46 ERYTHEA. 



but well exceeded by the style: capsule oblong, 1 cm. long: seeds 

 numerous, deeply favose-reticulated. Abundant on perpendicular 

 cliffs, Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier, Washington, collected Aug. 7, 

 1895. The whole herbage of this species is dark purplish except 

 when it grows in the shade. The flowers are more vividly scarlet 

 than any other species known to me. The galea is green save the 

 thin scarlet margins." 



Plants which are undoubtedly referable to Prof. Piper's species 

 have recently been collected by Prof. O. D. Allen. These specimens 

 are more luxuriant than Prof. Piper's original plants, having the 

 calyx sometimes 2.5 and the corolla 3.5 cm. loug respectively. 



•i— i- Pubescence of the stem generally more dense and spreading, in 

 two forms minute or almost wanting but with leaves cleft above the 

 middle into ascending lobes: galea shorter than or barely equaling the 

 corolla- tube. 



C. ANOiUSTiFOLiA, Don. Stems more or less clustered from a 

 woody caudex, simple or slightly branched above, 1 to 3 dm. high, 

 invested throughout with mostly two kinds of pubescence, the shorter 

 fine and appressed, the longer pilose-hispid : leaves pubescent, the 

 lower linear, entire or subentire, the upper cleft near or below the 

 middle into 3 (rarely 5) linear or linear-lanceolate long-attenuate 

 lobes, the lateral ones rather strongly divaricate: inflorescence at 

 first short and dense, becoming elongated to 1 or 1.5 dm. in fruit: 

 bracts similar to the leaves, rather broader and more deeply cleft 

 into lance-linear bluntish segments, strongly pilose toward the base, 

 the scarlet or rarely yellowish tips velutinous and sometimes glan- 

 dular : calyx about 22 to 25 mm. long, with lanceolate or lance- 

 ovate segments : corolla 2 to 3 cm. long, the slightly exserted galea 

 hardly equaling the tube, and much exceeding the short 3-lobed 

 lip. — Gen. Syst. iv. 616. C. Douglasii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 530. C. desertorwn, Geyer in Hook. Journ. Bot. and Kew Misc. v. 

 258. Euchroma angustifolia, Nutt. Journ. Acad., Philad. vii., 46. 

 Specimens examined : Little Goddin River, headwaters of the 

 Columbia (N. B. Wyeth); California (Douglas); Oregon (Geyer, 

 No. 511); Kamiac Butte, Whitman Co., Washington, June 4, 1893 

 (F. L. Moore, No. 2324); foot of Humboldt Mts., Nevada, May 

 28 (Beckwith); near Carson City, Nevada, 1865 (C. L. Anderson, 

 No. 87); Cedar Mts., south of Great Salt Lake, May 10 (Beck- 



