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Peduncles pubescent, two to three inches in length (or twice or 

 thrice the length of the petiole). 



Bractioles toothed on one side and scabrous at the base, opposite 

 or alternate and separate, mostly situate above the middle. 



Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, somewhat produced and emarginate 

 at base, three-nerved, point tipped with a gland, pubescent. 



Flowers jellow, large (at length the two upper petals become 

 brownish, especially on the back, which is glabrous) ; lateral petals 

 bearded ; three lower petals brownish at the base, with a few striate 

 radiating veins ; spur short ; claws rather long. 



Style gradually attenuated to the pubescent base, compressed, 

 laterally bearded, rostrate, foramen-margined ; capsule ovate-acute, 

 scabrous near the sutures of the valves. 



Abounds in the redwood forests (^Sequoia sempervirens') of Sierra 

 Nevada mountains, Nevada City. In exposed localities it becomes 

 more dwarfed and pubescent. At an elevation of 3,000 feet. 



Closely aUied to V. lobata, but that species is described as 

 " glabrous ;" the leaves also are scabrous as well as pubescent ; 

 the stipules appear to differ ; the bracts arc also scabrous on the 

 marginal base, and with a lateral stipuloid tooth on one side ; the 

 sepals also are rather linear-lanceolate and very acuminate ; besides 

 many other points. 



Dr. Kellogg read the following description of a Spraguea brought 

 by Mr. C. H. Dorr, from Nevada Territory. 



Spraguea panieulata. — (Kellogg.) Fig. 56. 



Stems decumbent or prostrate, leafy paniculate, radiating (8 to 

 10 from the crown of minute fibrous radicals.) 



Leaves mosly radical, in a rosulate cluster, about as long as the 

 stems, (or relatively very large) spatulate, obtuse or emarginate, 

 obscurely three-nerved, very minutely villous, lamina thick and suc- 

 culent. Flowers somewhat secund scorpoid, and with the sepals 

 pedicillate, petals oblong, stamens exsert, anthers oblong, pink. 

 Growing in a dense ball or cluster prostrate upon the ground, and 

 seldom three inches in height ; at length melting into an excretory 

 mucilaginous, watery mass. Found in a ravine extending to the 

 west, about six miles from Virginia City, Nevada Territory, at an 

 altitude of 3,000 feet. Flowers in May and June. 



