1915] Unll: Xcir and Xoteivortlnj Californian Plnnfis 167 



Innoris snbdilatatis; nntheris omnibus oaomlois. linoari-obloii<iis. versa- 

 tilibus erec'tis: ovario 6 iiiiu. lonyu stipein cra.ssum includenti ; stylo 

 1.5 mm. longo. 



Castle Lake, Siskiyou County, California, at an altitude of IS.lo m., .luly 



27, 1911, I. J. Condit (Herb. Univ. Calif, no. 160439), type; duplicate type in 

 Herb. Calif. Polytechnic School, San Luis Obispo. 



This species is of the section Triteleia and is most closely related 

 to B. peduncvlaris Wats, although its slender habit and small flowers 

 give it a decidedly different aspect. It differs from tliat species and 

 from B. la.ra Wats, in the iiiiidi slioi-tcr jx'dieels, higher insertion of 

 the stamens, and slender. sh()rt-sti])ed ovary. The same characters 

 will probably serve to distinguisli our proposed species from Triteleia 

 angustifiora Heller, which differs also in its indigo-l)lne flowers. 



Polygala acanthoclada Gray 



Proc. Am. Acad., xi, 73 (1876). 

 This shrub has been collected for the first time in California by 

 the original collector of the species, Mr. T. S. Brandegee, who found 

 it in -July. 1912. at Barnwell, in the Mohave Dasert of eastern San 

 Bernardino County. The plants are decidedly shrubby, densely ciner- 

 eous pubescent, and with leaves up to 13 mm. long. The capsules are 

 broadly elliptic, emarginate, and 5 mm. long. 



Coelopleurum maritimum C. & R. 



Bot. Gaz., xiii, 145 (1888). 



A very broad-leaved and narrow-fruited form of this was sent 

 to the University herbarium from Loleta, Humboldt County, August 

 17, 1908, by Mr. Joint Mattliiesen, with the report that it was poisoning 

 cattle. The genus has not been reported heretofore from south of 

 Astoria. Oregon. The description of the species now needs amplification 

 to include this form, the differentiating characters of whicli are: 

 rootstocl« thick, erect, chambered as in Cicuia (and as in perhaps all 

 species of Coelopleurum) ; leaflets up to 12 cm. in length by 6 to 10 cm. 

 broad ; fruit oblong, even when fully mature only 4 mm. wide by 8 mm. 

 long, the lateral wings scarcely wider that the others. 



To some botanists these characters might seem sufficiently imi)()rtant 

 to constitute a new species. However, tracings and fruits from the 

 type specimens in the Coulter Herbarium, supplied through the court- 

 esy of Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, indicate that the leaflets are slightly 



