exampies known to nie. Stachys ramosa ie ee} Perennial, young plants simple or alinost so, in age becom- ing divaricately brauched, often becoming 6-8 dm. high, the lower branches commonly equalling the height of the plant, the ethers becoming successively shorter, thus making the plant somewhat pyramidal in outline, all stout, quadrate, 5 nim. across, markediy pubescent with rather soft straggly hairs, some of which are forked, the angles marked by a prominent rounded 117 line: leaves ovate-oblong, the largest lower ones about 1 dm. long, 5 cm. wide below, 2 cm. wide across the rounded top, thickish but not firm, rather coarsely crenate, veins prominent on both sides, the base rounded or truncate, somewhat oblique; petioles stout, 2 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, channeled above, strongly ribbed below by the pale midrib, the base slightly connate- clasping, pubescent like the stems, the upper ones gradually be- coming shorter, the uppermost obsolete or nearly so: inflores- cence 1-2 dm. long, the lower internodes 3-4 cm. long, the others successively shorter: whorls norinally six flowered: calyx 5 mm. long, narrow below, campanulate above, where it 1s 4 mm. across, the triangular, acute lobes 1 min. or a little more in length, each armed with a prominent slender innocuous cusp, the whole densely soft pubescent, including the inner face of the lobes: corollas 1 cm. long, the tube exserted 2 mm. beyond the calyx, prominently spurred on the lower side, densely bearded at the middle on the inside with a horizontal ring of hairs; lower lip nearly white externally, the inside marked with short purple lines, large, 6 mm. long and as wide across the lateral lobes which droop slightly, the rounded terminal lobe about 5 mm. wide, 3 mm. long, rounded and slightly upceurved at the end, otherwise nearly plane; bearded near the middle on the outside, merely puberulent in the throat; upper lip erect, strongly arched above the stamens, 4 mm. long, 3 min. wide at the top, a little narrower below, purplish and pubescent outside as well as somewhat glandular near the apex: filaments lined with purple; anthers brownish. Described from the living plant. Neo. 7510, collected June 15, 1904, in moist places in a field on Fairview ridge immediately west of Ios Gatos, Santa Clara county, California. Also observed in bloom as late as the mid- dle of October. The plants are stout and large when mature, hight green, with the marked and not unpleasant odor of .S. azz- gowdes, to which it is related. The pubescence, which occurs on both stem and leaves, though white and rather plentiful, does not obscure the green appearatice of the plant. 118 Artemisia monocephalia (A. Gray) Artemisia scopulorum vat. monocephala A. Gray, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1863: 66. 1864. Artemtsia Patiersont A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 4: Part 2. 435. 1878. The older name for this plant must be adopted, as it does not appear to have been used previously in the genus. Senecio majus (A. Gray) Senccio eurycephalus var. major A. Gray, Pac. R. Rep. 4: Testes OS aE | Senecio Whippleanus A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 54. 1883. } The same remark applies to this species as well as to the one above. Volume 1 No. 7 MUHLENBERGIA A. A. HELLER, Editor | Los Gatos, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 6, 1905 [All unsigned articles in this journal are by the Editor, and the types of all new species described by him are deposited in his private herbarium, unless otherwise stated. ] THE WESTERN VERATRUMS In 1898 while working over his collection of plants from western Washington, the writer not only discovered an excel- lent new species in this genus—V. caudatum—but found a great admixture of forms under the name Veratrum Calzfornicum. The following year he had an opportunity to examine pretty thoroughly the collections of Columbia University and the New York Botanical Garden, and later had submitted to him the ma- terial in the U. S. National Herbarium. He came to the con- clusion that either several new species had to be admitted, or a very elastic description drawn up to fit V. Calsfornicum, and decided that only intimate acquaintance with the plants in the field could form a basis for determining the matter. Having observed plenty of true Californicum in the field during the past four seasons, he now feels qualified to doa little prelimt- nary work on the genus. Having undertaken the task, he would like to have the co-operation of botanists in the West. Good photographs of the plants as they occur in their accus- tomed habitat are invaluable, as well as properly prepared speci- mens. Mere scraps of a plant (and such only one often finds in I20 collections) are always unsatisfactory. It needs be a large plant indeed which cannot be made into a specimen showing the whole inflorescence and some of the upper leaves by benditig it once or twice. ‘Then one of the lower leaves, and one too from the middle part of the stem should be shown. Several in- dividual flowers should be taken off and pressed flat under plenty of pressure; and a small branch may be treated in the same way. Unless we can have work carried on somewhat as outlined above, an intelligent understanding of the genus is hardly pos- sible. The following preliminary sketch is offered as a begin- ning: Capsule oblong-ovate, acute, many seeded Perianth segments serrulate or entire Flowers greenish, bractlets foliaceous, equalling or exceeding the flowers V. Eschscholtzianum Flowers whitish or creamy; bractlets shorter than i the flowers Segments broad Long, I cm. or more Mostly acute, with a green V-shaped mark at base V. Californicum Mostly obtuse, not marked at base V. speciosum Short, 5 mm. long Obtuse, dark lined at base, but the lines not confluent V. Jonesii Segments narrow 2-3 mm. wide; main stem much elongated V. caudatum I mm wide; stem not much elongated V. tenuipetalum Capsule obovate, obtuse, few seeded Segments fimbriate V. fimbriatum VERATRUM ESCHSCHOLTZIANUM (R. & S.) Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 2/%2 531. 1900. Veratrum lobelianum vat. Eschscholtzianum R. & S. Syst. 8.5555: @io20. Veratrum Eschscholtzuw A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 110. 1837. In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical club as cited above, Dr. Rydberg apparently published the combination Veratrum 121 Eschscholtzianum, although in a round-about way. Whether the plant of Idaho and Oregon should be included under this species is doubtful, but the Alaskan type is certainly distinct from the eastern V. veride. One point of difference which immediately appeals to the eye is the drooping flower branches. The following is the original description: Ramis majis patentibus; floribus remotibus, minoribus. In Norfolk Sound: Eschscholz. Obs. In Je¢a, quod V. Lobelzano simillimum, sed examine in Vivis instituto tamen forte species propria: caulis 1% ped. et ultra, inferne crassite digiti, undique pubescens. Folia inferiora ovata, superiora lanceolata, omnia acuminata, supra glabra, sub- tus dense pubescentia, exsiccatione nigricantia, inferiora 6 poll., 2% poll. lata, superiora 3 poll., 9-12 lin. lata. Panicula 34 ped.; rami laterales simplices, patentes vel subreflexi, nec erecto-paten- tes, ut in nostro. Racemi terminalis bracteae inferiores lanceo- latae, acuminatae, flores multo superantes, 9-10 lin. latae; supe- riores flores aequantes vel iisdem paulo breviores, sic etiam in ramulis; omnes subtus pubescentes. Flores minus approximati, majis patentes, minores quam in nostro, exsiccatione fusci, om- nes pedicellati, superiores hermaphroditi, inferiores in ramulis saepius masculi. Pedicelli densissime pubescentes, 1-134 lin. Petala obovato-lanceolata, acuta, margine denticulata, ungue parum angustato non incrassata, e exteriora paulo latiora et fere breviora extus pubescentia, praesertim ad dorsi basin, 4 lin vel paululo ultra, 1-1 1% lin. lata. Stam. corolla vix duplo breviora; filamenta graciliora quam in nostro; antherae peltatae, pallidi- ores. Styli staminibus breviores, recurvi. Ad specimen in Herb. cli. Martius. Huc videtur pertinere V. album a clo. Mer- tens prope Sichta lectum et in Linnaea 1829 p. 72 adductum. VERATRUM CALIFORNICUM Durand, Journ. Phila. Acad. II. 3: 103. 