94 ERYTHEA. 



a margined petiole, above pinnately parted nearly to the midrib into 

 5 or 7 equal, oblong, entire, raucronulate lobes ; flowers on slender 

 peduncles, soon deflexed, and burying the capsule more or less in 

 the soil; lobes of the calyx triangular-acuminate, ciliate, the 

 appendages nearly as long as the lobes ; corolla very small (4-6 

 mm. in diameter), little exceeding the calyx lobes, white, its append- 

 ages minute, consisting of narrow vertical folds, ciliate with 1-3 

 short hairs; ovules 4; mature capsule 4-6 mm. in diameter, much 

 exceeding the calyx lobes; seeds 4, irregularly triangular, rounded 

 on the back, obscurely pitted, and with a conspicuous caruncle. 



In rich soil, in meadows at Bear Valley, 6,500 ft, alt., in the San 

 Bernardino Mountains, June, 1895, 3782 Parish, and other 

 distributions. In some respects approaching N. Menziesii, H. & A., 

 from which it differs in its condensed and prostrate habit, much 

 smaller flowers, less deeply-parted style, and notably in the number 

 and shape of the much larger seed. 



PoLEMONiUM ccERULEUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 162. A single specimen 

 collected at Bear Valley in the San Bernardino Mts., July, 1899, 

 H. M. Hall. This is far the most southern station yet reported 

 for this plant in California. 



Gilia (Leptodactylon) Hallii. Stems woody below, set with 

 opposite fascicle-like buds made up of short acerose scales, the 

 upper buds producing slender, puberulent flowering branches, 

 10-12 cm. long; their leaves opposite, palraately 3-parted to the 

 base, the divisions acicular, the central one (7-8 mm.) thrice longer 

 than the laterals; flowers few, clustered at the summits of the 

 branches; calyx hyaline-membrauaceous with green ribs which are 

 prolonged into unequal acerose teeth ; corolla " white," or ochro- 

 leucous, becoming yellow in drying, funnel form ; tube 6 mm. long, 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx, the throat only moderately enlarged ; 

 lobes obovate, 5-6 mm. long; anthers oblong (2 mm.), inserted on 

 the throat, nearly sessile ; styles only 2 mm. long, tlie slender 

 stigma branches 4 mm, long ; ovules reniform, 4 in each cell. 



Coyote Canon, at 5,000 ft. alt., on the desert slope of El Toro 

 Mt., May, 1899, H. M. Hall /This plant has technical characters 

 of both Leptodactylon and Siphonella, but by its habit and aspect 



