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not more than i cm. in diameter. Bracts united, ternate, the lobes deltoid- 

 acuminate, dark red, glabrous, except for the long, white-woolly hairs on the 

 margin ; bractlets at base of involucres similar but smaller, with the lobes 

 more deeply divided on one side. Involucres turbinate, glabrous, indistinctly 

 ribbed, woolly-ciliate along the entire to undulate margins ; pedicels ex- 

 serted, distinctly jointed to the perianth at apex ; divisions orbicular to 

 obovate, hooded at apex, glabrous on the outside, hairy within at the base ; 

 the outer ones broader, 2 mm. long. Stamens slightly exserted, anthers 

 two-lobed, suborbicular. Akenes three-sided ; styles spirally coiled. 



This is near E. nudum Douglas, of which it may be 

 only an alpine variety. It looks quite different from the 

 common form as found in the Coast Mountains. 



Collected by the author on Harrison's Pass, above tim- 

 ber line, at an elevation of almost 14,000 feet, July 9, 1899. 



4. Garrya pallida, sp. nov. 



Branching shrub, several feet in height; older stems glabrous, dark brown; 

 younger ones cinereous, with densely appressed, silky pubescence. Leaves 

 oval, elliptical, ovate, or obovate, becoming stiff and thick with age, pale 

 green and glaucous, strongly veined, cinereous, with an appressed pubes- 

 cence of fine silky hairs on both surfaces but denser on the lower, and 

 becoming sparser with age; tapering somewhat at each end, the apex ab- 

 ruptly acuminate, with the point recurved, margin entire, thickened, rarely 

 slightly undulate; blade 3-7 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide; petiole stout, .5-1.5 cm. 

 long. Pistillate spikes pendent, solitary or clustered, 4-6 cm. long; lowest 

 bracts deeply cleft, long-acuminate, upper ones cleft above the middle, 

 abruptly acuminate, silvery, silky canescent from the densely appressed 

 hairs; ovaries ovate, on short, thick pedicels, with pubescence similar to 

 that of the bracts; styles divaricate; berries becoming almost glabrous. The 

 staminate flowers have not been seen. 



This species is nearest to G. fremonti Torrey, and is 

 found in the southern Sierra Nevada. The type was col- 

 lected in Kings River Canon, July, 1899. Specimens from 

 San Emidio Canon, Tejon Pass, and Tehachapi, all in Kern 

 County, also from the region of the Kaweah River, in Tulare 

 County, seem to be the same species. 



\/ 5. Convolvulus berryi, sp. nov. 



Stems perennial, trailing but scarcely twining, 5 dm. or more long, with 

 few branches from near the root, densely white-woolly throughout, with 

 fine, spreading hairs. Lower leaves on petioles longer than the blades; 

 upper shorter, 1-4 cm. long, broadly deltoid, with spreading sinus or 

 sagittate with the sinus less open, apex mucronate, the two basal angles 



