492 Eastwoop: New SpEciES OF WESTERN PLANTS 
glabrous foliage, and few-flowered racemes. It seems nearest 
to L. palustris L. 
¥ Clarkia parviflora 
Stems clothed with white, smooth, shining, shreddy epidermis, 
simple or with upwardly spreading branches, 4-8 dm. high: 
leaves linear, tapering to a nerved petiole, acute, entire, puberu- 
lent, the longest 7 cm. long, 3 mm. wide: flower and buds nod- 
ding, the latter acuminate at each end and scattered: calyx-tube 
short, rather narrow, with the divisions united to one side by the 
tips: petals crimson or magenta, narrowly cuneate, bilobed at 
apex, 6 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, with clustered hairs at base : 
stamens with yellow anthers, all eight fertile, in two sets, the 
longer equalling the petals: style surpassing the stamens, with 
long, reflexed stigma-lobes: ovary sessile, curved downwards at 
first but becoming erect, quadrangular, acuminate with the pointed 
part one half to one third the entire length : seeds not ripe. 
This approaches C. Xantiana, but has much smaller flowers, 
nodding instead of erect. It was collected at Kernville, Kern 
County, California, by Mr. T. S. Brandegee, May 13 (the year is 
not given). 
¥ Scutellaria Nevadensis 
Rootstocks moniliform: stems numerous from the base, pur- 
plish, cinereous with fine, short, curled, closely appressed pubes- 
cence, from less than 1 to 2 dm. high, slender, leafy and florifer- 
ous from almost the first leaves ; internodes shorter or longer than 
the leaves ; leaves ovate to elliptical, the cuneate base tapering to 
a petiole from 0.5~5 mm. long, obtuse, truncate or emarginate at . 
apex, entire, 3-5-nerved from the base, the lowest 1-2 cm. long, 
diminishing upwards, 5-10 mm. wide: peduncles slender, about 
as long as the calyx: calyx large and conspicuous on account of 
the broad, wing-like crest, which surpasses the truncate entire 
tube, enlarging from 3 mm. in flower to 7 mm. in fruit: corolla 
purple, about 2 cm. long, the tube straight, moderately enlarging 
at the throat, with the two lips almost equal ; the upper rounded, 
obtuse, the two lobes at the sides reflexed; the lower broader, 
crenately lobed, sparingly hairy within: filaments curved at apex ; 
anthers ciliate, with emarginate apex and cordate base: nutlets 
covered with tentacle-like tubercles, turbinate. 
This seems nearest to S. nana Gray, which it resembles in the 
pubescence and rootstocks, and more or less in the floral organs. 
It is different in every way ; shape of leaves, size and shape of flower, 
stamens and seeds. 
