Eastwoop: New Species oF WESTERN PLANTS 487 
It was collected by Miss Agnes Bowman at Sulphur Banks, 
Lake County, California, May 18, 1901. It is a most beautiful 
plant, well worthy of cultivation. 
» Silene grandis 
Stems many, knotted at the nodes, generally simple, 3-6 dm. 
high, growing in clumps from a thick, white, fleshy rootstock : 
radical leaves oblong-spatulate, acute, entire, somewhat fleshy, 
glandular and velvety-pubescent, with rather indistinct veins ; 
blade 5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, tapering to a margined petiole 
equalling the blade in length and 3 mm. wide, sheathing the stem ; 
cauline leaves sessile by a connate-clasping base, oval to ovate, 
acute, 3-5 cm. long, 2—4 cm. wide, the chief veins distinct : 
flowers fascicled in the upper axils on peduncles as long as the 
calyx, very glandular-hairy: calyx inflated, campanulate, 12 mm. 
long, the 10 green ribs alternating with as many whitish furrows ; 
divisions 5, broad, triangular, with membranous and ciliate mar- 
gins: corolla greenish white, the petals with claws exserted from 
the calyx, 13 mm. long, tapering from a broad, membranously 
margined, spatulate upper part, 4 mm. wide, to a base 0.5 mm. 
wide ; blade with two deeply parted, obtusely laciniate divisions, 
6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, with a tooth-like, narrow Jobe almost 
at right angles and varying in length from 1-3 mm. ; appendages 
in the throat fan-shaped, crenate, 3 mm. long and about as wide: 
stamens in two sets, the longer equalling the corolla-appendages, 
the shorter a little surpassing the styles ; anthers brown ; filaments 
filiform: ovary, petals and stamens on a disk surmounted by a 
yellow ring: styles 8 mm. long, glabrous except the glandular- 
hairy stigmatic surface: ovary glabrous. 
This interesting but unattractive Sz/ene grows on the sides of 
the promontory at Bodega Point, Sonoma County, California, 
looking towards the south and west. On the south side it is twice 
as tall as on the side where it endures the force of the west wind. 
It is also more abundant and in every way more luxuriant. It is 
probably quite local but may be found elsewhere on the coast. It 
is in bloom almost throughout the spring and summer. 
v Eschscholtzia dolichocarpa 
Annual, leaves mostly radical, the flowers terminating long, 
Subscapose peduncles, glabrous throughout except for a pecu- 
_liar pubescence of tentacle-like hairs on the bases of stems 
and leaves : leaves pinnately dissected with the divisions narrow, 