1855. The type of this species was collected near Nevada City, Nevada county, California, by a Mr. Pratten in 1854, and since 122 that time nearly every Veratrum collected between the Pacific ocean and the Mississippi valley has been referred to it. The original description reads as follows: “Caulis robustus, foliosus, pubescens, foliis ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, plicatis, glabris, imis caulinaribus in petiolum atten- uatis et cum eo circa pedalibus; superioribus sessilibus, subvagi- nantibus. Racemo valde pubescenti, paniculato et circiter ped- ali; floribus breve pedicellatis, polygamus; sepalis ovatis obovat- isve, persistentibus, in sicco fuscis et purpureo ad basim macu- latis, antheris reniformibus posticis, antice dehiscentibus; stylis brevibus, recurvis. “This is undoubtedly different from lM. vwzrzde of which I have seen specimens from Oregon, perfectly similar to our east- ern plant, except that the leaves are almost round. The color and shape of petals differ entirely. . vzvzde has greenish flow- ers with narrow elongated petals drying green. V. Californz- cum on the contrary, like Welanthium Virginicum, dries purple, and has ovate sepals, marked at the base with a deep brown spot. The bracts in . viride are very long and narrow, those of . Calsfornicum are scarcely longer than the short pedicel, and are oval and concave, the leaves also are quite different; they are broadly ovate in the former, and ovate-lanceolate in Mr. Pratten’s plant.” In 1899 while at the New York Botanical Garden I made the following note: “In the herbarium of Columbia University is a fragment of a flowering branch, evidently taken from the type of this species. With it is the legend: ‘Fragment of a specimen from California. Recd from Mr. Durand, Dec. 1854.’ The perianth segments are broadly ovate or obovate, about 7 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide. The only specimen of late collections which I would confidently refer to this species is H. E. Brown’s 579, collected on the south side of Mt. Shasta, California, July, 1897.” In 1902 I] examined Durand’s type in the herbarium of the Philadelphia Academy, and found that my judgment concerning 123 Brown’s 579 was correct, and that my own 5963 collected July 22, 1902, in Lake county, California, near the summit of Mt. Sanhedrin at about 6000 feet is good Californicum. In 1903 it was obtained on a high ridge just south of Donner pass, at 8000 feet, no. 7177. The Donner Lake region is not far from the type locality, part of it lying in the same county, and it is plen- tiful there. During the present season (1905) it was noted and carefully examined to make the identification positive, at Sis- son, Siskiyou county, at the foot of Mt. Shasta, growing among grass in moist meadows, elevation 3550 feet, the lowest station recorded. The “deep brown spot” at the base of the sepals, mention- ed in the original description is green in the living plant, and extends along both edges of the claw, forming a V-shaped mark. The “purple” color of the flowers in the original is due to im- perfect drying, for in nature they are creamy with a greenish tinge. The type shows only the upper part of the plant, hence the large lower leaves are not described. They are broadly elliptical, often verging upon the rotund, the largest ones 3 dm. long, 2.5 dm wide. ‘The “imis caulinaribus in petiolum attenu- atis,” upon which Dr. Rydberg lays stress in Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 532, is a false character. The lower leaves are no more petioled in this than in the other species. ‘The supposed “‘pet- iole’” is merely the long sheathing base split away from the stem, the likeness enhanced by the fact that only the upper nar- row leaves are present in the type. The plant is low, usually not much over a meter in height, several plants growing in close proximity, or often forming ex- tensive colonies in moist gravelly flats in the higher mountains. In North American Fauna 16: 140. f 44, one gets a fairly good idea of its appearance. It is rather common on the high peaks of the north Coast Range, and from at least the middle Sierra north to Mt. Shasta, but just how much further north it extends the writer is not now prepared to state; but it pretty certainly does not extend east to the Rocky mountains. 124 VERATRUM SPECIOSUM Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club; 2%: 530. 1900. In 1899 the writer came to the conclusion that Flodman’s Montana specimen, since taker up by Dr. Rydberg as the type of this species, was undescribed; but he did not associate with it the other specimens enumerated by Rydberg, and as noted above, definitely placed Brown’s Mt. Shasta plant under Calz- Jornicum. Perhaps some of the other specimens cited really do belong to lV. speciosum, but those from California certainly do not. Veratrum Jonesii Probably tall, the specimen very imperfect, showing only the upper flowering part of the stem 4 dm. in length: branches of the panicle many but not crowded, the lowest one 1 dm., the uppermost about 6 cm. long, the prolongation of the main stem extending about 1 dm. above the branches, all covered with soft woolly hairs: pedicels slender, maximum length about 8 mm.: outer perianth segments obovate-spatulate, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide across the rounded top, the inner a little narrower, stand- ing well apart from each other at the base, prominently veined and somewhat pubescent, especially on the claw, a narrow dark line extending along either edge of the claw, but not confluent at base: stamens about 4 mm. long: immature capsules over 2 cm. long, 1 cm. across, tipped by the rather widely spreading awn-pointed stigma lobes of 2 mm. The type is no 6584, collected by Marcus E. Jones on the Middle Fork of the Weiser river, Washington county, Idaho, August 3, 1899, altitude 4500 feet, the original label bearing the name “Veratrum Californicum.” Imperfect as is the speci- men, it is very different from Californicum in its floral charac- ters, and is apparently a larger plant. VERATRUM CAUDATUM Heller, Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 588. 1899. Outside of the type collection distributed by the writer, this interesting species has not been reported. In his Flora of Northwest America, 663, Mr. Howell states that it does not dif- 125 fer according to description from V. Calzfornicum except “in glabrous leaves.” But Mr. Howell’s Calzfornicum is plainly _an aggregate, and perhaps the real species is unknown to him. VERATRUM TENUIPETALUM Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: 39. 1904, This well-marked species should be looked for throughout Colorado and New Mexico, and will probably prove peculiar to the southern Rocky mountains. VERATRUM FIMBRIATUM A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. %: 391. 