204 Eastwood : New species of western plants 



but with pustulate bases to the bristle-like hairs : inflorescence 

 generally 3-forked, the spikes bractless with the flowers secund, 

 subsessile, close but not crowded except when in bud, one flower 

 in the forks : divisions of the calyx linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 3 

 mm. long, with pubescence like the leaves, connlvent in fruit but 

 with tips free, midrib keeled and very bristly : corolla white, sal- 

 ver-form, the limb 5.5 mm. in diameter, with orbicular divisions 2 

 mm. broad, the tube shorter; crests in the throat white, minutely 

 papillate, slightly emarginate, each one distinct and with a smaller, 

 rounder crest below on a level with the tops of the anthers : sta- 

 mens inserted along the middle of the tube ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers with cells united only near the middle : lower part of 

 calyx-tube somewhat pubescent : nutlets 2-^ maturing, ovate, ob- 

 tusely pointed, truncate at base, a little more than 2 mm. long, i 

 mm. wide, mottled in two shades of brown, obscurely and sparsely 

 papillate, very glossy ; dorsal surface flattened, the groove on the 

 ventral surface forked at base but closed throughout, ^ attached 

 to the subulate gynobase. 



Collected by Dr. Edwin Bingham Copeland at' Klamathon, 

 Siskiyou County, California, July 5, 1903 (no. JSS^ ^^ Baker's 

 distribution). 



This species is nearest to Cryptcvithe ambigua (Gray) Greene, 

 but differs in habit of growth, being more erect and rigid, in the 

 inflorescence, in the color and surface of the nutlets and the closed 

 scar ; the flowers are similar but the crests in the throat are not 



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identical. The original figure of C. ambigita^ which was described 

 as Eritrichiumimiriadatum Torr. (Bot. Wilkes Exped.//. ij), has 

 no crests in the throat of the corolla-tube ; the calyx-segments 

 are more connlvent, the nutlets are dull instead of glossy and the 

 muriculations are more evident. 



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Phacelia eximia sp. nov. 



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clothed with fine white spreading bristles and glandular tomentuni 

 beneath : leaves compound, with generally one large leaflet at the 

 end and 2 or 3 smaller ones below ; terminal leaflet petiolulate, 

 obovate in outline, deeply 3-Iobed or undivided, laciniately crenate, 

 hispid and glandular : peduncles flat, about the entire length of 

 the leaf: racemes axillary from even the lowest leaves, spreading, 



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_ the entire length; bracts 

 none, pedicels 1^2 mm, long : calyx with narrow, oblanceolate divi- 

 sions, attenuate at base, loosely spreading, in flower 5 mm., in fruit 



