1904] EASTWOOD: WESTERN POLEMONIACEAE 443 
appressed on the stems, spreading on the leaves, bracts, and 
flowers: leaves opposite, palmately divided generally into six 
spatulate or linear-acute segments, 3—-7™™ long on the lower 
stem and almost twice as long near the flowers, appearing as if 
whorled with the internodes lengthening with age, in the young 
plants scarcely longer than the leaves: bracts of the terminal 
head of flowers as long as the calyx, palmately divided into five 
linear-acuminate divisions 7™™ long, 1 ™™ or less wide, the inner 
surface glabrous but the outer surface and involute margins his- 
pid: divisions of the calyx twice as long as the cuneate tube, 
linear-subulate, aristate with pubescence similar to that of the 
bracts: corolla yellow, the tube filiform, 4-5°™ long, clothed 
with fine scattered spreading jointed hairs; throat broadly funnel- 
form, expanding to the limb which is 1.5°™ across, with the 
divisions suborbicular, 5™™ wide, rounded at apex, generally with 
two faint lilac dots at base, sometimes the outer part of the lobes 
tinged with rose or lilac: stamens on capillary filaments, exserted, 
inserted at the base of the throat, 4™™ long; anthers yellow or 
orange, narrowly elliptical, a little more than 1™™ long: stigmas 
surpassing the stamens, 3™™ long; ovary with few ovules: fruit 
not seen. 
This beautiful species was collected by the author May 9g, I90!, near Pt. 
San Pedro, San Mateo county, California. It covered the ground for several 
acres, but was seen in no other place, and is probably a strictly local species. 
It is perhaps the most strikingly beautiful species of the group where it 
belongs, with the long threadlike tubes of the corolla supporting the wonder- 
fully beautiful yellow disks. The great masses almost monopolized the 
oun e species is well worthy of a iia in the gardens, and would do 
well Gaaer the same conditions as its near relative L. androsaceus, from 
which it differs not only in color but also es leaves, shape and size of flower, 
and pubescence. 
- Linanthus Plaskettii, sp. nov.—Branching diffusely from an 
annual tap root and also above; the numerous stems slender, 
often reddish and cinereous with a scabrous, hispid pubescence: 
leaves opposite, digitately divided, appearing verticillate, spatu- 
_ late, scabrous-ciliate or somewhat serrate with aristate teeth, 
3-8™™ long, surface grooved between the midrib and the thick 
margins, somewhat scabrous especially near the apex and on the 
margins, appearing serrulate-aristate, the apex bristle-tipped: 
