354 Munzanp JounsTon: PLANts of CALIFoRNIA—II - 
Locally common on moist, shaded, oak-covered canyon-sides 
in the upper chaparral belt on the south slope of the San Antonio 
Mountains, where specimens have been collected in Charcoal 
Fork of Cucamonga Canyon, at 4200-4500 feet altitude, Johns- 
ton 1303, and near Brown’s Flats, at 4200 feet, Johnston 1759. 
The specimens appear the same, character for character, as the 
common plant of Mendocino and Siskiyou Counties. The plant 
was known to range as far south as Mariposa County, where it 
was collected by Congdon, but between that station and the 
one in Southern California, which we now report, there lies a 
gap of over 280 miles in which the plant is not known to occur. 
This station for V. Sheltont was announced as V. lobata by 
Johnston (Bull. So. Calif. Acad. 17: 65. 1918). 
OENOTHERA SPECIOSA Nutt. 
Oenothera speciosa Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 2: 119. 1821. 
Hartmanntia speciosa Small, Bull. Torrey Club 23: 181. 1896. 
Well established along Chino Creek, from Pomona to near 
the confluence with the Santa Ana River. First collected 
several years ago by Johnston. Recently the following specimens 
have been collected near Pomona, all in moist soil along the 
stream: Mrs. Leningion, Munz 4680, 4560. These discoveries 
add a new species and subgenus of Oenothera to the flora of Cal- 
ifornia. Our material is atypical in its rounded instead of ob- 
cordate petals and in being tallet, some of the specimens attaining 
a height of four feet. 
’Oenothera cardiophylla var. splendens var. nov. 
A large flowered variation with hypanthium two-thirds as 
long as the capsule and 20-25 mm. long; petals 15 mm. long. 
Type: high among rocks at the foot of The Needles, Colorado 
River, March 7, 1910, Grinnell (Univ. Calif. Herb. 196590). 
A very remarkable variation of the species and, because of 
its large flowers, probably of ornamental value. We know of 
but two collections, the one from The Needles by Grinnell and 
the other from the Chocolate Mountains by Childs. The 
foliage and habit of the plant are those characteristic of the 
species. No doubt some will consider this distinct enough for 
a species, but we are deterred from publishing it as such because 
of the immense amount of variation in the floral structures of 
