114 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



1868, 402 and 403; Flagstaff, MacDougal, 1891, 313), 

 and Calif ornia (Downieville, Bigelow, 1853-4; White Mts., 

 Coville & Funston, 1891, 1797; Susanville, Brandegee, 

 July 1, 1892; Kern Co., Palmer, 1888, 156a and 156b 

 in part. 



It is evident that Nuttall wrote the name cresia, on the 

 labels of the specimens preserved in the Gray and Torrey 

 herbaria, but the name published by Torrey and Gray is 

 here adopted. The only reason for preferring this to the 

 name racemosum which is now in almost universal use, is 

 its prior position on the page on which both of the syn- 

 onyms of the species are published. Reflexed fruit occurs 

 on some of no. 1249 Jones. 



Gr. pumilum S. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad, xviii. 1883, 

 193. — A span or two high, simple or paniculately few 

 branched toward the base, the branches quickly erect, 

 minutely spreading puberulent to mostly glabrous ; leaves 

 lanceolate, very acute, rather large, longer than the inter- 

 nodes, the lower spreading ; flowers very small, the petals 

 about 1 mm. long; stamens and stigma as in the last; 

 capsules 1 to 1.5 mm. wide, strongly flattened contrary to 

 the septum, nearly sessile, not at all torulose, erect; seeds 

 numerous, very oblique in the cells, smooth, smaller, about 

 .3 X .8 mm. (varying from .25 to .34 X .71 to .97 mm.) 

 Washington to southern California. 



Specimens examined from Washington (Yakima region, 

 Brandegee; Henderson, Aug. 3, 1892, 2465; Falcon Val- 



ley, &c, Suksdorf , 1880, 376, June 29 and Aug. 31, 1881 ; 

 Klickitat River, Suksdorf, 1885, 82), Oregon (Klamath 

 Valley, Cronkhite, 1864; Siskiyou Mts., Howell, July 19, 

 1887, 1141), Nevada (Reno, Brandegee, Sept. 1887), and 

 California (Fresno Co., Engelmann, Sept. 13, 1880; Kel- 

 logg, 1870; Kern Co., Palmer, 1888, 156b in part; Sierra 

 Co., Lemmon, 1874 in part, and Parry and Lemmon, 1876, 

 131 ; Headwaters of Sacramento, Pringle, Sept. 1, 1882 ; 

 San Bernardino, Parish, 1892, 2372, and Parry, May 1876 ; 

 Trinity River, Rattan, June, 1883 ; Lake Co., Torrey, 1865, 



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