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The following specimens of each species are in the Her- 

 barium of the California Academy of Sciences: — 



Romneya Coulteri, Anaheim, July, 1885, M. K. Curran, (with fruit and buds). 

 Baja California, W. G. Wright, (in flower). 

 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, (cultivated). 

 Santiago Creek, near Orange, Orange Co., Calif., Miss 



Agnes Bowman, June, 1898, (with flowers and 



buds). 

 Romneya trichocalyx, hXxso, Baja Calif., T. S. Brandegee, May 30, 1893, (in 



flower and dry fruit). 

 Sausal, Baja Calif., T. S. Brandegee, June 4, 1893, (in 



flower). 

 Caiion de Gato, Baja Calif., T. S. Brandegee, June 5, 



1893, (stem only). 

 Near Temecula, Riverside Co., Calif., No. 393, S. B. 

 Parish, Oct., 1882, (in flower). 

 Matilija Canon, Ventura Co., Calif., F. W. Hubby, May 



18, 1895, (in flower). 

 Santa Maria R., Santa Barbara Co., Calif., Mrs. Ida E. 



Blochman, (a bud only). 

 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, (cultivated). 



3. Sedum Congdoni, sp. nov. 



Plate XI, Figs. ^a-^d. 



Stem 1-6 cm. high, simple or branched from near the base, with slender, 

 erect, tortuous branches: leaves alternate, 2-4 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide: 

 very fleshy, ovate, obtuse, sessile, the place of insertion above the base; 

 flowers yellow tinged with red, sessile in sparingly branched, few-flowered 

 cymes terminating the branches; calyx with five short, broadly triangular 

 divisions, acute and red-tipped; petals five, ovate-lanceolate, less than 2 mm. 

 long, red at the apex; stamens ten, with thread-like filaments shorter than 

 the petals; anthers kidney-shaped; ovaries five, tuberculate near the apex, 

 i-ovuled; styles curved outwards; fruit unknown. 



This might be mistaken for Sedum ^umilum, since both 

 are small and have one-seeded follicles. The latter has 

 much larger yellow flowers, linear-lanceolate petals, erect 

 styles, and glabrous ovaries. The fringe of hairs at the 

 suture of the follicle is much longer and finer in S . ■ptimilum 

 than in S . Congdoni. The former is farinose when young, 

 becoming glabrous with age. The figures are designed to 

 show the differences in regard to the petals and pistils of 

 the two species. 



