Eastwood: New species of western plants 1D9 



even obovate, 1-5.5 cm- long, 0.5-3.5 c"^- wide, the rachis and 

 veins on lower surface tomentose, otherwise glabrous, irregularly 

 serrate ; stipules extending half up the petiole, the lower part 

 decurrent, the upper dilated, acuminate, entire or glandular- 

 toothed, the rachis occasionally with a few small prickles : flowers 

 solitary or in 3-4-flowered umbels, terminating clustered peduncles 

 at the ends of the branchlets ; bracts foliaceous, obovate, attenu- 

 ate at apex, tapering to a broad petiole 1-2 cm, long; pedicels 

 slender, glaucous, 1-2 cm. long : sepals ovate, tapering to a long 

 slender, foliaceous tip, lanceolate, 5 mm. to more than i cm, long, 

 the slender petiole-like part 5 mm., the lower part keeled, with a 

 few gland-tipped hairs, and tomentose margins, the entire calyx 2 

 cm. long; corolla rose-colored; immature fruit globular, with a 

 short neck, glaucous. 



Collected by the author along a small stream, in the shade of 

 the trees, near Laytonville, Mendocino County, California, August 

 3, 1902. 



This seems unlike any other species in California. It is dis- 

 tinguished by the stems almost destitute of prickles, the extremely 

 long foliaceous calyx-divisions, and the peculiar inflorescence. 



'^'Adenostoma fasciculatum densifolium var. nov. 



This is marked from the typical form by the closely clustered 

 fascicles of leaves on the flowering stems ; the leaves are short- 

 aristate, with few scattered hairs ; the inflorescence is narrow, a 

 densely-flowered spicate thyrsus, often with one or two short 

 branches at base. The inflorescence resembles a slender finger in 

 shape and size. This singular variety was collected on Mt, Wil- 

 son, near Pasadena, California, by Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., June 6, 



1903. 



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Heuchera Merriami sp. nov 



Rootstock thick, coated with dry, sheathing petioles, hori- 

 zontal ; stems several from the caudex, 2 dm. high, generally with 

 a small leaf near the base : radical leaves orbicular, truncate at 

 base, slightly lobed, the lobes crenate and each crenature apiculate, 

 ciliate, 2-3 cm. w^ide, and about as long, glandular and hispid es- 

 pecially on the lower surface ; petioles 1-4 cm, long, clothed with 

 glandular, spreading hairs, stipules white-membranous, very glan- 

 dular, auriculate at apex, the entire base of the petiole 5 mm.: 

 panicle g'andular-puberulent and hairy, somewhat contracted ; 

 peduncles 5—10 mm. long, cymes closely 5-9-flowered ; the pedi- 