1868. This, the most remarkable species in the genus, is quite local, thus far having been reported only from the type locality, along the coast of Mendocino county, near Mendocino, Califor- nia, where it is said to be plentiful. A NEW LINANTHUS - Linanthus Eastwoodae Linanthus serrulatus Milliken, Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot. 2% 60. 1904; not Greene, Erythea, 3: 120. 1895. Annual, diffuse, about 1 dm. high, the lower branches some- what procumbent, the others diverging and ascending, often purplish, pubescent with short hairs which are inclined to be retrorse: internodes few, of varying length, the longest about 4 cm.: leaves dull green, those of the stem a pair at each inter- node, 2 cm. or less in length and as wide, palmately parted into about 8 linear acerose segments I mm. wide, sparingly armed with spine-like hairs, the margin more densely so; the basal part of the leaf entire, broadly obovate or roundish, 2-4 mm. across; involucral leaves similar but more spinose: flowers few; calyx 1 cm. long, the glabrous tube only 2 mm. long, the nar- rowly linear-lanceolate lobes over I mm. wide at base, long acuminate, connected at the base for nearly 2 mm. by a mem- brane, sparingly spinose hairy like the leaves: corolla 2 cm. long, the slender, almost filiform purplish tube about 16 mm. 126 long; throat funnelform, yellow, less than 2 mm. long, and as wide across the top; lobes rose-color or pink when fresh, quadrate- oblong; over 2 mm. long, the apex a_ little unevenly rounded: stamens I mm. shorter than the corolla; anthers bright yellow, broadly oblong, 1 mm. long: pistil a little longer than the sta- mens: capsule oblong, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide: seeds (appar- ently immature) quadrate oblong and oblique, 1 mm. long, pale and greenish with narrow hyaline wings. The type was collected by the writer May 6, 1902, in fields near Clear Creek Post Office, Butte county, California. It is with pleasure that I dedicate this species to Miss Alice East- wood, Curator of the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences, to whom I am indebted for many courtesies. It is telated to ZL. dzcolor, but is easily distinguished by its larger size, diffuse habit, and more slender corolla tube. To this is referable a specimen in the herbarium of the Cal- ifornia Academy of Sciences, collected by Buckminster at Ma- dera, May, 1889, from which Miss Milliken described her “Zz nanthus serrulatus Greene; but true serrulatus, also collected by Buckminster at the same time and place, is a very different plant, as evinced by the original description, and by a specimen in the Academy herbarium which Miss Milliken evidently did not see. Here also belongs a specimen collected by Blaisdell at Mokelumne Hill, April 15, r900, giving the species a range along the foothills of the Sierra from the central part of the State north into Butte county at least. Those who do not rec- ognize Lzxanthus as distinct from Gz/za, may call this species Gilia Eastwoodae Heller. Volume 1 No. 8 MUHLENBERGIA A. A. HELLER, Editor AB pen OY Lee ee NEW Y Los GATos, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24, 1906 [All unsigned articles in this journal are by the Editor, and the types of all new species described by him are deposited in his private herbarium, unless otherwise stated. ] NOMENCLATORIAL CHANGES IN THE ORCHIDACEAE By HomeER D. HOUSE The revision of the North American Orchidaceae north of Mexico for the forthcoming third edition of Heller’s Catalogue, made at Mr. Heller’s request, necessitates some changes in their nomenclature, which are herewith presented. _ Lysias macrophylla (Goldie) House ~ 1906 Hlabenaria macrophylla Goldie, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 6: Ban. Teé22. Platanthera orbiculata Lindl. Orch. Pl. 286. 1835. Lystas orbiculata Rydb. in Britton, Manual, 294. 1901; in part. Blephariglottis alba (Michx.) House Orchis ciliarts var. alba Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 156. 1803; not Orchis alba Lam. 1778. Orchts blephariglottis Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 9. 1805. Flabenaria blephariglottis Torr. Comp. 317. 1826. Flabenaria ciliarts var. alba Morong, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 3G. 1892. Blephariglottis Blephariglottis Rydb. in Britton, Manual, 296. Igot. 128 By the code of nomenclature proposed by the Botanical Club of the Ametican Association for the Advancement of Science, the varietal name proposed by Michaux is not invali- dated by Lamarck’s earlier specific name. The combination of Blephariglotizs blephariglotizs is against the recent ruling of the Vienna Botanical Congress, so that the adoption of the earliest name for this species seems to be the best solution. Ibidium Beckii (Lindl.) House Spiranthes Beckit Lindl. Orch. Pl. 472. 1840. excl. syn. Spiranthes simplex Gray, Manual, Ed. 5, 506. 1867; not Griseb. Sprranthes Grayt Ames, Rhodora, 6: 44. 1904. Gyrostachys simplex Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pt. Il. 664. 1801. Ibidium laciniatum (Small) House Gyrostachys laciniata Small, Fl. Southeastern U. S. 318. 1903. Spiranthes laciniata Ames, Orch. 120. 1905. Ibidium longilabris (Lindl.) House Spiranthes longilabris Lindl. Orch. Pl. 467. 1840. Sptranthes brevifolia Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 462. 1860. Gyrostachys brevifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pt. II. 664. 1891. Ibidium odoratum (Nutt.) House Neottia odorata Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 98. 1834. Sprranthes odorata Lindl. Orch. Pl. 467. 1840. _Gyrostachys odorata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pt. II. 664. 1891. Gyrostachys triloba Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 609. 1808. Ibidium ovalis (Lind!.) House Sprranthes ovalis Lindl. Orch. Pl. 466. 1840. Spiranthes cernua var. parviflora Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. Ed. 3, 488. 1897. Gyrostachys parviflora Small, Fl. Southeastern U. S. 318. 1903. Sprranthes parviflora Ames, Orch. 137. 1905. 129 “ Ibidium praecox (Walt.) House Limodorum praecox Walt. Fl. Car. 221.- 1788. Spiranthes tortilis Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 462. 1860; not Rich. Spiranthes praecox Wats. Gray’s Manual, Ed. 6,503. 1890, | as to syn. Gyrostachys praecox Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pt. II..663. 1891. . Ibidium Romanzoffianum (Cham.) House |, Sprranthes Romanzofiana Cham. Linnaea, 3: 32. 1828. Neottia gemmipara Smith, Eng. Fl. 4: 36. 1828. Spzranthes gemmipara Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. 257 1829. Gyrostachys Romanzoffiana MacM. Met..Minn. 171. 1892, . as to syn. Orchiastrum Romanzofianum Greene, Man. Bot. San Fran. . Bay, 306. 1894. Ibidium tortilis (Sw.) House Satyrium spirale Sw. Prodr.. 118. 1788; not lézdium spi- rale Salisb. Neottra tortilis Sw. in Schrad. Neues Journ: 1: 51. 1805. Fl. Ind. Dec. 3: 1406. 1806. Sprranthes tortilis L.. C. Rich. Mem. Mus. Par. 4:2 59. 1818... Gyrostachys peruviana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pt. H. 663. 1891; not Ophrys peruviana .Aubl. 1775. ; Ibidium x intermedium (Ames) House Spiranthes x intermedium Ames, Rhodora, 5: 262.1903. . (gracilis x vernal). Epidendrum ramosum (Focke) House Tsochilus ramosus Focke, Tijdschr. Natuurk. Weteusch. 4: GO)... SS Epidendrum, strobiliferum, Reichenb.. f.. NederL.. Krindk. Arch, 4% 333... 1858. Epidendrum triandrum (Ames) House / Epidendrum cochleatum vat. triandrum. Ames, Cont. Ames. Bot. Lab. 1: 16. 1904. 