488 Eastwoop: New SprEciES OF WESTERN PLANTS 
petioles twice as long as the blades, together 8 cm.: peduncles 
stout, some 3 dm. tall: torus with membranous inner rim, the 
outer very narrow, revolute: buds acuminate, 2 cm. long, covered 
by a thin calyx: corolla yellow, the cuneate-obovate petals 
3.5 cm. wide, 4 cm. long: pod stout, 1-1.5 dm. long, strongly 
ribbed like the peduncle of which it seems a prolongation: seeds 
obovoid or rhomboid. 
This was collected by Mr. R. A. Plaskett at Willow Creek, 
near Point Gorda in the Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County, 
California, April 8, 1898, being no. 84 of his collection. 
It is readily distinguished from allied species by the large 
flowers and remarkable pods and peduncles. 
’ Eschscholtzia urceolata 
Annual, many-stemmed, 1-2 dm. high, glaucous and glabrous 
except fora scattered pubescence of peculiar tentacle-like hairs, 
generally on the young growth, the lower part of the stems and 
leaves and the buds: leaves shorter than the scapose peduncles, 
with the slender petiole generally surpassing the pinnately tri- 
sected blade, together 3-8 cm. long, the ultimate divisions linear, 
obtuse or rarely mucronate, 2-5 mm. long: earliest flowers on 
long stout, ribbed, scapose peduncles, 1-1.5 dm. long, the later 
ones on leafy stems : buds drooping : calyx thin, ovate, about 1.5 
_cm. long, obtuse, sometimes glabrous : corolla yellow, the cuneate- 
obovate petals 2.5 cm. long, and almost as wide at the top: 
stamens about 1 cm. long, the filaments somewhat shorter than 
the narrowly linear anthers : styles 4, varying in length, minutely 
papillate : pod stout, ribbed, acuminate, about 6 cm. long: recep- 
tacle urceolate, 7 mm. long, the outer rim lacking, the inner white, 
membranous, erect. 
This beautiful species was collected by the author on the white 
hills separating the valley of the Cuyama from the Carisa Plains 
on the boundary between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obisp° 
Counties, California, May 2, 1806. 
It is related to E. hypecoides Benth., but is distinctly differ- 
entiated from that and other allied species by the peculiar shape 
of the torus. 
“ Arabis McDonaldiana 
Stems many, 5 mm. to 2 cm. high, from a branched caudex, 
forming mats, slender, glabrous : leaves rosulate at base, spatulate, 
repandly toothed, the few teeth sometimes bristle-tipped ; blades 
5-10 mm. long on margined petioles as long or longer, broaden- 
