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above, sparse delicate glandular hairs on the veins beneath and a similar 

 hair tipping each serration; calyx limb obscurely lobed; berries solitary, 

 depressed-globose, smooth, bright red, 6-8 mm. in diameter, the pedicels 

 stout, somewhat clavate, about 5 mm. long; seeds smooth, somewhat 

 trigonous. 



Steve Peak, Josephine County, Oregon, on sandy slopes and ridges 

 5,200 feet altitude, August 24, 1917, M. W. Gorman No. 4180. "Fruit 

 red of excellent flavor both raw and cooked." This interesting species 

 apparently bears a similar relation to T r . macrophyllum (Hook.) Piper 

 [V. membranaceum Dough] as does V. parvifolium Smith to V. ovali- 

 folium Smith. 



Mertensia bella, n. sp. 



Perennial, tuberous; stems very slender, glabrous below, very sparsely 

 appressed pubescent above, simple below the inflorescence, 40 cm. high, 

 solitary (?) from a dark globose tuber about 2 cm. in diameter; leaves 

 ovate or the upper lance-ovate, acute, green, very thin, minutely ap- 

 pressed-hispidulous above, glabrous beneath, the blade 2.5-3.5 cm. long, 

 all with petioles, those of the lower leaves 1-2 cm. long; peduncles 6-10 cm. 

 long, one in each upper axil ; flowers in cymes, often subumbellate, some 

 solitary in the forks of the branches ; pedicels slender, appressed-hispidu- 

 lous, 6-10 mm. long, some at least pendent in fruit; calyx-lobes oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, appressed pubernlent, 2-3 mm. long; corolla blue, open 

 campanulate, 5-6 mm. long, the acutish lobes about one-third as long as 

 the tube ; stamens half as long as the corolla, the slender filaments as 

 long as the anthers; style included, half as long as the corolla; nutlets 

 whitish, rugose. 



Horse Pasture Mountain, 10 miles southwest of McKenzie Bridge, Lane 

 County, Oregon, July 2, 1914, M. E. Peck No. 5811. 



A remarkably distinct species not closely related to any other described 

 and constituting a new section to the genus. 



Castilleja indecora, n. sp. 



Perennial apparently from rootstocks; stems slender, erect or usually 

 decumbent at base, sparsely pilose, 10-15 cm. high ; leaves all entire, 

 lanceolate, sessile, broadest at base, attenuate-acuminate, sparsely pubes- 

 cent on both sides, 2-3 cm. long; bracts broader, mostly yellowish at 

 tip, each with a pair of narrow linear lobes; spikes dense, 2-5 cm. long, 

 yellowish; calyx pilose, 12-16 mm. long, more deeply cleft before than 

 behind, the two lobes shallowly emarginate at tip; corolla yellowish, 

 minutely puberulent, at length 2 cm. long; galea 5-6 mm. long, straight 

 except the slightly hooked apiculate tip; barely extruded ; lip about 2 

 mm. long, the teeth somewhat fleshy, oblong-ovate, acutish ; anthers 

 sparsely pilose; stigma capitate, entire, extruded; capsule brown, ellip- 

 soidal, apiculate; seeds with loose cellular reticulated coat. 



Wallowa Mts., Wallowa County, Oregon, 8,000 feet altitude, 10 miles 

 north of Cornucopia, September 8, 1915, M. E. Peck No. 4282. 



