﻿Heller : Plants from Western North America 627 



This species was also collected by Douglas at the " Kettle 

 Falls/' now known as Spokane Falls, but his specimens, as well 

 as Nuttall's original, were referred to 0. monogymis, a species in- 

 habiting the middle and southern Rocky mountain region. 



LlNUM AUSTRALE Sp. nOV. 



Annual (?), usually somewhat corymbosely branched from the 

 base, 2—3 dm. high, the stem ascending, glaucous, puberulent, 

 angled, especially in the upper half, leafy throughout ; leaves nar- 

 rowly linear, .5-1.5 cm. long, 1 mm. wide, one-nerved, more or 

 less glandular ciliate, especially the upper ones : sepals linear-lance- 

 olate, about 5 mm. long, one-nerved or keeled, light colored at the 

 base, greenish above, glandular ciliate, awn-pointed : petals pale 

 yellow throughout, little longer than the calyx : capsule ovoid, 

 between 3 and 4 mm. long, somewhat obtuse. 



Our no. 3724, first collected on an open slope in dry ground, 

 at the head of the reservoir, four miles east of Santa Fe, New Mex- 

 ico, June 17, 1897, altitude 7,500 feet. Later it was obtained 

 eleven miles southeast of Santa Fe, along the road leading to Can- 

 oncito. At this second station it grew on dry slopes which were 

 sparsely clothed with pine trees. The type is in the herbarium of 

 the New York Botanical Garden. 



Only two species of Liniun were observed in the vicinity of 

 Santa Fe, this species and Linutn puberulitm (Engelm.) Heller, but 

 the latter was seen only on the lower ground to the north and 



west of the town. 



To Lmum australe belong Prof. E. O. Wooton's no. 592, col- 

 lected in the White mountains, Lincoln County, New Mexico, 

 July 30, 1897, altitude 6 f 8oo feet, as well as Dr. D. T. MacDou- 

 gal's no. 379, collected August 4, 1898, on the slopes of Mt. San 

 Francisco, near Flagstaff, Arizona. 



Galium Watsoni (A. Gray) 



Galium multifloriim, var. Watsoni A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. I 2 : 



40. 1884. 



Described as " mostly glabrous and smooth ; leaves thinner, ob- 

 long-lanceolate (commonly about half an inch long and 2 lines wide), 

 with lateral nerves either distinct or obsolete.— G. multifloram Wat- 

 son, 1. c. (Bot. King Exped. 135) in great part." From descrip- 



