Eastwoop: SOME NEW SPECIES OF CALIFORNIAN PLants 177 
Cycladenia venusta 
Stems low, 1-1.5 dm. high, several from a horizontal woody 
rootstock, glaucous and glabrous throughout except the flowers : 
lowest leaves scale-like ; the others broadly ovate to orbicular, 
2-6 cm. in diameter, coriaceous, prominently nerved ; apex ob- 
tuse, acute, or abruptly acuminate ; base broadly cordate or cune- 
ate; margin entire or slightly undulate; petioles broad, flat, 
longer than the blades on the lower leaves, shorter on the upper, 
connate-clasping: flowers in axillary corymbs, 3~7-flowered ; 
peduncles rather stout, generally shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 
less than half as thick, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, 1.5—3 cm. 
long ; bracts ovate-acuminate, glabrous externally, with a few 
Scattered hairs within and on the margins, about 5 mm. long: di- 
visions of the calyx extending almost to the base, linear-lanceo- 
late, 5 mm. long, I mm. broad, clothed on both sides with scat- 
tered, spreading hairs: corolla funnel-form, with tube slightly 
shorter than the calyx, limb almost 2 cm. long, lobed about half 
Way with five equal orbicular-oblong lobes, 7 mm. in diameter, 
bright rose-color, hairy externally, especially on the tube, some- 
What pubescent within and viscid: stamens with short, hairy fila- 
ments, inserted at the top of the tube on the ribs ; anthers sagit- 
tate with the apex and tips cuspidate: stigma as in the genus: 
follicles glabrous and glaucous, immature, 4 cm. long. 
This beautiful species was first collected by the writer on the 
Summit of Santa Lucia Peak, in Monterey county, California, June 
9, 1893. It was collected by Mr. R. A. Plaskett on Cone Peak 
in the same range of mountains in fruit in 1898. | 
It differs from Cycladenia humilis Benth. in the shape of the 
leaves, much larger flowers, corolla with shorter tube and more 
open-campanulate border, and the pubescence of the flowers. 
Type in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. 
Potentilla Hickmani 
_ Perennial from a woody tap-root ; the caudex densely clothed 
with the brown, dry stipules and petioles ; stems low, decumbent, 
8-15 cm. high, sparingly clothed with appressed hairs: leaves 
Mostly radical, with generally six pairs of rather distant, petiolulate 
leaflets ; these cuneate, digitately 3—-4-cleft or divided, with linear 
or lanceolate divisions, 2-8 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, veiny, gla- 
Fous or with a few scattered hairs on the upper surface, more 
densely appressed-hairy on the lower; stipules attached to the 
_ Petiole, the free portion linear-acuminate, about 5 mm. long ; cau- 