130 A NEW SPECIES OF DICHONDRA By Homer D. HOUSE By most authors the Dichondraceae Dumort, is regarded as a tribe or subfamily of the Convolvulaceae. It seems, however, that the character of two separate carpels with basally attached styles is of sufficient morphological importance to warrant the separation proposed by Dumort. . The following new species from southern California and the adjacent islands is related to D. refens, and that relationship together with the position of the other species native to the United States is best expressed by the following key: Sepals obtuse Sepals shorter than the capsules, about 1.5 mm. long; corolla exceeding the calyx Leaves broadly reniform, entire, 2 to 5 cm. broad, nearly glabrous. Southern California and adjacent islands D. occidentalis Leaves cordate-orbicular, repand-crenate, I to 2cm. broad, pubescent. West Indian. D. repens Sepals longer than the capsules, 1.5 to 3 mm. long; corolla shorter than the calyx; plant pubescent or glabrate; sepals conspicuously spatulate. Southeastern U. S. D. Carolinensis Sepals acute; leaf blades silvery-pubescent; corolla exceeding the calyx. New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico. D. argentea Dichondra occidentalis sp. nov. Stem perennial, slender, creeping, branching, 10 to 40 cin. long, glabrate, or appressed pubescent when young with silvery hairs: leaf-blades large, broadly reniform, 2 to 5 cm. broad, 1 to 3.cm. long, usually retuse at the apex, glabrous or with some scattered pubescence, dark green above, paler beneath, shallowly cordate and somewhat cuneate at the base, 7-merved; petioles 5 to 8 cm. long, pubescent toward the base: peduncies filiform, 1 to 2 cm. long: calyx turbinate, densely pubescent, its lobes obo- vate, 1.5 mm. long, blunt or rounded, scarcely enlarged in fruit: corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx, subrotate, white, its Te lobes ovate, obtuse: capsules about 4 mm. high, subglobose, sericeous-pubescent: seeds brown, glabrous, 1.5 mm. long. San Diego, California, C. R. Orcutt, January 7, 1884. Type in the United States National Herbarium. Lower California, Todos Santos Island, A. W. Anthony (No. 191) 1897. Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California, Blanche Trask, April, 1898. 132 WESTERN SPECIES, NEW AND OLD.—V. Dichelostemma pulchellum (Salisb.) Flookera pulchella Salisb. Parad. Lond. 2: fl. 777. 1808. Brodiaea pulchella Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2: 133. 1886. This species has commonly been confused with D. conges- tum, and has never apparently been transferred to the genus where it belongs. Cytherea occidentalis (Holzinger) Calypso bulbosa forma occidentalis Holzinger, Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 251. 1895. Calypso occidentalis Heller, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 193. 1808. The writer collected the type of this plant, and again got it at type locality in 1896. It has never been properly described, but some day we hope to find it again here in California, and carefully diagnose it in the living state. Spraguea montana (Jones) Spraguea umbellata var. montana Jones, Bull. Torr. Club, Di 20. 1SEs2: Calyptridium nudum Greene, Pittonia, 1:64. 1887. Spraguea nuda Howell, Erythea, 1: 39. 1893. The writer obtained this species July 27, 1903, no. 7024, east of Summit Station near the railroad crossing, at practically the type locality, for the types of both Jones and Greene were from the immediate neighborhood. It was also seen on Castle Peak and at other near-by points. From living plants it was noted that the petals are ovate-oblong, very slightly contracted below, acuminate and cuspidate, 2 mm. wide but commonly somewhat involute, which in dried specimens would no doubt cause the narrow appearance described by Greene. The sta- mens are yellow, as noted by Jones, who also remarks that “the var. grows at a higher altitude than the typical form, generally < Wa close to snow.” This fact was also observed at our station, where .S. wmbellata occurts sparingly and apparently reaches its altitudinal limit, 7000 feet, not having been seen at higher ele- vations, and .S. montana apparently does not descend below 7000 feet. It has a very different appearance both in the field and in the herbarium, although at the point where the two spe- cies meet one may find an occasional intergrading form. ‘That it is a mutate of .S. wmbellata is altogether probable, but to me it seems absurd to question its validity simply because transition forms may be found at the point where the two species overlap. RIBES This genus is one that lends itself very well to critical ex- amination in the dried state, but observation has shown me that all plants can be studied better when fresh, and some only in that state if we want to get at their true characters. In #zbes at least so far as the gooseberries are concerned, the comparative length of stamens and petals seems to furnish good characters, but the flower should be in its prime if satis- factory results are to be obtained. In young flowers the sta- mens are liable to be too short, and descriptions should not be based upon such material. kibes occidentale is common about Los Gatos, inhabiting especially the low hills bordering the valley. In all the flowers thus far examined from numerous bushes and at widely sepa- rated points, the style is 2-parted, but in newly opened flowers the two parts are pressed so closely together that one making only a superficial examination might conclude that the organ is entire. ‘To the description of this species given on page 88 of this volume, may be added the Cede felteyg stamens with a short recurved mucro. Ribes subvestitum. ‘The remarks concerning the style of R. occidentale apply equally well to this species, for in young flowers the two parts are often so united that one must actually pull them apart, but so far as observed they are never really 134 united in the true sense of the word. The original description says that “in all the flowers except one the style is decidedly simple, but in that one it is bifid to near the middle.” Mature fruit of this species was observed for the first time last summer. It is yellow, almost the color of old gold, but a trifle paler, glo- bose, the body at least 8 mm. in diameter, densely covered with weak glandular bristles about 5 mm. long. It is a handsome species, the large white petals showing well against the deep maroon of the sepals. The anthers are connivent around the style, and are surmounted by a short outcurved mucro. Ribes Parishii Shrub, the bark whitened with a soft close tomentum: in- frastipular spines apparently single, rather slender, declined, pale brown, tomentose at the base, about 1 cm. long: leaves broadly ovate or orbicular in outline, 3 cm. long and as broad, or larger on young shoots, 3-lobed, the lobes coarsely crenate, or the lateral ones sometimes slightly 2-lobed, white villous below and on the margins, green and glabrate above when mature; petioles slender, villous, usually equalling the blade: peduncles slender, declined, about 2 cm. long, densely villous, usually with several short branches near the end, each of which is sub- tended by a small (1 mm.) roundish densely villous bract: flow- ers several in a cluster, but only one or two from each pedicel; pedicels slender, villous, about 5 mm. long: calyx 8 or 9 mm. long, purplish-red, strigose pubescent without, the tube campan- ulate, 4 mm. long and nearly as wide across the top, pubescent within; the lobes oblong, a little over 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, glabrous and yellowish or greenish on the inside, the end rounded: petals fan-shaped, colored like the outside of the sepals, 2mm. long and as wide, delicately veined: stamens equalling but not exceeding the unreflexed calyx; filaments rather stout; anthers pale yellow, oblong, 1 mm. long: style densely villous on the lower half, 2-parted to the middle (or occasionally 3- parted), exserted 2 mm. beyond the stamens: ovary glabrous or sometimes a little villous. 