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hirsute throughout, and with a short somewhat villous 

 pubescence underneath the hirsute: leaves of thin texture, 

 mostly entire and simple, elliptic, acute, some of the radical 

 with a pair of pinnae at summit of the slender petiole: 

 racemes several, terminal and subterminal: corolla nearly 

 cylindrical, either deep purple or ochroleucous: mature 

 calyx-segments narrowly oblanceolate, or some of them more 

 dilated at summit, hispid with spreading hairs, without finer 

 pubescence: capsule small, ovate, acuminate, mostly 4-seeded. 

 Plant of higher altitudes than the preceding, growing in 

 richer and moister soil; common towards Castle Peak, and 

 southward to at least Alpine Co., also northward to the 

 borders of Oregon; seldom or never passing to the westward 

 slope of the Sierra. Its nearest ally is P. nemoralis of the 

 Coast Kange, to which species I formerly referred it, and 

 which also, like this, is purple-flowered in some localities^ 

 yellowish-flowered in others. In both cases the stamens and 

 style are so excessively elongated as to prevent the falling 

 away of the corolla, by becoming entangled in a loose knot 

 above its orifice. 



PHYTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND AMENDMENTS.— III. 



By Edwakd L. Gkeene. 



At page 17 of Erythea for 1895 was published a species of 

 vetch ( Vicia semicincta; this changed by the compositor, 

 even after the last proofs had been read, into '■'■ semicinecia ") 

 from one of the remotest corners of Oregon, which, in 

 default of the flowers, seemed to approach the very large V. 

 giganlea of the Pacific seaboard. I had not a doubt of its 

 being other than new. The locality, whence it had come, was 

 unsettled, almost, and botanically quite new to exploration. 

 The collector had recorded nothing as to the special habitat 

 of the plant, nor any suspicion, that it was not indigenous 

 there. She has this last season obtained the much desired 

 flowering specimenSj^ and has sent these also without any inti- 



