90 LEAFLETS. 
upon the original plant with hirsute sepals, and excluding what 
I had guessed to be a glabrous form of it. 
M. FALLAX. Slender glabrous glaucous annual freely br an- 
ched above the base, 1 to 2 feet high: leaves unknown; flowers 
Subsessile and fruiting spikes long and lax : flowers small, the 
spreading or recurved tips of the sepals very long, equalling 
or even exceeding the small dark-red white-edged petals: only 
the upper pair of stamens equalling the sepals, their filaments 
united to summit, their anthers very small: pods very narrow, 
compressed but slightly torulose, 14 inches long, curved down- 
wards on very short spreading pedicels: seeds oval, little 
compressed, marginless. 
Hills above Napa Valley near St. Helena, collected by the 
writer in July, 1891, and then believed to be a form of the pre- 
ceding ; but the few flowers remaining on one specimen which 
was atthe time given to the U. S. Herb. show clear specific 
characters, as I now perceive. The other specimens taken were 
copiously fruiting, but otherwise naked. 
M. viminevus. Size and habit of the last, equally glabrous 
and glaucous: lower leaves narrowly oblanceolate; upper lance- 
linear, those of the branches narrowly linear, all entire: flowers 
more showy in long loose spikes: calyx with comparatively 
short and white-petaloid tips greatly exceeded by the rather 
ample white petals; pods unknown. 
Near Lakeport, Cal., 3 May, 1903, C. F. Baker, the specimens 
distributed by him under n. 3059 as Streptanthus vimtneus 
Greene, n.sp. Here described from two sheets of specimens in 
my own herbarium. 
Laothoe, 
Part III of Rafinesque’s Flora Telluriana must be among the 
more scarce of that author’s publications; and it is one which I 
do not recall having seen until recently. Consulting that part 
of the brochure in which he discusses certain gentians, I read 
on beyond those pages, and came at length to a paragraph in 
