DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW PLANTS. 



By J. N. Rose. 



RantinCTiIus cooleyae Vasey & Rose sp. nov. Glabrous, with a slcnfler caudex 

 bearing many long fibrous roots; scape, 1- or 2-flowered, naked or bearing a 

 small leaf near the middle, in flower about the length of the leaves, in fruit 

 20 to 25 cm. higb; radical leaves numerous, on petioles 3.6 to 10 cm. long, or- 

 bicular, 2.5 to 4 cm. in diameter, deeply 3-parted, each division again 3-to5- 

 parted; the lobes oblong, obtuse, granular-tipped; sepals 5, oblong, obtuse, 

 deciduous, glabrous; petals 10, glabrous, yellow, oblong, obtuse, tapering at 

 the base into a slender claw; stamens numerous; carpels very numerous, in a 

 close head, strongly compressed laterally, 1- to 3-nerved on each side, glabrous, 

 Romewbat utricular; style short, reflexed; ovule 1, erect. 



Collected in fruit by Miss Grace E. Cooley, near the top of a snow-covered 

 ridge, among loose rock, near Juneau, Alaska, August 6, 1891, and collected in 

 flower by Frederick Funston, near the top of a bare mountain (1,000 meters 

 high) of the St. Elias Alps, above Disenchantment Bay, Alaska, August 10, 1892. 

 Mr. Funston says the plant is very rare, and he was able to obtain only five speci- 

 mens. There is some doubt as to what section of the genus it belongs to, but 

 probably it should be referred to the Crymodes neur B.glaoialis. It resembles 

 Tery much B. hyatriculua of central California, especially in the outline of its 

 leaves and carpels, but differs particularly in the lobing of the leaves and the 

 smoothness of the carpels. This new species is named in honor of Miss Grace E. 

 Cooley, instructor in botany at Wellesley College, who collected the plant on 

 an excursion to Alaska. 



Explanation or Plate xxn.—l, fruiting specimen collected by Miss Cooley; 2, flower- 

 ing apecimen collected by Mr. Funston, both natural size ; a, carpel ; b, section of the same, 

 showing the seed and its attachment; e, sepal; d, petal; e, lobe of a leaf from 2. Figuresaandft 

 are enlarged 7 diameters, e and d 3 diameters, ande 2 diameters. 



Spbseralcea orcuttii Rose sp. nov. Perennial (T), 60 to 90 cm. high, with dense, 

 stellate pubescence throughout; leaves thickish, ovate, entire or somewhat 3- 

 lobed, with slightly cordate or truncate base, obtuse; flowers small, in close, 

 glomerate clusters, on short or long racemes; calyx 4 mm. long, with ovate 

 lobes ; petals 8 mm. long, brick-red ; styles clavate, thickened ; carpels 12, reni- 

 form, strongly reticulated except the minute terminal portion, 2 mm. in diam- 

 eter, l-seeded. 



Collected near Canso Creek, in the Colorado Desert, California, November 1, 

 1890, by C. R. Orcutt (No. 2210). This species, although referred to Sphwralcea, 

 can hardly be kept out of Malveopsis. The carpel is more like that of the latter 

 genus than of any other known species, and yet very similar to those of S. coul- 

 teri and S. californica. 



Llgustlcum macounii Coult. & Rose sp. no.v. Plant low, acauloscent, 10 to 12,5 

 cm. high, glabrous; leaves pinnate, small, 12 to 20 mm. long, on petioles 

 12 to 30 mm, long ; pinnae 5, oblong or oval, 3- to 5-lobed or cleft ; inrolucre few- 



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