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female flowers as in that species, commonly lias from 4 to 8. In 8. vermiculatus the 

 body of the fruit is 4 to 5 mm. long, 2.5 to 3.5 mm. broad, and the wing 7 to 13 mm. 

 by 5 to 8 mm. in diameter. 



"Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1994, Death Valley 

 Expedition; collected June 2, 1891, in a valley near Thorpe's quartz-mill, Nye 

 Comity, Nevada, by Vernon Bailey. 



"The plant was first seen by Mr. Bailey at Cloverdale, Esmeralda County, Nevada, in 

 1890, and recognized by him as different from S. vermiculatus. In company with Dr. 

 Merriam he afterwards found it in a valley in Nye County, Nevada, southeast by east 

 from Gold Mountain, near Thorpe's quartz mill, and later in Fish Lake Valley (No. 

 2011), westward from the other localities, on the California State line. There is in 

 the National Herbarium a specimen of the same plant collected by J. G. Lemmon in 

 1875, probably in western Nevada. The species is therefore confined, so far as known, 

 to the counties of Esmeralda and Nye, in Nevada, and Mono and Inyo, in California. 

 I take pleasure in associating Mr. Bailey's name with this shrub, both as a mark of 

 hisoarnest and invaluable labors in the field of natural history and as a reminder 

 of a warm friendship established among the vicissitudes of a desert exploration." 



Some plants of Sarcobatus seen by the writer in winter along an old bank of Ash 

 Meadows Creek, about a mile west of Watkin's ranch and very near the State line, 

 probably belongs to this species. 



Sarcobatus vermiculatus (Hook.) Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 128 (1838), under Batis; 

 Torr. in Emory, Rep. 149 (1848). Type locality, "on the barren grounds of the 

 Columbia, and particularly near salt marshes." 



This shrub occurred abundantly about the shores of Owens Lake, and at several 

 points in the valley northward and southward. Along the route pursued by Dr. 

 Merriam and Mr. Bailey in Nevada it occurred abundantly in Fish Lake Valley, Sar- 

 cobatus Flat, Oasis Valley, Pahrauagat Valley, Meadow Creek Valley, Desert Valley, 

 and along Shoal Creek, in Utah. 



FOLYGONACEiE. 



Eriogonum angulosum Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 406 (1837). Typelocality, 

 " California. " 



Near Crystal Springs, Coso Mountains (Nos. 909), and at the mouth of Tehachapi 

 Canon (Nos. 1133, 1134). In No. 1134 the flowers are ochroleucous instead of pink, 

 and the three outer lobes of the calyx are inflated so as to appear very thick. 



Eriogonum baileyi Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. x. 348 (1875). Type localities, 

 "in North-western Nevada," " in Owen's Valley [California]," and " in Arizona or 

 Southern Utah." 



On the east slope of Walker Pass (No. 1019), and on the road between Mohave 

 and Willow Spring (No. 1137). 



Eriogonum brachyanthum sp..nov. 



Plant annual, 8 to 16 cm. high, diffusely branching from a point 1 to 4 cm. above 

 the ground ; stem (except for a distance of a few millimeters above the base) and 

 branches glabrous and green ; leaves all basal, lanate throughout, like the base of the 

 stem, the orbicular blades 0.5 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, on a petiole slightly longer; 

 bracts at the nodes ternate, brown, glabrous except the filiate margins; involucres 

 tubular-campanulate, 1.5 mm. long, ciliate in the throat, glabrous >yithout ; perianth 

 1 to 1.2 mm. long, greenish yellow, the outer divisions paudnriform, the inner 

 slightly shorter, linear-oblong, all glabrous. 



Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1013 of the Death 

 Valley Expedition, collected June 21, 1891, a few miles north of Indian Wells, Inyo 

 -X'jumty, California, by Frederick V. Coville. 



