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late : pedicels slender : calyx-lobes nerveless, margined, acutish, a line 

 long; petals tvyice longer, narrowly oblong: capsule ovate, a little ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, 8-seeded: seeds nearly black, turgid, with several 

 rows of minute tubercles along the rounded margins. — In the Coast 

 Mountains, near Waldo in Southwestern Oregon, Thomas Howell, June, 

 1884. A stouter plant than A. Douglasii, and differing in its greater 

 glandulosity, broader leaves and bracts, smaller flowers with nerveless 

 calyx, and narrower capsule, and in the seeds. 



Talinum brachypodum. Perennial, the roots thick, elongated, 

 not tuberous, and the caudex bearing several short leafy stems (1 to 2 

 inches long) : lower leaves scale-like, the upper linear, 3 to 5 lines 

 long: flowers few, axillary near tlie summit, on very short pedicels 

 (1 or 2 lines long) jointed near the base: sepals acutish, 2 lines 

 long, the bright pink petals twice longer or more : capsule ovate, 2 

 lines long. — A dwarf showy species allied to T. aurantiacum, with 

 nearly sessile flowers. Found near the Indian village Laguna, or 

 " Komack," in Northwestern New Mexico, by Mr. and Mrs. J. G. 

 Lemmon, July, 1884. 



Calandrinia oppositifolia. Root very thick and fleshy: radi- 

 cal leaves linear-oblanceolate, attenuate to the scarious-margined sub- 

 terranean base, H to 3 inches long, the lower cauline (1 to 3 pairs) 

 opposite and similar, with occasionally scattered entire bracts above : 

 stem 3 to 10 inches high, simple or branching, and bearing one or more 

 terminal mostly 3-flowered umbels : pedicels elongated (1 to 3 inches 

 long) : sepals orbicular (3 or 4 lines long), acutely dentate but not 

 glandular ; petals 10, white or pinkish, 5 or G lines long : stamens 8 to 

 12 or more: style deeply 3-cleft : capsule oblong, 3 lines long, 5-10- 

 seeded. — Collected by Thomas Howell at Waldo, Oregon, and in the 

 Coast Mountains of Del Norte County, California, near Smith River. 



Calaxdrixia Cotyledon. Perennial, with thick roots and a stout 

 rootstock crowned with a dense rosette of fleshy spatulate or oblanceo- 

 late leaves 1 or 2 inches long and h to 1 inch broad : scape-like stem 

 bearing 2 or 3 lanceolate subscarious bracts below the short cymose 

 panicle, 4 to 8 inches high ; bracts glandular-ciliate ; pedicels short: 

 sepals orbicular, 2 lines long, many-nerved, the nerves excurrent and 

 gland-tipped; petals 10^ deep rose-color, oblanceolate, 6 lines long: 

 stamens 7, equalling the petals, the filaments dilated below and some- 

 what coherent : style elongated ; stigtnas 3 or 2 : ovary narrowly 

 oblong, H lines long, 3-4-valved ; ovules 12 to 20. — A pretty and 

 well-marked species, collected by Thomas Howell in the Siskiyou 

 Mountains, Del Norte County, California, near the head of Illinois 



