128 ERYTHEA. 



A NEW CALIFORNIA PARNASSIA. 



By C. V. Piper. 



\/ Parnassia cirrata. Erect, 3-4 dm, high, glabrous throughout; 

 radical leaves ovate, obtuse, palmately 5-veined, 1-2 cm. long, 

 cuneate at base but not at all reniform ; petioles 4—5 cm. long with 

 a few fimbriae on the margin of the dilated base ; cauline leaf 

 very small, about 6 mm. long, lance-ovate, obtuse, sessile: flower 

 2-2.5 cm. in diameter: sepals lanceolate, obtuse, 7 mm. long: 

 petals oblong-obovate, 1 cm. long, the lower half margined with 

 fimbriae longer than the width of the petal : staminodia 5, as 

 broad as the petals, 2 mm. long, cleft half way into about 12 equal, 

 filiform, gland-tipped appendages : capsule ovoid, 1 cm. long. 



Mt. San Bernardino, S. B. and W. F. Parish, No. 156 in 1879 

 (type). Upper Sacramento River, growing with Darlingtonia, 

 Breiver, No. 1445. 



Nearest P. fiynhriata Banks, with which it is confused in the 

 Botany of California. The new species is easily distinguished 

 from P. fimbriata by its ovate not reniform leaves, small bract, 

 longer fimbriae, and especially by the staminodia, which are nearly 

 those of P. palustris, excepting that the appendages are subequal. 

 In P. fimbriata the staminodia have but 5 or 6 short blunt append- 

 ages. Mr. Parish writes tliat the plant is very rare in the San 

 Bernardino Mts., as he has not met with it since 1879. The above 

 specimens are in the Gray Herbarium. 



Washington Agricultural College 



and School of Science, Pullman. 



