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NEW PLANTS FROM MIDDLE CALIFORNIA. VV 
sepals all deep blue-purple, each with a very prominent though 
narrow apiculation: ovaries canescently villous. 
On Coyote Creek, 30 July ; Baker’s n. 4392. The aspect of 
the species suggests affinity for D. decorum and its kindred; but 
the root is of another structure entirely. 
BISTORTA SCABERULA. ‘Tall and with large foliage but the 
root unknown: basal leaves upright, a foot long, the oblong 
blade little longer than the stoutish petiole, mostly obtuse at 
base, more than an inch wide, thinnish, neither revolute nor 
crisped, of a vivid green above, the veins there inconspicuous, 
beneath paler and glaucescent, the midvein broad, neither 
flattened nor striate, the veins and veinlets, especially the latter 
muriculate-scaberulous: stem stoutish, 2 feet high, glabrous, 
striate, the sheaths 13 inches long, bearing each a sessile acute 
leaf about as long: spikes barely in flower and ovoid, scarcely 3 
inch long. 
Hackett’s Meadows, at 8600 feet, Culbertson, 18 July, 1904, 
distributed by Mr. Baker under n. 4384. The muriculation of 
the reticulate veinlets is a peculiar character. 
ERIOGONUM JUNCEUM. Suffrutescent, the woody and densely 
leafy branches only afew inches high, loosely cespitose, white- 
tomentose as are also the small obovate or obovate-elliptic leaves: 
slender peduncles 5 to 9 inches high, perfectly glabrous, of a 
vivid green and reedy-looking, usually but once forked, bearing 
theinvolucres } to 2 inch apart, these sessile, narrow-campanulate, 
glabrous, obtusely toothed: perianths white, the segments with 
red-brown midvein, all obovate and very obtuse. 
Kern River Cañon, 2 Aug. 1904, Culbertson, being n. 4396 of 
©. F. Baker’s distribution. Related to Æ. Wrightii, distin- 
guished by slender glabrous and reedy peduncles, glabrous invo- 
lucres, and smaller perianths with relatively broad segments. 
A specimen of what appears the same is in U. 8. Herb. from 
Mt. San Jacinto, 11 Aug. 1897, by H. M. Hall, named Æ. 
Wrightii. 
SWERTIA CovILLEI. Stout-stemmed, rather few-flowered, 6 to 
16 inches high; basal leaves in the largest plants 6 inches long, 
thin and flaccid, not indistinctly 3-nerved, the oblong-lanceolate 
