BOTAMCAL GAZETTE. 



and an erect fruit; the leaves are usually marked with a few small 

 glandular semi-transparent teeth in notches. 



Eriogonum ALPiNUM,n.sp.— Few heads from a very stout caudex ; 

 the whole plant (except the flowers) densely white tomentose; leaves 

 nearly orbicular, i inch wide, attenuate at base into a petiole of the 

 sime length ; scape (about 4 inches high) with a verticil of 3 or 4 lan- 

 ceolate, foliaceous bracts above its middle ; umbels solitary, involu- 

 crum broadly campanulate (3 lines wide) with 9 to 12 short, erect 

 teeth ; flowers very numerous, attenuate at base, glabrous in and out- 

 side,yellow, 2]/ 2 lines long. — On Scotts Mountain, Northern California, 

 together with Campanula scabnlla (see page 237) on stony ridges about 

 the timber line, G. E. The large single yellow heads look very 

 much like those of some alpine composite ; the plant is a counterpart 

 to the glabrous rose-flowered E. pirolcefolium, Hook., found on the 

 opposite Mount Shasta in similar situations. 



Juncus canaliculatus, n. sp. — A coarse plant of the section 

 Graminei, 3 feet or more high from a cespitose rootstock with stout 

 terete steins and numerous concave or channeled leaves 2 or 3 of them 

 with auricled sheaths on the stem ; heads 3 to 8-flowered on slen- 

 der branches in a decompound rather contracted panicle ; flowers 

 light greenish-red over 2 lines long, sepals of nearly equal length with 

 membranaceous margins, inner acute, outer ones acuminate ; sta- 

 mens 6, two-thirds the length of the sepals, long linear red-brown 

 anthers longer than the filaments ; ovary attenuated into a slender 

 style bearing very long exsert stigmas, 1 celled ; fruit and seed un- 

 known. — San Bernardino Mountains at 4,000 feet alt S. B. and W. 

 F. Parish. Abundantly distinguished from the allied J. marginatus, 

 witn which it has in common the brown-red anthers, otherwise rare in 

 the genus, by the stouter habit, the long coarse deeply channeled 

 leaves, larger flowers, acute sepals, acuminate ovary, long style and 

 stigmas. — G Engelmann. 



Woodsia Plummeree, Tl. sp.— Root stock short ; stalks 1-2 

 inches long stramineous, chaffy; fronds bright green, 4-8 inches long, 

 lanceolate-elliptical, membranaceous, beset with gland tipped leaves, 

 pinnate, or nearly bi-pinnate ; pinniB approximate except the lowest, 

 very short peduncled, lanceolate, attenuate to an obtuse point, the 

 lowest cuneate ovate, middle ones longer, of the same width at base, 

 all pinnately parted ; segments long-oblong, elliptical, crenately tooth- 

 ed with about five teeth on a side, dentate at apex, ciliate with the 

 peculiar glandular hairs of the species ; veins forking, free, mostly 

 alternate ; sori terminal on the veinlets nearer the margin than the 

 midrib; spore cases pearly gray with brown rings ; spores amber col- 

 ored round-ovate, the cell-wall deeply wrinkled ; indusium minute 

 lacerate fimbriate, ciliate with glandular hairs 



This lovely fern is closely allied to forms of W. obtusa but differs 

 from that species at several points. The fronds are bright green, al- 

 most diamond-shaped. The pinnae are not remote except the lowest 

 but approximate, not obtuse but long-attenuate from a broad base. 