1 i) The type was collected by Mr. S. B. Parish in San Bernard- ino Valley, San Bernardino county, California, altitude 1000 feet, March 15, 1905, no. 5364, and sent to me under the name Ribes divaricatum. It differs from that species in gross appear- ance by its white villous leafles and larger flowers, and upon closer examination in its naked instead of setose or aculeate stems; in its pubescent instead of glabrous leaves; in the flower clusters longer instead of shorter than the leaves; in the calyx lobes only as long or very slightly exceeding the tube instead of twice as long, and in the stamens only equalling instead of much exserted from the calyx. Mr. Stewardson Brown, Curator of the herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, to whom a speci- men was sent for comparison with the type of Nuttall’s Rzdes villosum, says “it differs from it in having larger flowers, larger peduncles and less hairy calyx; general leaf form is about the same, but more densely villous, as is also the stem. However, it is nearer this species in general characters than what we have called R. divaricatum Doug.” Trifolium inconspicuum (Fernald) Trifolium gracilentum vat. inconspicuum Fernald, Zoe, 4: 380. 18094. I have before me a specimen which no doubt belongs to this species, Mr. S. B. Parish’s no. 5220, collected May 4, 1903, near San Bernardino, California, the type locality. In all save size of flower heads, this specimen is several times larger than the original. It may be distinguished at once from typical 7; gracilentum of the Bay region by the peculiar grey-green color of the foliage. The flowers are paler and broader, and the seeds apparently lighter in color. These points, together with the calyx as long or longer than the flower, seem to warrant a spe- cific name for this plant. I can see no object in burdening literature with varietal or form names. If a plant is considered distinct enough for a £264 name, it should be called. a: species and fz/ly described instead of being launched into the botanical world equipped with little else than a name. Many plants cannot* be recognized by their “descriptions” alone, for the chief characters are not mentioned, only some of the minor ones; and of such so-called descriptions we have not a few. © Trifolium Grantianum Trifolium monanthum tenerum Parish, Bot. Gaz. 38: 461..: 1904: not 7: ¢enerum Eastw. Perennial, matted caespitose from running rootstocks, glab- rous throughout leaves generally longer than the internodes; petioles filiform, longer than the leaflets; these oblanceolate: or- cuneate, 5-12 mm. long, I.4 mm. wide, aristate-acuminate or: some truncate and slightly notched, ‘conspicuously veiny, the » margins setosely serrulate; stipules lanceolate, adnate for barely half their length,-8 mm. long or less, the larger over 2 mun. wide, the lower adnate part either partly scarious or green; the upper free part green, aristate pointed, margins entire: heads commonly 2-flowered on filiform peduncles shorter than the sub- tending leaf: involucre 2 mm. long of several lanceolate or ob- long bracts barely united at base, the apex either simple or with two or three short aristate teeth: calyx cylindrical or somewhat campanulate, 4 mm. long, the tube 2 mm. long, more or less membranous, veins prominent; the narrowly lanceolate teeth aristate, green: corollas 1 em. long, slender, 2 mm. across, whit- ish, the hood of the keel purple. It has been impossible with the means at hand to properly dissect the flower, but the several parts are apparently destitute of the teeth and auriculations pres- ent in 7. ¢enerum. The type is Geo. B. Grant’s no. 6343, collected July 23; 1904, on Mt. San Gorgonio, San Bernardino county, California, distributed as 7rzfolium tenerum Eastw. But Miss Eastwood’s description in Bull. Torr. Club, 29: 81. 1g02, shows a number of differences, prominent among them being ‘“‘canescent and 137 softly villous throughout with fine white loosely-spreading hairs.” Mr. Parish cites Mr. Grant’s plant as part of his 7- monanthum tenerum, but if the plant of his own collecting is identical with ours, he did not have 7. ¢enerum Eastw. 7. Grantianum has branches 1 dm. or more in length. The foli- age is blue-green in color. Although belonging to the same group, it is very different from typical 7: monanthum. Hesperastragalus dispermus (Gray) Astragalus dispermus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 13: 365. 1878. The type of this species was collected at Wickenburg, Ari- zona, by Dr. Palmer, in 1876. ‘The plant has also been found in southeastern California. To the writer this genus appeals as one of the most distinct of the Astragalus segregates. Not only do the plants not re- semble true Astragalus in outward appearance, but the peculiar pod, almost two-parted in the type species, is a strong character, outwardly evident, without the necessity of cross-sectioning. It is altogether possible that flower characters may be found to reinforce fruit characters in these different genera when the liv- ing plants are studied, which is the only way to properly study them. Since the above was written it has been possible to exam- ine fresh flowers of the two common species. The structure is essentially that of a Z7zfolium flower. The banner is almost plane, either slightly concave on the ventral side with rounded entire apex (this noted in a perhaps undescribed form from the San Joaquin valley), or asin A. Gambellianus from Los Gatos the ventral side with a longitudinal depression, the rounded apex notched and slightly turned back. The wings are about three-fourths the length of the banner, standing almost parallel with it, and away from the keel, this latter as long as the wings or nearly so, broad in proportion to the size of the flower, the hooded apex not much deeper than the body. 138 Whether Astragalus Brazoensis should be included in Hes- perastragalus,1 do not know, not at present having material for comparison. The three species which are known to me may be distinguished as follows: Pods erect Slightly longer than the black-hirsute calyx H. didymocarpus Not exceeding the white-villous calyx H. dispermus Pods deflexed, much longer than the calyx H. Gambellianus Acrolasia parviflora Mentzelia parviflora Heller, Bull. Totr. Club, 25: 199. 1898. This species seems to have escaped a change of name when Dr. Rydberg transferred the Mentzelaa names which belong to this genus. I can find no reference to the use of Bartonia par- viflora Douglas, which could invalidate the present name. Professor Greene has recently pointed out (Leaflets, 1: 168), that the type of the genus M/onardella is a plant of the eastern side of the continent, not congeneric with our western plants which have been called Monardella, and therefore very properly assigns to them a new name, calling them M/adronella. The writer has recently published several species in this genus, and will now transfer them to their proper name. Madronella involucrata Monardella involucrata Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: 34. 1904. Madronella mollis Monardella mollis Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: 35. 1904. Madronella coriacea Monardella cortacea Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: 35. 1904. Madronella pallida | Monardella pallida Heller, Mublenbergia, 1: 36. 1904. Madronella pinetorum Monardella pinetorum Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: 36. 