BULLETIN 



OF THE 



rORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. IX-1 New York, October, 1882. [No. \0» 



New Western Plants- 



By Edward Lee Greene. 



LiNUM (Hesperoltnon) Clevelandi. — Slender and diffusely ^ 

 paniculate, ^-i foot high, glaucous and, to the naked eye, smooth, 

 but under a lens minutely scabrous-puberulent ; leaves alternate, 

 linear-lanceolate, ;^-6 lines long ; stipular glands wanting ; pedicels 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves, 6-10 lines long ; sepals ovate, 

 acute, smooth and entire, only a line long ; petals yellow, 2-toothed 

 at base, not much exceeding the sepals ; styles 3 ; capsule obtuse, 

 little exceeding the calyx. 



J 



Collected in the vicinity of AIIen*s Springs, Lake County, Cab, 



.e, 1882, by Mr. D. Cleveland. 



A very well-marked species, to come in between Z. micrantJmm 



and Z. adenophylhim ; differing from the former in its yellow flowers, 

 and from the latter by the absence of glands. V 



Astragalus Clevelandi. — Sparingly and minutely appressed 



pubescent, or at length nearly glabrous, stems rather slender, a foot 

 or more high, from a perennial root; leaflets 15-19, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, less than a half inch long ; peduncles longer than the leaves, 

 and bearing slender racemes 3-6 inches long ; flowers hardly more 

 than 2 lines long ; the calyx rather villous, its subulate teeth about ^ 

 equalling the tube ; corollas white or cream-colored ; pod unknown. 



."*i. .-i' -w-t* -w-^ii 'w -^ ^-^ --* • T >i^ ^ 4 



Collected in 

 Mr. D. Cleveland. 



June, 1882, by 



A species whose singularly long racemes of small whitish flowers 

 give it a very striking likeness to Melilotus alha. 



Saxifraga malvaefolia. — Near S. Parryi, but much larger ; 

 scape a foot or two high, minutely and rather sparingly glandular- 

 puberulent; leaves rounded-cordate, obscurely lobed and closely 

 toothed, an inch or more in diameter, on petioles somewhat shorter, 

 hairy on the veins beneath, and appearing with the flowers ; flowers 

 few and rather large, in a cymose panicle; calyx-teeth triangular, 

 equalling, or even somewhat longer than the short tube, which is 

 truncate at base, and not conspicuously nerved ; petals white, obo- 

 vate-oblong, inserted by short claws nearly in the sinuses of the 

 calyx ; filaments subulate, borne a little lower down ; carpels united 

 to near the abruptly and widely diverging summits ; style stout, 

 shorter than the beak; root woody-fibrous, with no trace o( corm. 



Known only by a single specimen, said to have been brought 

 from Santa Rosa Island, off the coast of California. 



Though closely allied to S- Farryi, Torr., it is very distinct, hav- 

 ing no corm or bulb, and sending up its leaves and scapes simulta- 

 neously. Its calyx is much broader and shorter than in that species, 

 and it is a much larger plant; moreover,its leaves are of thicker texture, 

 scarcely lobed at all, resembling those of Malva rotundifolia. 



