494 Eastwoop: New SprEcIES OF WESTERN PLANTS 
This is related to Scutellaria angustifolia Pursh, under which it 
has probably been included. It has much smaller flowers than 
that and an altogether different appearance. 
The type was collected by Mrs. C. C. Bruce at Big Chico, 
Butte County, California, May, 1897, being No. 1835 of her 
collection. It is named in her honor and that of her mother, Mrs. 
R. M. Austin. With it I would also put no. 221 of the col- 
lection of H. E. Brown from Pitt River, Shasta County, also a 
specimen collected by Mrs. A. L. Coombes at Baird in the same 
county and one collected by the author between Shasta and Red- 
ding. There is another specimen, collected by the author on the 
road between Lewiston and Weaverville, Trinity County, which is 
doubtfully placed here. It has leaves longer and narrower and 
flowers not so spreading at the throat. 
~ Fraxinus macropetala 
Shrub, with ash-colored bark on the branchlets: leaves 3-5- 
foliolate, the terminal leaflet much larger than the lateral, obovate 
to broadly oval and orbicular, tapering at apex and base, decur- 
rent on the petiolule, sometimes obtuse and truncate, entire oF 
crenate, serrulate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1~ almost 2 cm. wide, the 
petiolule about half as long; lateral leaflets about one half the 
size of the terminal, obovate to lanceolate, the petiolules much 
shorter; the minute dark glands numerous, the pellucid ones few ; 
surface glabrous or the petioles and rachis slightly scaly-puberu- 
lent: flowers perfect, in panicles terminating the branchlets ; pan 
icles erect in flower, pendulous in fruit, the peduncles and pedicels 
filiform, the latter shorter than the fully developed flowers : calyx 
with attenuate divisions unequal, equalling or longer than the cam- 
panulate tube, together 1.5 to 2 mm.: corolla green at first, be- 
coming white, 12 mm. long, the four linear, involute divisions three 
times as long as the narrow tube: stamens 2, inserted at the base 
of tube, not reaching to the top, the brown linear-oblong anthers 
almost twice as long as the filaments, 2 mm.: ovary tipped by # 
short thick style: fruit linear-oblong, 2-2.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, 
the wing extending half way along the sides of the seed, about 4° 
long as or slightly longer than the kite-shaped seed, emarginate 
at apex, often tipped by the short persistent style. 
This comes nearest to F. cuspidata Torr., but differs in the 
shape of the leaves and the longer fruit which is contracted some” 
what at base. The calyx is different and the divisions of the 
corolla are much longer. : 
