60 Short Artecles. [ZOE 
Specimens were sent to the Gray Herbarium for comparison 
with specimens there. Edwin B. Uline, who kindly made the 
comparison and looked up the description in books not available 
to the author, writes as follows: ‘“There is only one specimen of 
Cnicus giganteus Willd. in our herbarium and that, too, was col- 
lected in Algiers. It has heads slightly larger than the speci- 
men you sent, but otherwise it is, in all particulars, identical. 
It also conforms well to descriptions and plates.”’ 
The country where this was found is a land where there are 
many vineyards, cared for by Italians, chiefly. Doubtless the 
plant has been introduced through these people. Mr. Davis has 
destroyed the two plants and has, perhaps, obliterated the species 
from this continent, but the probabilities are that it is to be found 
elsewhere and this note may serve to identify it to the next 
, collector. ALICE EASTWOOD. 
A NEw SPECIES OF CHORIZANTHE FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA. 
Chorizanthe inequalis. Slender, diffuse; branches numer- 
ous from the base, cymose, procumbent, more or less elongated, 
thinly pubescent; leaves basal, oblanceolate, obtuse, tapering to 
a narrow petiole, pubescent with scattered hairs; bracts at the 
nodes two in number, slender, somewhat broader in the middle, 
acicular; involucres solitary or crowded; tube 3 mm, Jong, 
grooved; limb deeply cleft, divisions unequal; larger recurved, 
divergent, awned; alternate minute; flower single, 2 mm. long, 
pink and glabrous, in shape campanulate, short pedicellate, tube 
included, limb exserted; segments unequal, outer round obovate, 
obtuse or truncate, inner oblong, much shorter, both entire and 
erose; stamens 9; anthers oval; akene short. San Telmo, Baja 
California, May 31, 1893. Collected by Mr. T. S. Brandegee. 
The species is nearest C. sfaticotdes Bth. and C. flava, Brandg. 
From the first it is distinguished by the wide spreading lobes of 
the involucre and the pubescence of the leaves, which is not 
tomentose; from the second by its short, broad flower and un- 
equal perianth lobes. Susan G. STOKEs. 
