174 ERYTHEA. 



cm. long, equaled by the margined petioles; cauline similar, 

 usually two, the upper sessile or nearly so; inflorescence of a few 

 heads on peduncles 2-4 cm. long, borne in the axils of lanceolate 

 bracts, or the lowest head in the axil of the upper leaf; heads 1 

 cm. high, about 20-flowered; involucre of about 8 bracts, these 

 lanceolate, obtuse, 10 mm. long, with scarious margins as broad as 

 the green central portions; rays few, 5 mm. long; achenes glabrous ; 

 pappus white, equaling the corollas of the disk flowers; style-tips 

 truncate, margined with short glandular hairs. 



Collected by A. D. E. Elmer, No. 715, on gravelly moraines at 

 the head of North Fork of Bridge Creek, Okanogan County, Wash., 

 September, 1897. 



One of the Senecio lugens group, well characterized by its 

 cespitose habit as well as in technical characters. 



Polemonium amoenum. Perennial, erect, or nearly so, 4-6 

 dm. high, glabrous below, sparsely viscid-puberuleut above; stems 

 terete, slightly wing-margined; cauline leaves 4 or 5, 15 cm. long; 

 leaflets 15-21, lanceolate, sessile, attenuately acute, 2-3 cm. long; 

 inflorescence leafy -bracteate, open, the flowers in clusters of 2-4 on 

 slender peduncles ; bracts 3 to 9-foliolate ; calyx deeply 5-cleft, 



I cm. long, viscid-pilose, the narrow, acute lobes about twice as 

 long as the tube; corolla pale blue, 1.5 cm, long, the broad obtuse 

 lobes exceeding the tube; filaments dilated at base, pilose-append- 

 aged; style 3-cleft at apex, included; seeds 3-4 in each cell. 



Humptulips, Chehalis County, Wash., F. H. Lamb, No. 1178, 



II June, 1897. 



Nearest to P. carneum Gray, from which it differs in its smaller 

 blue flowers and more numerous narrower leaflets. 



SHORT ARTICLES. 



Epitaph of David Douglas. — Upon either side of the door- 

 way or entrance to the Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu the passer-by 

 may see a tablet set in the wall. One of these is in commemoration 

 of David Douglas, the botanical explorer, who met, after leaving 

 California, a tragic death on one of the Hawaiian Islands. The 

 inscription upon the tablet reads as follows: — 



