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SHELDON: New SPECIES FROM THE PaciFic Coast 309 
Co., Calif,, A. Eastwood; San Bernardino, Calif., Parish Bros. 
no. 61., 
“>Nemophila mucronata Eastwood sp. nov. 
Stems decumbent, 1-1.5 dm. long, branched from the base, 
flat, winged, glabrous, with internodes 2~3 cm. long: leaves 3-5- 
lobed, with blades about as long as the broad petioles, together 
I-—2.5 cm.; lobes oblong, mucronate, upper surface bright green, 
clothed with fine hairs which are papillate at base, lower surface 
paler, margin inclined to be revolute; petioles broadening, with 
clasping ciliate base: flowers axillary: peduncles longer than 
the leaves, glabrous, winged, curved downwards in fruit: calyx 
with appendages half the size of the triangular divisions, both with 
appressed hairs on both sides, ciliate, mucronate: corolla tubular- 
campanulate, apparently white, the rounded divisions 2.25 mm. 
broad, 4 mm. deep: filaments ribbon-like, narrowing upwards, 
one half as long as the corolla, inserted above the base: anthers 
dark brown (?), mucronate: corolla-appendages consisting of two 
small ciliate folds on each side of the filaments : capsule suborbicu- 
lar, 5 mm, in diameter: seeds (immature) with prominent caruncle. 
This is nearest JV. mzcrantha Eastwood, from which it differs 
chiefly in the mucronate lobes of the leaves, calyx divisions and 
anthers, as well as a slight difference in the form of the corolla 
appendages. Collected at Chenowith Creek, Wasco Co., Oregon, 
by Mr. Edmund P. Sheldon, April 25, 1902, being no. 10204 of 
his collection, 
Aster mucronatus Sheldon sp. nov. 
Erect, g-12 dm. high : stem minutely pubescent above, glabrous ° 
below: leaves linear, sessile, acute or acuminate with mucronate 
somewhat calloused tips, smooth beneath, scabrous with short 
appressed hairs above, becoming glabrate, entire or remotely den- 
ticulate with small appressed teeth, margins scabrous; those of 
the stem 2-8 cm. long, those of lateral branches 1-2 cm. long: 
inflorescence loosely subpaniculate, the lateral branches often 
leafy : heads 2 cm. broad; involucral bracts spatulate, foliaceous, 
with scarious base and margins, slightly glandular, with acumi- 
nate mucronate tips, especially the outer and broader ones; rays 
linear strap-shaped, slightly erose at the apex : pappus I cm. long: 
_ achene pubescent. 
Near to Aster hesperius Gray, a species of Arizona and New 
Mexico. 
This plant was found in abundance around the edge of upland 
meadows near Mt. Scott, Multnomah Co., Oregon, Aug.—Oct. 
1902, no, I1171. 
