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cled narrow but dense; flowers yellow; buds cylindraceous; 

 claws of the petals tomentose, nearly thrice the length of the 

 glabrous limb, this erose-dentate at summit; the ovary and 

 its stipe hispidulous: very narrow pods torulose and tor- 

 tuous, the stipe about equalling the pedicel. 



Collected by the writer, on a small tributary of Rock 

 Creek in southern Wyoming, 11 July, 1896. It will be the 

 second species of this interesting genus which Wyoming 

 has f amis bed; the other being S. tomentosa, belonging as 

 far as known to the northwestern part of the State. But 

 that specie.^iid this new one are not especially related to 

 each other, although both are distinguished from other mem- 

 bers of the genus. S. bipinnafa is nearly related to the ori- 

 ginal S. pinnata, from which it is most readily distinguish- 

 able by its finely dissected foliage and distinct though 

 sparse pubescence. 



SHORT ARTICLES. 



Endarachne Binghami^ : — J. G. Agardh, the veteran 

 algologist. Professor at Lund in Sweden, has just published 

 a third part of his " Analecta Algologica. " Several new 

 genera and species are described from different parts of the 

 world. California is represented by Endarachne Bing- 

 hamicB a new genus and a new species, which includes some, 

 if not all, of the forms of the West coast usually referred to 

 Phyllitis fascia Kuetz. — W. A. Setchell. 



Abies bracteata: — Professor C. S. Sargent on a recent 

 trip into the Santa Lucia mountains obtained fruiting speci- 

 mens of the rare and local Abies bracieaia. The cones are 

 infested with the larvae of some insect and very few seeds 

 are untouched. Perhaps this is the reason why the species 

 is represented by so few individuals, a few hundred at the 

 most being Professor Sargent's estimate of their number. 



