Eastwoop : SoME NEW SPECIES OF CALIFORNIAN PLants 79 
species, the divisions of the calyx are equally cleft and much nar- 
rower, the corolla is longer with the divisions more nearly equal 
in length, and the seeds are more membranous and more deeply 
pitted. I have compared it with specimens of O. pilosus collected 
near Lake Tahoe and Summit Station on the C. P. R. R. This is 
in the same region as the original collection, Washoe county, 
Nevada. 
This species came from Warner Mountains, Oregon and was 
collected by Mrs. Bruce, July, 1898 (no, 2240). 
Type in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. 
Spraguea pulchella 
Apparently annual, low, with slender decumbent stems, gla- 
brous throughout: radical leaves spatulate on long margined 
petioles, longer than the blades, together 5-20 mm., purplish, en- 
tire, obtuse; cauline leaves of two kinds, one like the radical 
leaves but smaller, the others bract-like: flowers in scorpioid 
Subcapitate spikes, closely imbricated, at the ends of slender 
divaricately spreading branches ; pedicels short ; bractlets broadly 
Ovate-cordate, rose-color, membranous: ‘sepals somewhat un- 
€qual, orbicular, emarginate at apex, reniform at base, rose-color 
with darker or somewhat greenish stripe down the middle, 3 mm, 
in diameter : petals 4, oblong to linear, acute, thin, veiny, conniving 
over the ovary after anthesis, slightly over 2 mm. long: filaments 
about as long as the petals, filiform: anthers elliptical, .5 mm. 
long, yellow, not exserted: style long and slender, the two-cleft 
apex Surpassing the corolla: ovary with 1-2 ovules on slender 
uniculi: seeds the same number, showing through the diapha- 
Nous walls of the orbicular capsule, brown when ripe. 
This comes nearest to Calyptridium monospermum Greene. It 
differs in the shape of the sepals and petals, in having invariably 
Not more than two ovules, while C. monospermum has from one to 
several, ripening 1 or 2 seeds. The panicle is more open and the 
we plant more slender and delicate. My specimens were com- 
Pared with the duplicate of the type, no. 2135 of the Death Valley 
Pedition, collected in Big Cottonwood Meadows by F. W. Koch- 
It was kindly loaned me by F. V. Coville, Chief of the Division of 
Botany, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
a Species was collected by Mr. J. W. Congdon near Pea 
a dge Toad, Mariposa county, California, April 19, 1901. 
eS = in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. 