1904. Volume 1 No. g MUHLENBERGIA A. A. HELLER, Editor Los GaTos, CALIFORNIA, JULY 30, 1906 [All unsigned articles in this journal are by the Editor, and the types of all new species described by him are deposited in his private herbarium, unless otherwise stated. ] COLORADO NOTES DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES By GEORGE E. OSTERHOUT Allionia montanensis Perennial from a tuberous root: stems usually two or three, slender, 5-7 dm. high, branching above, whitish below, glabrous up to the branches of the inflorescence which are glandular pu- bescent: leaves narrowly linear, 5-7 cm. long, tapering to both ends, becoming smaller and bract-like at the nodes above: invo- lucres numerous, 5 mm. high, usually 3-flowered, hirsute: flowers bright purple: fruit obovate, 5-angled, but the ribs small, pubes- cent with a fine and close pubescence, scarcely tubercled between the ribs, 3 mm. long. Distinguished from Adlzonta linearis by the more slender stem and leaves, smaller involucre, and especially by the smaller less distinctly ribbed and tubercled fruit. Type specimens col- lected in the canyon of the Thompson river, near the forks of the river, Larimer county, Colorado, August 16, 1905, no. 3078. Collected also in the canyon of the Cache La Pouder, near Home Post Office, July, 1904. (139) 140 Astragalus (Xylophacos) punieeus Perennial from the root, the stems decumbent, about 3 dm. long, pubescent throughout with a short close silvery pubes- cence, much branched: leaves pubescent like the stem, the rachis about 6cm. long and having 6-9 pairs of oblong or obovate leaf- lets each 7-10 mm. long: inflorescence in a loose head becoming spike-like, the corollas z cm. long, purple, glabrous, the banner darker: calyx 1cm. long, pubescent with a whitish woolly pu- bescence, the teeth 3mm. long and acuminate: legume coria- ceous, sessile, 2 cm. long, curved and pointed, pubescent with a whitish pubescence and slightly mottled, without a partition, but the lower suture impressed. The stem of this plant is much longer than in other species of this section of Astragalus as I know them, but the legume is like that of Astragalus Missouriensis and its allies. Collected at Trinidad, Las Animas county, Colorado, June 28, 1898, no. 1737: Erigeron paucipetalus A small perennial growing in clumps, the stems about 1.5dm. high, the upper portion glandular, the lower portion and the leaves glabrous: root leaves narrowly obovate or oblanceo- late and rounded or slightly pointed, tapering to a petiole, 5-8 mm. wide, about 3cm. long including the petiole; lower stem leaves very narrow and acuminate, 2mm. wide and 3cm. long, becoming smaller and bract-like upward: stem branched into a racemiform inflorescence, the upper heads on peduncles 3 cm. or more long: involucre glandular, the bracts narrow, about 5mm. long, in two series, the outer somewhat shorter than the inner: rays rather large, few, 16-20, purple. The relationship of this Erzgeroz is not plain; it is quite different from other Colorado species so far as Iam acquainted with them, but might be placed in the section with Arigeron caespitosus. Collected about the sulphur springs at Sulphur Springs, Grand county, Colorado, July 16, 1905, no. 3051. 14i - Gnaphalium albatum A much branched peretinial(?) upright and rather stout, the stem and leaves covered with a silvery white tomentum, but the leaves less so on the upper surface: stem about 3 din. high, very leafy, the lower leaves oblanceolate, 3cem. long by rem. wide, sessile, the upper becoming smaller: heads numerous and ‘glomerate on the ends of the branches, 5-7 mm. high; involucres woolly only at base, ends of the bracts white and pointed: her- maphrodite flowers very few. A species seemingly nearest related to Guaphalium Wright A. Gray. Collected in the canyon of the Thompson river, between the foothills and Estes Park, Larimer county, Colorado, August 16, 1905, no. 3158. Carduus laterifolius Stems rather slender, 6-8dm. high, branched above, almost glabrous at the time of flowering: leaves broad, oblong, 1-1.5 dm. long, 5-6cm. wide, sessile by a broad auriculate base but scarcely decurrent on the stem, glabrous above, white beneath with a close short tomentum, three to four large triangular teeth on each side tipped with a weak spine about 3mm. long, and numerous prickles on the edge of the leaf, the leaves smaller above and beconiing entire: heads few and single at the ends of the branches, 2.5cm. long including the flowers, the portion made by the bracts 1.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, subtended by one or two small leaves, or some of the heads by iarger leaves ex- ceeding them in length: the bracts in four series of successive lengths, the outer 5-7 mm. long, 2imm. wide at base, glabrous except for slight tomentum on the edges, the outer having a weak spine, the inner a longer soft tip which is somewhat re- flexed; all the bracts except the innermost slightly fimbriate on the upper edges, and having a small glandular ridge which shows as a dark spot on the dried specimens: flowers whitish, the pappus brownish. 142 Probably nearest related to Carduus oreophlius Rydb. Col- lected in the canyon of the Thompson river, between the foot- hills and Estes Park, Larimer county, Colorado, August 16, 1905, 10. 3090. Ptilocalais tenuifolia One to three scapose stems 1-2dm. high from a fusiform root, surrounded at the base by narrowly linear leaves 2mm. wide and 1 cm. or more long, entire or some of them having dis- tant down-pointing linear lobes, the stem also bearing one or two similar leaves: each stem bearing a single head or sending out one or two branches from the axils of the leaves: the whole plant glabrous except some slight dark pubescence on the in- volucre: the involucre 12-15 mm. long in two series of 12-15 lin- ear acuminate bracts, with a few calyculate ones at base: achenes striate, truncate at summit, 5mm. long and slightly attenuate downward: pappus of 15-18 plumose sordid bristles, paleaceous at base, each bristle about 7 mm. long, the paleaceous portion a little more than 1mm. long. Collected at Sulphur Springs, Grand county, Colorado, June 28, 1905, no. 2998—a fruiting specimen—and in flower at the same place June 11, 1906, no. 3235. Readily distinguished from Przlocalats nutans (Geyer) Greene, by the narrow leaves and sordid pappus. Crepis exilis Seemingly a perennial, one or two slender stems from a tap-root, cinereus pubescent, becoming glabrate: leaves mostly at the base with scarious sheaths and short petioles, laciniate pinnatifid, 1dm. long or some of them a little longer, tapering into a rather slender prolongation, the main body of the leaf 4-5mm. wide, the linear lobes 1cm. long; two or three stem leaves similar but much reduced in size, and the uppermost lan- ceolate and entire: stem branching at the top and having 3-5 heads on moderately short peduncles: principal bracts of the in- 143 volucre 10-12, linear and acuminate, about 1cm. long, grayish pubescent, a very few calyculate unes at base: achenes striate, fusiform but tapering more upward than downward, about 7 mm. long, and the bright white pappus the same length. Seemingly somewhat related to Crepzs gracthls (D C. Eaton) Rydb., but smaller. Collected at Sulphur Springs, Grand county, Colorado, June 28, 1905, no. 2979. Agoseris leptocarpa Perennial, one to four stems 1-1.5dm. high from the root, slightly woolly pubescent at the base of the bracts: leaves linear, from entire to runcinate pinnatifid, 5-8cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, the lobes 3-5 mm. long, glabrous and a little glaucous or some- times slightly villous-pubescent: heads about 2cm. high, the bracts in three series, the outer about 7 mm. long, slightly pu- bescent, the inner 15mm. long, glabrous: achenes fusiform, 5 mum. long, striate, tapering into a beak 5 mm. long, the bright white pappus 8-9 mm. long. Related to Agoserts gractlzs, but distinguished from it by the smaller size and the smaller achenes. No other of our Rocky mountain species, so far as I know, have achenes so small. Collected near Coulter Post Office, in Middle Park, Col- orado, June 29, 1905, no. 2972. 