With these brief references as a prehminary I pass to my 

 notes on the specimens it has l)een my ])rivileg-e to examine. 

 These have been, in part, communicated by Dr. .\. Davidson. 

 Mr. S. B. Parish, and Mr. F. W. Peirson. Some are from the 

 Herbarium of the Southern Cahfornia Academy of Sciences, 

 and some are of my own collection. 



I give first of all the label on the specimen under considera- 

 tion, in quotations, then a more or less complete analysis of the 

 plant and then such comments as suggest themselves. 1 begin 

 with the olants from Mr. Peirson's herbarium. 

 \, "Zauscliiicria Californica microph\Ua. Shadow Lake, north 

 of Devil's Post Pile, Sierra Nevada, about 9000 ft. Aug. 1914." 



Sparsely villous with soft white hairs : leaves lanceolate. 

 15-30 mm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, lower short-petioled, upper ses- 

 sile : calvx-tube narrowly funnelform above the globose base, 

 about 20 mm. long: sepals sharply triangular, about 12 mm. 

 long: petals about 15 mm. long: stamens scarcely exserted : style 

 long-exserted : color of entire flower brilliant scarlet. 



"Cataiina I'.each, July 1, 1907. "" 



Gray tomentose ; leaves linear. 15-20 mm. long, 2-4 mm. 

 wide, much fascicled, tipped with a dark brown mucro ; flowers 

 not opened ; calyx short-conic above the globose base, then nar- 

 rowlv funnelform, sparsely villous. 



This is almost identical with a specimen in Herb. Davidson. 



collected by P. j. Yates on Santa Cruz Island and labelled Z. 



cana Greene. The Santa Cruz specimen has slightly broader 



, leaves and a little heavier tomentum. Imt I should unhesitatingly 



assign them both to the same species. 



" ZauscJincria Californica luicrof^hylla. Kewen Pake. Pasa- 

 dena." 



Herbage sparsel)' villous with soft white hairs; leaves nar- 

 rowlv lanceolate. 15-35 mm. long. 4-8 mm. wide, fascicled in 

 the axils ; calyx-tube dull red. veined with scarlet, narrowly 

 funnelform above a short-conic base ; petals scarcely exceeding 

 the sepals ; stamens not exserted : style long-exserted. 



This plant is of the feather-veined group and more closely 

 approaches Z. lafofilia than Z. Californica imcrophylla. 

 ^ "Zaiischncria Californica latifolia." A sheet of three speci- 



mens. 



(a) -TJttle Kern. July 11. 1908." 



Herbage cjuite hirsute, with short, rather stitf hairs; leaves 

 broadlv lanceolate, 18-30 mm. long. 7-15 mm. wide; calyx-tube 

 cylindrical about 10 mm. above the base, then fimnelform. 

 entire length 22-2? mm., dull pink veined with scarlet; petals 

 dark red, veined with a color so deep as to appear almost black 

 in the dried specimen. 



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