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along with the other high altitude forms, and also high up in 



Greene's type locality for this proposed species. It also occurs 

 in the Henrv Mts., Utah, at 10.000 feet altitude, and at vari- 

 ous places in eastern Nevada at 6000 feet. 



Eriogonum dumosum Greene Pittonia 3 199. Greene savs 

 of this that it is 5-6 feet high (?). akenes very prominently 

 angled, and that E. umbellatum is alv^avs a low and caespitose 

 undershrub, seldom or never a foo thigh. There is not a single 

 character given by Greene for his species that is not found in 

 the latter, the so-called "excellent technical character" of a 

 "very prominently angled akene" not excepted. I collected his 

 proposed species, which was about 2 feet high at Susanville, 

 California, having all of Greene's characters and in addition 

 vpry long rays. It is simply a robust form of E. umbellatum ; 

 the young flowers are often very short and broad. 

 Eriogonum angulosum var. Victorense n. var. 

 A close ally to the type having the same bracts and fasci- 

 cles of leaves within them and the habit of gracillimum, with 

 long racemes and filiform and curved pedicels 1 inch long; 

 whole plant almost glabrous, but the underside of the leaves 

 floccose ; leaves broadly to narrowly oblong and acute ; sepals 

 narrow, 1 line long, not saccate, enlarging above, spreading, 

 (■rose, pink, the flowers are double the size of the type and are 

 much narrower and there are intergrades with gracillinuni. 

 Victor, California, May 18, 1903. 

 Chorizanthe floccosa n. sp. 



This is near to C. Californica ; stem leaves oblong, nearly 

 sessile acute; whole plant woolly, the scattered heads densely 

 .'■o ; bracts ovate, acerose-tipped with short and straight awns, 

 flowers very small; involucres densely woollv forming an 

 ovate mass, with very short awns and hyaline margins. 

 Bakersfield. California, Mav 3, 1903. 



Polygonum. The revision of this genus bv Small at first 

 sight gives a person great pleasure because of the ample pages, 

 tine letter press and engravings, but when one attempts to use 

 n in the identification of species it is most unsatisfactory be- 

 cause the new species proposed are mostly fiat species, while 

 lhe drawings correspond neither with the text nor to the spe- 

 nds as they exist in nature, the stipules and akenes of the 

 drawings are particularly the products of the imagination; 

 though the writer has plenty of material of P. tenue both from 



