﻿582 Heller : New and interesting 



-. v 



mu 



or shorter" than those of 5. ciliata. Our specimens, collected at 

 Montesano, Washington, have flowers much larger, and red-pur- 

 ple in color, as compared with the pink flowers of 5. ciliata, which 

 is also plentiful at the same place. The plant in the Columbia 

 herbarium, collected by Holmes on the Fraser river, and cited as 

 the type of the variety, is imperfect, and the flower appears to be 

 rather small. This appearance, however, is probably due to in- 

 sufficient pressure, for in other respects our plant is similar, as 

 are specimens collected by Macoun in British Columbia. In ad- 

 dition to the larger, darker colored flowers, this species is 

 stouter than vS. ciliaris, blooms two weeks later, has narrower leaves 

 in proportion to their length, with sharper crenations, and the in- 

 florescence is longer, with shorter and narrower floral leaves. 



HVDROPHYLLUM TENUIPES Sp. nOV. 



Stems erect, rather stout, about 5 dm. high, branching, pur- 

 plish, especially below, channeled, sparingly covered with spreading, 

 clear colored hairs : leaves broadly ovate in outline, the larger 

 lower ones about 10 cm. in length by 15 cm. in width, lower and 

 basal ones long-stalked, pinnately 3-5 -parted, the lobes obovate, 

 and laciniately toothed or cut, the teeth acute, mucronate ; both 

 sides more or less provided with hairs of the same character as 

 those of the stem, but appressed ; the under side also slightly whit- 

 ened : cymes on stalks about 8 cm. in length, simple or forked, the 

 flowers borne on slender pedicels .5-1.5 cm. in length, which are 

 beset with the same kind of hairs which are on the other parts of the 

 plant : calyx 7-8 mm. long, the lobes erect, narrowly linear-lance- 

 olate, hispid-ciliate with the same clear spine -like hairs : flowers 

 creamy, or faintly tinged with purple, the corolla-lobes almost 

 oval in outline, a little longer than the calyx, slightly notched, with 

 an oblong appendage half as long as the lobe attached to the inner 



hisp 



The type is our no. 3853, collected at Montesano 



county, Washington, May 31, 1898.' The plants grew in low, 

 moist, rich ground, along the Chehalis river, in a place which later 

 in the season becomes overgrown with grass, small bushes, and 

 various herbaceous species. Hydrophyllitm tenuipes belongs to the 

 medley called Hydrophyllum occidental, but differs from typical 

 plants of that species by its acute leaf-segments, possibly taller 

 growth, and the totally different character of its pubescence. 



411 W. Walnut street, Lancaster, Pa. 



