486 Eastwoop: New SPECIES OF WESTERN PLANTS 
tip, the others are invariably straight: perigonium with stipe-like 
base, tubular funnelform, with yellowish green glabrous tube and 
six obtuse, villous divisions about half as long as the tube, pale 
pink with darker midnerve, oblong, mucronate: anthers pale pink, 
exserted from the throat of the perigonium: akenes with mem- 
branous coat, margined or slightly winged on the angles. 
This is near C. pungens Benth., from which it differs in pubes- 
cence, involucres, spines, thick involute cartilaginous instead of 
membranous margins, corolla of different shape with narrower and 
more deeply cut lobes. 
The figure of the type of C. pungens as shown in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. 17: pl. 19 (2 a, 6, c, d, e), has been taken for comparison. 
This differs from C. pungens as it is understood by the authors of 
the present in having all the teeth of the involucre tipped with 
straight instead of uncinate bristles. 
Chorizanthe villosa grows on the sand-dunes at Bodega Point, 
Sonoma County, California, and blooms in the summer. 
v Spraguea eximia 
Winter annual or biennial from a tap-root, with a rosulate 
cluster of leaves from the one or more crowns, glabrous through- 
out: radical leaves oblanceolate, tapering to margined petioles as 
long as the blades, together 1-3 cm., mucronate, entire or with 1 
or 2 teeth on the sides; cauline leaves spatulate, bract-like or 
foliaceous, scattered, from 2 mm. to 1.5 cm. long: flowering stems 
reddish, 3-10 cm. or perhaps more in height, the scorpioid spikes 
in simple or compound umbels, sometimes with a second umbel 
below the main one; peduncles filiform, clothed with minute, 
white membranous bractlets, the involucre of larger, somewhat 
thicker bracts; flowers crowded in short spikes at the ends of 
the peduncles, pediceis 1 mm. long: calyx rose-colored, mem- 
branous, broadly orbicular, 5 mm. or a little more in width, about 
4 mm. in length, emarginate at apex, reniform at base, thickened 
near the apex, with a greenish or reddish spot: petals 4, white, 
membranous, elliptical, acute at apex, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 
the white tips surpassing the calyx at or after anthesis: stamens 
3, not quite as long as the petals, the anthers white, elliptical : 
ovary sessile, ovate, white-membranous, showing the seeds within : 
style surpassing the petals ; stigma 2-lobed : seeds about six, orbic- © 
ular, papillate. 
The short stamens separate this from S. wmbellata Gray, to 
which it is allied, though differing also in other characters. 
