122 ERYTHEA. 



tardy darkening of the fruit, which, according to Mr. Cusick, remains 

 scarlet after the seeds have become dark. From A. pallida it is 

 distinguished bj its more serrate leaves, larger flowers and reddish 

 bark. 



Castilleia Dixonii. Stems many from a branching caudex, 

 much depressed, decumbent or slightly ascending, mostly 2 or 3 cm. 

 long, somewhat angled, glabrous below, pilose in the inflorescence : 

 leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, entire, very thick and leathery, 

 3-nerved, smooth or slightly puberulent, or sometimes scabrous on 

 the margins, 1.5 to 5 cm. long: bracts red, pilose, mostly entire, or 

 with 2 or 4 narrow divisions near the tip: calyx 2.5 cm. long, 

 mostly exceeding the bracts, subequally cleft before and behind^ 

 the divisions lanceolate, acute: corolla about 3 cm. long, the 

 exserted galea slightly shorter than the tube : lip 2 mm. or less long, 

 with three oblong-ovate teeth. — Abundant on the seashore, in 

 gravelly or sandy soil, usually just above high- water mark, Quinaitfc 

 Indian Agency, Washington, July 17, 1898, collected by Roland B. 

 Dixon, during an anthropological expedition on the northwest coast. 

 Formerly collected at Gray's Harbor, Puget Sound, by the "Wilkes 

 Exploring Expedition. Nearest related to C. miniata, Dougl., but 

 differing strikingly in its depressed habit and very leathery leaves. 

 The galea, too, is shorter than is general in that plant. 



Gray Herbarium, 

 Harvard University. 



