Piper : New and noteworthy Northwestern Plants 45 



has larger blue flowers, nearly smooth obcordate formices, and 

 the nutlets smooth on the back. 



The following specimens of the new species have been examined 

 all from Washington: Ellensburg,/^r, no. 2676, May, 1897 (type); 

 WhiUd, no. 325 ; Elmer, no. 385 ; Wenatchee, Whited, June, 1896; 

 Peshastin, Sandberg & Leiberg, no. 595 ; Junction Crab and Wil- 

 son Creek, Sandberg & Leiberg, no. 277 ; Douglas County, Spill- 

 man, 2J May, 1896; Clemens Mountain, Yakima County, Hen- 

 derson, in 1892 ; "E. Washington, " Vasey, no. 419. 



'Mimulus breviflorus 



Annual, the slender stems simple, or more commonly branched 

 from the base, erect, 4-20 cm. high, minutely puberulent through- 

 out, or nearly glabrous above : leaves lanceolate, rarely oblanceo- 

 late or ovate, acute, or inconspicuously few-toothed, narrowed at 

 base into a short petiole, or subsessile, usually shorter than the 

 internodes, gradually reduced above, mostly about I cm. long : 

 flowers solitary in the axils on slender pedicels which about equal 

 the leaves: calyx narrowly campanulate, somewhat constricted 

 above, 2-3 mm. long in flower, 6-8 mm. in fruit : the short acute 

 triangular teeth nearly equal : corolla pale yellow, tubular, 4-5 

 mm. long, the lobes short and rounded : stigma scarcely protrud- 

 ing beyond the calyx. 



M Pulsift 



o- 



ously petioled leaves, and longer and more viscid puberulence. M. 

 Pulsiferae ranges from northern California to Klikitat Co., Wash. 

 Piett, Siiksdojf. The new species seems confined to the Columbia 

 plateau. It has been collected as follows : 



Washington : Pullman, Piper, no. 1858, 3 July, 1894 (type) ; 

 Piper, no. 1826, 15 June, 1894; Wawawai, Elmer, no. 774; W. Klik- 

 itat Co., Suksdorf, no. 203, Sept., 1883 ; Suksdorf, no. 485, 2 July, 

 l88 5 ; Ellensburg, Whited, no. 652; Waitsburg, Homer, no. 592; 



Mts., Piper, no. 2440 ; Spokane, Pip 



J 



J 



& MacDougal, 



Oregon : Hood River. Henderson 



Barrett, in 1884; E. Oregon River, Cusick, no. 1195, in 1884. 



This seems 



•pieuus 



Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1: 116. 1885; not however Gray's 



species. 



