128 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



is more to be expected in Southern Oregon is sometimes col- 

 lected in sandy places along the Willamette River near Eugene. 

 I have seen three specimens in two succesive years. Piper 

 and Bettie's Flora of the Northzvest Coast says of it: "In 

 moist places, western Oregon, in the Umpqua Valley ; perhaps 

 not in our limits." I consider these of my collections to be 

 merely strays, yet there is no real reason why they might not 

 be permanent about Eugene, for those that I saw were flour- 

 ishing. 



One fall while walking on the north shore of the Willa- 

 mette nearly a mile and a half from Eugene, I came upon 

 a shrubby plant among a scattered growth of buck-brush 

 (Ceanothiis cuneatus) which I had never seen before. The 

 dried capsules at once suggested the figwort family. The 

 following summer I got the plant in bloom and was enabled 

 to determine it. It was one of the pale yellow flowered 

 Pentstemons (P. deiistus). It was decidedly out of its local- 

 ity, for Howell gives the distribution : "On gravelly banks in 

 the dry interior region, Brit. Columbia to California, Nevada 

 and Montana." The first part of this, "gravely banks" aptly 

 describes the habitat at Eugene. But this illustration only goes 

 to show how little is known regarding distribution in a place 

 like Oregon where botanists are indeed few. 



