36 The Ottawa Naturalist. [May 



consisting of a round-obovate or almost orbicular blade and 

 equally short claw : fruit not seen. 



Of this species, so well marked in the cut of its foliage and 

 in the character of its petals, the type specimens are Funston's 

 No. 14, from Yakutat Bay, Alaska, 1892, and one from some 

 unknown station also in Alaska, obtained by my triend Mr. A. 

 W. Gorman. There are other Alaskan specimens of Ac/cea very 

 different from these, and perhaps representing A. arguta ; these, 

 however, from southerly stations. 



AcT^A Californica. a. arguta, Greene, Fl. Fr. 310 ; Man. 

 Bay. Reg. 6, not Nutt. This ^c/<fl of the California Coast Range, 

 and which in the north passes over to the Sierra Nevada, is very 

 distinct from A. arguta, not only by its rhombic-ovate acute petals 

 (commonly 3 or 4), but by its peculiarly broad and almost obtuse 

 leaflets, which are also not much incised. They are, indeed, 

 abruptly acute, but as to general outline, quite rounded at both 

 ends. In this species the stems are often several from the same 

 root. 



Delphinium Chilliwacense. Stems solitary, slender, 1 to 2 

 feet high from a not deeply seated rounded tuberiform small root, 

 or from a small condensed cluster of several such; the whole plant 

 sparsely leafy and with one or more short and very lax few flow- 

 ered racemes ; lower part of stem somewhat retrorsely villous- 

 hirsute with white hairs, this indument more sparse and not 

 retrorse as continued up to the summit of the petioles, the leaf- 

 blades more pubescent with somewhat appressed short hairs : 

 sepals rather narrow, deep-blue ; petals white ; spur long and 

 straight, acuminate : follicles short and stout, moderately 

 divergent, appressed-pubescent even in maturity. 



Dry rocky banks, Chilliwack Valley, B.C., ig June, 19(^1, J. 

 M. Macoun, No. 33,573. Not a showy species, but very well 

 marked in habit, and in the character of the root. It is related to 

 D. hicolor, though not very intimately. 



Cerastium subulatum. Perennial, the sub-erect flowering 

 stems 6 to 10 inches high, ending in a peduncled and few-flowered 

 cyme, this in age almost equalled by the upright very leafy sterile 



