546 Piper: West AMERICAN 
A species probably nearest related to L. floribunda. The 
united marginal prickles and scabrous foliage easily distinguish it. 
- 16. Lappula Californica 
Echinospermum Californicum Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 225. 
1882 (in part). 
Perennial, erect, leafy, green, 30-80 cm. high: pubescence fine 
and sparse, soft below, almost hispidulous above in fruiting spect- 
mens : lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, the petioles 
nearly as long as the blades ; middle leaves oblong-lanceolate, ses- 
sile by broad bases ; upper leaves lanceolate or even ovate, sessile 
or partly clasping, mostly acute : panicle in fruit open, the branches 
about 6-flowered : corolla white, its tube barely exceeding the calyx; 
appendage broader than long, puberulent, the protuberance small : 
nutlets granulate-muriculate on both faces ; dorsal face and margin 
bearing 20-30 glochidiate subulate separate prickles, as long 45 
the diameter of the nutlets, with shorter ones intermixed; scat 
central, large, ovate-triangular. 
The following specimens are referred here. 
CALIFORNIA: Mt. Shasta, 6000 ft. alt., 23 August 1881, 
Pringle (type); Mt. Shasta, 5000 ft. alt., 1862, Brewer, 1416 ; 
Sisson, July 1892, Brandegee ; near Webber Lake, 1875, Lem- 
mon, 1204; Lake Tahoe, Lemmon, 205. Both the Lemmon 
specimens have the prickles of the fruit purple, and the nutlets 
apparently smooth on the ventral side ; Prattville, Plumas county, 
2 April 1892, Brandegee ; Prattville, Plumas county, June 1878, 
R. M. Austin. 
Orecon: Near “ Three Sisters,” 5 August 1881, Hendersov 
Black Butte, Crook county, 19 July 1901, Cusick, 2680. 
/17. Lappula velutina sp. nov. 
Perennial (or perhaps biennial), tall and stout, 30-90 ¢™ be 
clothed throughout with a dense velvety pubescence : fons? 
cauline and radical leaves spatulate-oblanceolate, acutish, 8-10 cM. 
long ; cauline numerous, mostly sessile by broad bases, — : 
linear or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, gradually reduced mab 
2~8 cm. long: inflorescence open, the branches 5-10 
calyx densely pubescent, the oblong lobes obtuse: corolla blue oF 
sometimes pink, its tube 5 mm. long, much exceeding We * be 
the limb 10-12 mm. broad ; appendages very large and weet 
uous, one third as long as the corolla lobes, the deeply cordate cre" 
short-pilose, equalled in length by the oblong protuberanc® 