144 WESTERN SPECIES, NEW AND OLD.—VI. Beckwithia juniperina (Jones) Ranunculus Andersonit var. tenellus Wats. Bot. King Rep. Fpl. L- fiSe TO ley ts Ranunculus guntperinus Jones, Proc. Cal. Acad. II. 5: 616. 1895. Jones has very properly supplied this plant with a tenable name, but the long delay in recognizing its distinctness from the plant originally called Ranunculus Andersoni seems due to the fact that it has been rarely collected. The original was from ‘Pilot Rock Point, Salt Lake, Utah.” In Pittonia, 3: 128-130, Professor Greene points out that Chetranthus, not Erystmum, is the proper name for this genus of plants, and his reasons seem conclusive to me. However, Erysimum is still retained as the proper name by most botan- ists, although no one, I believe, has shown that Professor Greene is in the wrong. Until such proof is furnished, I shall con- tinue the use of Chezranthus. The forthcoming third edition of the “Catalogue of North American Plants” necessitates the change of combination for the sake of uniformity Cheiranthus alpestris (Cockerell) Erysimum asperum {. alpestre Cockerell, Bull. Torr. Club, 18: 168. 1801. Erysimum alpestre Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 28: 277. IgOl. Cheiranthus oblanceolatus (Rydb.) Erysimum oblanceolatum Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 31: 557: 1904. Cheiranthus radicatus (Rydb.) Erysimum radicatum Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 31: 558. 1904. 145 Cheiranthus grandifiorus (Nutt.) Erysimum grandtfiorum Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 13 96. 1838. This species is quite local, being known only from the type locality, “‘sand hills of Point Pinos, in the vicinity of Monterey, Upper California.” Draba ammophila Draba FHellert Small, Fl. S. U. S. 479. 1903; not Draba Helleriana Greene, Pittonia, 4: 17. 1899. The type of this species is my no. 1379, collected March 5, 1894, in sandy soil along the beach at Corpus Christi, Texas, and distributed as a dwarf form of D. cunezfolta. Homalobus Wingatanus (Wats.) Astragalus Wingatanus Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 18: 192. 1883. Homalobus Wingatensts Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 31: 563. 1904.? A question mark is added to the last citation, since I merely infer that it belongs here. Dr. Rydberg cites no authority nor place of publication, merely saying: ‘This species is perhaps closest related to Homalobus wingatensis (4. wengatensis).” I can find no reference in the literature at hand to an Astragalus Wingatensts. Three years ago I collected at Donner Pass in the Sierras a plant which was supposed to be a Phlox. To my surprise it proved to belong to the aggregation called Gz/za, which is still in need of pruning, notwithstanding the recent segregations. The genus Leftodacty/on should undoubtedly be restored, differ- ing as it does from the typical Gz/za of South America in the fact that it is shrubby, with fascicled rigid and pungent leaves, and has flowers of another shape. Up to the present eight named forms have been recognized, all but three already under Leptodactylon, and these three I now transfer. 146 Leptodactylon patens Gilia pungens vat. squarrosa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 267. 1870; not Gzlza sguarrosa H. & A. Leptodactylon Hallii (Parish) Gita Hlallit Parish, Erythea, 7: 94. 1899. Gila pungens vat. Halli Milliken, Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot. 2:42. 1904. Leptodactylon tenuilobum (Parish) Gilta tenuzloba Parish, Erythea, 7: 95. 1899. Gila pungens vat. tenutloba Milliken, Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot. 2: 43. 1904. Navarretia erecta Stems rather slender, about 3dm. high, with several erect branches above, pale, pubescent with soft white spreading or tangled hairs, glandular above: lower leaves if any, absent, those on the middle and upper part of the stem scattered, sessile, from I-2cem. long, about 1 cm. wide, cut into unequally pinnate rather distant very narrow almost filiform divisions with acerose tips, pubescent like the stem, and glandular: flowering heads dense, 2cem. high and as broad: bracts like the leaves but proportion- ately shorter and broader, pubescent and glandular: calyx 8 or gmm. long, of five unequal narrow acerose divisions equalling or somewhat exceeding the tube, from one to three of them with one or two pairs of narrow divisions like the leaves and bracts, strongly ciliate with long chaffy hairs as well as glandular; tube 4mm. long, with a narrow membrane between the broader straw-colored central part which is only faintly veined, not ribbed: corolla violet-blue, 1cm. long, the slender tube about 7mm. long, the throat funnel-form, 2mm. wide above; lobes ovate, blunt and rounded, barely 2mm. long and about as wide: capsule rather tlin walled; seeds pale brown, apparently only two, ovate-oblong, 1 mm. long. 147 The type was obtained along the roadside near Ukiah, Men- docino county, California, July 11, 1902, only a few specimens collected. In general appearance it resembles such species as NV. melltta and N. squarrosa. Aloysia Wrightii (Gray) Lippia Wrights Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 16: 98. 1854. _ Anaphalis sierrae Stems from running rootstocks, 5 or 6dm high, rather weak, simple, clothed with a close cottony pubescence, leafy throughout: leaves thin, pubescent like the stem, but much less so, the upper side dull green, only scantily pubescent, the lower side paler but not white, indistinctly 3-nerved, oblong-lanceolate, acute and shortly apiculate, the larger ones on the middle part of the stem about 7cm. long, I cm. wide, those above and below somewhat sinaller, all sessile, the lower ones somewhat narrowed: heads several, corymbose-cymose, the peduncles and pedicels densely short woolly: bracts of the involucre numerous, pearly white, ovate. oblong, 4mm. long, 2mm. or more wide, obtuse or merely acutish. The type is my no. 7116, collected along the wagon road between Donner Lake and Donner Pass, at about 6500 feet, growing among shrubs, the rather weak stems somewhat sup- ported by them. It was distributed as A. subalfzna, the type of which came from the Rocky mountains, but differs from that species in its thinner, less pointed leaves, dull instead of light green above, and in the less ample inflorescence with smaller flowers and less pointed involucral bracts. H. E. Brown’s 551 frem Mt. Shasta is the same, and no doubt all the specimens of this genus from the Sierra Nevada should be referred here. / Carduus Tioganus (Congdon) Cnicus Troganus Congdon, Erythea, 7: 186. 1900. 