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tion is incomplete, the flowers not having been collected. 

 The original diagnosis is appended. 



Stem £— 1 ft. high, soft hairy throughout: root leaves 5—9 inches loug; 

 on lower stem 4 — S, and successively shortening or set close to the stem at 

 the top; blade egg-shaped, mainly .1 — I as long as the leaf-stem and short 

 wedge-form at base, slightly toothed on the margin. 



Stipular appendages very unequal (alike in specimens from Shasta by H. 

 Edwards, from Kern County by S Brannan, Jr., and from Siskiyou County 

 by Elisha Brook-;); larger f inch long smaller .{ — h inch, oblong to heartform, 

 nearly sharp pointed, toothed or entire, leafy. 



Tilamentous appendages of the anthers very narrow, thread-like (not at all 

 widened or wing-heeled as in the allied V. glabella, types of which we have 

 from the same section); flowers none (ate in the season) probably yellow; 

 fruit on very short stems about \ the leaves. 



Unfortunately all our specimens for the last eight or ten years have been 

 imperfect, even this last one has not the root; perennial? 



V. monfana, Kellogg, 1. c. i. 56. 

 Y. lobata, Benth. A low form. 



V. Sequoiensis, Kellogg, 1. c. ii. 185. 

 V. lobata, Benth. 



Polygala cornuta, Kellogg, 1. c. i. 62. 

 P. Californica, Nutt. 



S'dene Dorrii, Kellogg, 1. c. iii. 44. 

 S. Mexziesii, Hook. 



Alshie palvstre, Kellogg, 1. c. iii. 61. 

 Arenaria palustris, Watson. 



Spraguea pantculata, Kellogg, 1. c. ii. 187. Obtained 

 anew last year from the original locality. Very different in 

 habit from S. Umbellata, the stems branching paniculatelv 

 beginning near the ground: sepals larger, drawn into 

 folds by the thick greenish midrib: seeds reniform, in the 

 original species they are short-oblong. 



Lewisia alba, Kellogg, 1. c. ii. 115. 

 L. rediviva, Pursh. 



