Novitates Boreali-Americanae. VII. 323 
" 64. Vancouveria parvifolia Greene, spec. nov. 
Planta 3—4 dm alta, folis membranaceis, autumno decidentibus, 
floribus eorum V, hexandrae magnitudine aequantibus. Foliola terminalia 
circiter 2 em longa, vix 2 cm lata, supra medium subtriloba, basi sub- 
cordata, lateralia 1,5 cm longa, oblique cordato-ovalia, apice obtusissima, 
omnia superne laetevirentia, glabra, inferne glauca et pilis albicantibus 
sat crebre obsita. Flores subpanieulati, circiter 15 mm longi, lutescentes. 
Ovarium anguste ovatum creberrime glandulosum. 
Vicinity of Humboldt Bay, northern California, Harley P. 
Chandler, May, 1910, his no. 1162 as in U. S. Herb., distributed for 
V. hexandra, but most distinct from those Oregonian plants which are 
often collected, and always taken to be Hookers Epimedium hexandrum. 
Nevertheless it is not impossible that this Humboldt Bay plant may have 
been collected by Menzies; and if so it will be the very original of the 
type species of the genus, in which ‘cose the very large-leaved white- 
flówered one so common on the coasts of Oregon, Washington and 
British Columbia, and made known long ago by Seouler and by Douglas, 
Will rank as a species still awaiting a name and description. 
/ 65. Dodecatheon atratum Greene, spec. nov. 
Rhizoma brevissimum, radices multas carnosas emittens. Folia 
pauca, late ovata vel ovalia, obtusissima, integra, carnosula, glabra, 
1—3 em longa, basi in petiolum latum 1--2 cm longum desinentia. 
Scapus modice robustus, 1— 2 dm altus, purpurascens, apicem versus, 
una cum pedicellis, sparse minutimque glandulosis, glandulis plerisque 
breviter 'stipitatis ; umbella 5—7-flora; bracteae ovato-lanceolatae acutfus- 
culae 3—6 mm longae; calycis usque ad medium partiti laciniae late 
lanceolatae; corollae saturate purpureae lobi oblongi obtusiusculi; tubi 
recurvati media pars annulo albido latiusculo cireumducta; androecium 
omnino atropurpureum; tubus 2—2!/, mm longus, interdum antheras 
longitudine subaequans; antherae plerumque 3'/, mm longae, obtusius- 
eulae, Capsula ignota. 
Open ls at Gate, Washington, collected 15 April, 1912, by 
A. E. Foster, and. not otherwise known. Allied to D. Henderson very 
plainly by the characters of root and foliage, but a plant of less than 
half the dimensions of that, and with flowers of the darkest color known 
in the genus, The whole androecium seems fairly black. It is also one 
of the few species which have low grassy plains for their habitat; in 
this particular recalling D. patulum which is found nowhere but on the 
low plains of the interior of middle California. 
“ 66. Dodecatheon albidum Greene. spec. nov. 
Planta parva, tenuis, corolla alba. Radices multae, rca 
carnosulae; folia 3—6, saepissime 4, membranacea, adscendentia, ovalia vel 
oblanceolata, obtusa, plerumque integerrima, interdum. er 
in petiolum latiusculum plus magisve elongatum desinentia; scapus tenuis, 
1—3-florus, 71—12 em altus; involueri bracteae lanceolatae, caudato-acu- 
minatae; calyeis ad 2/, partiti laciniae A corollae 
