“96 LEAFLETS. 
Range: all the internodes short and whole plant copiously leafy 
with a capillary-dissected foliage quite exceeding the internodes 
and not collapsing ; peduncles very stout, of half the diameter of 
the stout branches that bear them, about an inch long, falcate- 
curved in fruit; petals of the small flowers remarkably long 
oblong; carpels small, glabrous, sharply keeled and rugulose, 
tipped with a slender-subulate style and forming a depressed- 
globose head of about 12 to 20 in each. 
Near Lakeport, Lake Co.,9 May, 1902, C. F. Baker: distrib- 
uted under n. 3062. Remarkable for the stoutness of the whole 
plant and the prominence of the long thick curved peduncles. 
Mr. Baker reports that the plants grow singly, not forming 
masses, in the beds of streams. 
Two New Sophiae. 
SoPHIA OBTUSA. Evidently large and freely branching, but 
root and main stem not seen: branches, foliage and calyx canes- 
cently stellate-tomentulose: larger leaves simply pinnatifid, their 
7 to 11 lobes oblong, obtuse, commonly entire, now and then 
crenate-serrate ; racemes sessile, short and loose in fruit: pale- 
yellow petals minute, hardly equalling the sepals: pods very 
slender, straight, more than 4 inch long, torulose, acute, on 
ascending pedicels of less than + inch and almost filiform. 
In the Black Range, southern New Mexico, 1904, O. B. 
Metcalfe, to be distributed under n. 1074. 
S. SERRATA. Bright-green and appearing glabrous, but very 
sparingly and minutely pubescent under a lens: stem-leaves not 
seen, those of the branches cut into narrow and remote pinne 
all very acute and serrate-incised: racemes sessile, short and 
dense: sepals glabrous, thin, yellowish, much surpassed by the 
yellow petals: pods only 4 lines Jong, on filiform pedicels of 4 
inch or more, commonly incurved, acute, very slender, some- 
what torulose. 
Same region as the above, and by the same collector ; his 2 
1069. 