148 INDEX Abama Californica 47 Artemisia monocephala 118 — occidentalis 47 Pattersont 118 Achillea arenicola 61 potentillotdes 7 Actinomeris xudzcaulis 8 Aster venustus 8 Acrolasia parviflora 138 Astragalus dispermus 137 Aecidium Wedeliae 16 puniceus 140 Rivinae 20 Audibertia pachystachya 4 Agastache Cusickii 59 Vaseyt 59 glaucifolia 32 Auricularia auricula 20 scrophulariaefolius 4 delicata 20 Agoseris leptocarpa 143 Beckwithia juniperina 144 Allionia montanensis 143 Bigelovia 6 Aloysia Wrightii 147 Blephariglottis alba 127 Alsinella czl/zata 50 Blephariglottis 127 Amorpha Texana 30 Boisduvalia imbricata 42 Amsonia Texana 2 sparsiflora 42 Anaphalis occidentalis 46 Boykinia 53 sierrae 147 Brauneria angustifolia 5 subalpina 147 Brodiaea pulchella 132 Antennaria plantaginifolia 5 Brittonastrum lanceolatum 4 Antirrhinum appendiculatum 44 Tupestre 4 vagans 44 Bryanthus Aleuticus 1 Apiosporium 10 Breweri 1 Aplopappus zzsecticruris 7 Calypso occidentalis 132 laceratus 7 Calyptridium zudum 132 Macleanw 7 Campanula Californica 46 Aquilegia desertorum 27 linnaetfolia 46 Arcyria punicea 18 Carduus bipinnatus 5 Arnica Grayi 5 caleareus 5 149 Carduus ciliolatus 5 Cnicus clavatus § clavatus 5 ' diffusus 6 diffusus 6 hesperius 6 hesperius 6 nidulus 6 inamoenus OI Tioganus 147 laterifolius 147 Cortinarius Sintensii 22 Tioganus 147 Crepis exilis 142 Vaseyi 61 Cytherea occidentalis 132 Castilleja camporum 45 Dalea nana 30 lutea 45 Darluca filum 23 Cedronella cana 4 Diapedium attenuatum 5 rupestris 4 Dichelostemma pulchellum 132 Cephalanthera Austznae 49 ~~ Dichondra occidentalis 130 Oregana 49 Dicliptera brachiata 5 Cerastium maximum 50 Dictyophora phalloidea 22 Cercospora Portoricensis 15 Doassansia Sintensii 19 Cercosporidium Helleri 16 Draba ammophila 145 Cheiranthus alpestris 144 Htellert 145 ammophilus 52 viridis 27 grandiflorus 145 Eburophyton Austinae 49 Nevadensis 52 Echinacea angustifolia 5 oblanceolatus 144 Tennesseensis 5 radicatus 144 Echites macrosiphon 2 Chloraea Austinae 49 Elephantella attolens 4 Chrysothamnus appendiculatus6 Endothia longirostris 14 Chthamalia dzflora 3 Ephelis Mexicana 23 pubtfiora 2 Erigeron Cascadensis 6 Cintractia Krugiana 20 paucipetalus 140 Clathrus cancellatus 22 spathulifolius © columnatus 22 spatulifolius 6 Coleosporium Elephantopodis17 Eriodictyon trichocalyx 108 Collinsia texella 5 Erysimum alpestre 144 Cnicus depznmnatus 5 ammophilum 51 calcareus 5 grandifiorum 45 Erysimum Nevadense 52 oblanceolatum 144 radicatum 144 Eunanus clivicola 60 Euphorbia crenulata 55 dictyosperma 56 leptocera 55 Exidia auriformis 19 Fomes hemileucus 21 igniarius 21 ligneus 21 tugulosus 21 Franseria 6 Ganoderma amboinense 21 australe 21 lucidum 21 Geaster mirabilis 23 Gilia Hallit 146 longituba 43 pallida 43 parvula 3 tenutloba 146 violacea 56 Gloeoporus conchoides 22 Gnaphalium albatum 141 Gonolobus dzflorus 3 cynanchoides 2 flavidulus 2 hastulatus 2 parviflorus 2 parvifolius 2 pubrflorus 2 sagitttfolius 3 Guepinia palmiceps 20 150 Guignardia prominens 15 Gymnandra Bulliz 4 Gymnosteris parvula 3 Gyrostachys drevifolia 128 lacintata 128 odorata 128 parviflora 128 Peruviana 129 praecox 129 Romanzoffiana 129 simplex 128 triloba 128 Habenaria blephariglotiis 127 macrophylla 127 Halenia Brentoniana 2 heterantha 2 Hedeoma oblongifolia 4 Helianthus arzstatus 8 Heliotropium oculatum 58 Hesperastragalus dispermus 137 Heuchera lithophila 105 Hookera pulchella 132 Holodiseus glabrescens 40 saxicola 41 Homalobus Wingatanus 145 Wingatensts 145 Hydnum multifidum 21 Hymenochaete Cacao 20 damaecornis 21 Hypoxylon vulgare 18 Ibidium Beckii 128 laciniatum 128 longilabris 128 odoratum 128 151 Ibidium ovalis 128 Lutkea cinerascens 53 praecox 129 Lysias macrophylla 127 Romanzofhanum 129 orbiculata 127 tortilis 129 Macrosiphonia Berlandiert 2 Isochilus ramosus 129 macrosiphon 2 Tsocoma hirtella 6 Madronella coriacea 138 Juglans Californica 50 involucrata 138 major 50 mollis 138 Juncoides subcongestum 105 pallida 138 Kuhnistera pulcherrima 28 pinetorum 138 Lachnostoma hastulata 2 — Melanomma nitidulum 23 parviflora 2 Melanospora Helleri 13 Lacinaria Helleri 6 Meliola amphitricha 23 pilosa 6 glabra 10 Langloisia punctata 57 Ipomoeae 10 Lathyrus ecirrhosus 54 Lagunculariae 11 Lembosia Agaves 15 Panici 12 Lentinus crinitus 22 Piperis 12 Lecomptei 22 Psidii 13 Leontinus nigripes 19 Mentzelia parviflora 138 Leptodactylon Hallii 146 Menziesia Aleutzca 1 patens 146 Microseris nigrescens 8 tenuilobum 146 Microthyrium Lagunculariae 10 Liatris Hellerz 6 Urbani 23 Limodorum praecox 129 Midotis heteromera 23 Linanthus Eastwoodae 125 Mimulus clzvzcola 60 longitubus 43 grandis I10 serrulatus 125 Monardella corzacea 35 Linosyris hzrtella 6 tnvolucrata 34 Lippia Wrights? 147 mollts 35 | Lizonia Jacquiniae 23 pallida 36 Lophanthus 4 pinetorum 36 Lupinus Bridgesii 112 Nabalus alatus 8 deflexus 38 barbatus 8 Watsoni 114 hastatus 8 Nabalus Mainensis 8 Nama racemosa 58 Narthecium Cal/ornicum 47 Navarretia erecta 146 Neottia gemmipara 129 odorata 128 toritlts 129 Nidularia striata 19 Nothocalais nigrescens 8 Nummularia glycyrrhiza 23 Oenothera heterantha 1 Olpidiella uredinis 19 Omphalia lapidescens 22 Orchtastrum 129 Orchis dlephariglotits 127 Orthocarpus bicolor 59 exsertus 109 tenuis 45 Ozonium stuposum 18 Parodiella perisporioides 13 Pedicularis attolens 4 Pentstemon Eastwoodiae 4 intonsus 44 Utahensis 4 152 Polyporus modestus 19 sanguineus 19 sulphureus 21 tricholoma 19 unicolor 19 velutinus 19 Warmingil 21 Polystictus hirsutus 22 membranaceus 21 — occidentalis 22 sanguineus 22 umbonatus 22 Prenanthes Maznenszis 8 Ptilocalais tenuifolia 142 Ptiloria lygodesmoides 7 Puccinia archavaletae 20 Cyperil 17 Eleocharidis 17 heterospora 20 levis 20 spermacoces 20 Pyrrocoma insecticruris 7 Ramona pachvstachya 4 Vaseyi 59 Petalostemon pulcherrimum 28 Ranuncuus Blankinshipii 4o — pubescens 28 virgatum 28 Phacelia xamatozdes 58 Tacemosa 58 Phyllodoce Aleutica 1 Breweri I Platanthera orbzculata 127 Polemoniella micrantha 57 Polemonium mzcrrnthum 57 Polyporus gilvus 2: juniperinus 144 tenuipes 50 Rosa pinetorum 53 ultramontana 107 Rubacer velutinum 106 Rubus velutznus 106 Sabina occidentalis 47 Sagina ciliata 50 Schizophyllum alneum 22 commune 17 153 Schroeteria Cissi 20 Stachys rivularis 33 Scutellaria Sanhedrinsis 31 Stenotus laceratus 7 viarum 32 Macleanii 7 Senecio Jactucinus 7 Stephanomeria lygodesmoides 7 major 118 Stereum lobatum 20 Pagosanus 7 Synthyris Bulli 4 Whippleanus 118 cordata 4 Serratula Azlosa 6 gymnocarpa 5 Sidalcea hydrophila 107 Floughtontana 4 Sisyrinchium maritimum 48 | major 5 Solidago Vaseyi 7 Wyomingensis 5 Sonchus hastatus 8 Tanacetum canum, 7 Sphaeria concentrica 18 capitatum 7 Sphaeromeria cana 7 potentilloides 7 capitata 7 simplex 7 potentilloides 7 Taraxia taraxacifolia 1 simplex 7 Tetragonanthns Brentonianus 2 Sphaerostigma mzzor 1 heteranthus 2 Nelsoni 1 Thelephora multifida 19 Spiraea czmerascens 53 Therofon intermedium 53 Spiranthes Beckz 128 Tithymalus crenulatus 55 brevifolia 128 dictyospermus 56 gemmipara 129 Franciscanus 56 Grayt 128 Tonella collinstordes 5 laciniata 128 tenella 5 longilabris 128 Trametes elegans 22 odorata 128 hydnoides 22 ovalts 128 Trifolium Andrewsii 114 parviflora 128 Grantianum 136 praecox 129 inconspicuum 135 Romanzofiiana 129 parvum 114 tortilis 119 splendens 115 Spraguea montana 132 trichocalyx 55 nuda 132 Tylostoma exasperatum 23 Stachys ramosa 116 Ustilago segetum 18 Valeriana Califoinica 60 Veratrum Californicum 121 Eschscholtzianum 120 fimbriatum 125 Jonesii 124 speciosum 124 tenuipetalum 39 Verbesina aristata 8 nudicaulis 8 Vernonia Guadalupensis 28 Vincetoxicum cynanchoides 2 flavidulum 2 hastulatum 2 parviflorum 2 patvifolium 2 pubiflorum 2 154 Vincetoxicum Wrightii 2 Viorna Arizonica 40 . hirsutissima 40 Vleckia occidentalis 4 Wahlenbergia Calfornica Wulfenia Bulli 4 cordata 4 ‘teh ieocabhe 5 Floughtoniana 4 major § Wyomingensts 5 Xylaria clavicularis 19 gomphus 23 involuta 23 Portoricensis 18 scopariformis 23 sagittifolium 2 Xylorthiza venusta 8 ADDENDA Ribes in California 63-103 Ribes Greeneanum III occidentale 133 Ribes Parishil 134 subvestitum 133 He NY BRST pictemnos re — ine a Wen is Dy oo ical Garden Libra OI i ] it 3 9185 002 xf