398 Piper : Noteworthy Northwestern Plants 



ing black in drying, .5-1 cm. long, attenuate at base into a short 

 petiole : flowers 3—6 in a rather close corymb : bracts of the 

 peduncles ovate or orbicular, entire, obtuse, retuse or acute, about 

 4 pairs : calyx lobes distinct, equal, ovate, acute, ciliate, glandular, 

 about 7 mm. long : corolla 3 cm. long, bright rose crimson, naked 

 in the throat, decidedly ventricose, somewhat bilabiate, the lobes 

 oblong, obtuse, rather short : fertile anthers barely extruded, 

 white-woolly : sterile filament short, glabrpus. 



Dry rocky cliffs, Mt. Rainier, 7500 ft. alt, Piper, no. 2086 

 (type); Goat Mts., Wash., 3000-6000 ft. alt.,- Allen, no. 130. 



This plant is very different from P. Newberryi Gray in its de- 

 pressed habit, thicker leaves and larger ventricose corolla. I 

 should not hesitate to call it a species were it not for the fact that 

 on Mt Adams occurs a very similar plant, but with the tubular 

 corolla of P. Newberryi, and thus forming a transition to it. 



* Castilleia rustica sp. nov. 



Stems erect, apparently from a decumbent woody base, simple, 

 or more commonly with erect branches, minutely white pubescent 

 throughout and somewhat glandular above : leaves narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, rather few, sessile, mostly entire : bracts 3-5 -cleft, only 

 the lower exceeding the flowers, greenish : spike dense, 2-8 cm. 

 long: calyx 10 mm. long, short-villous, equally cleft before and 

 behind, the segments somewhat shorter than the tube, each divided 

 halfway into similar triangular acuminate teeth : corolla greenish- 

 yellow, 1 5 mm. long, glandular-puberulent above, the blunt galea 

 more than half as long as the tube ; lower lip very small, one- 

 fourth as long as the galea, saccately 3-lobed, the free portions 

 acute, one third as long as the saccate enlargements : stigma capi- 

 tate, protruding : stamens included. 



Rocks of the Wallowa River, northeastern Oregon, 6000 ft. 

 alt, W. C. Cusick, collected August 7, 1899. A homely species 

 with some affinity to C. Lemmoni Gray. 



* Castilleia, rubida sp. nov. 



Decumbent, 2-10 cm. high, the numerous simple stems from 

 a stout woody caudex which is continued into a long tap-root : 

 stems and leaves pubescent with short white crisp hairs and also 

 minutely and densely glandular, especially in -the inflorescence : 

 leaves sessile, linear or lanceolate, entire or more frequently 3 -cleft 

 or 3-parted, 1-2 cm. long ; bracts similar to the upper leaves, 3-7- 

 cleft, mostly tinged with dull purple : flowers in a short dense 



