192 I^BAFLETS. 



my herbarium ; but the plant was evidently communicated to 

 Dr. Gray at the time, for there is a mention made of it by Mr. 

 Watson in the Calif ornian Geological Survey Botany, vol. ii, 

 p. 425 ; but this Californian plant is not there described. It 

 had not been botanically looked at by either Gray or Watson. 

 The description which I thus refer to is that of the Oregonian 

 T. grandis, which Watson proposed to restore, after Gray 

 (Proc. Am. Acad, viii, p. 372) had reduced it. This Cali- 

 fornian plant does not at all answer to T. grandis, even as to 

 foliage, much less as to its achenes. In T. grandis these are 

 not at all suborbicular, but broad and rounded as to the upper 

 part only, thence tapering to the base. 



Trautvettkria sanicui.ifoi.ia. Plant barely 2 feet high, 

 the stem bearing 3 or 4 ample long-stalked leaves, no truly 

 basal one obvious; leaves of orbicular circumscription, but 

 deeply 5-parted and without basal sinus, the lower lobes over- 

 lapping, the segments narrowly cuneate-obovate, coarsely 

 serrate-toothed above the middle, all of very thin texture, 

 without prominent veins, but the upper face conspicuously 

 fine-reticulate throughout, both faces glabrous, the lower of a 

 deeper and a glossy green : fruit unknown. 



Species known only as collected by Mr. Heller, about lyake 

 Waha, Nez Perces Co., Idaho, in June, 1896. The leaves 

 have exactly the cut of those of typical Sanicula. Their 

 copious development up and down the stem is another char- 

 acter, and the beautifully reticulate surface is another. 



Trautvetteria media. Plant of the largest, the radical 

 leaf a foot in diameter, often less, cleft almost to the base, the 



segments 



them- 



selves 3-cleft and very coarsely and irregularly serrate-toothed : 

 achenes small, tipped with a rather long style that is closely 

 circinate, the space next the ventral suture with one or two 

 short nerves. 



A New Mexican species of the upper Gila River in Soccorro 

 Co., growing at 9000 feet in the mountains; the specimens 



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