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exploration, and the intense love for Santa Catalina Island 

 and its flowers which Mrs. Trask possesses. It is with 

 pleasure that I give her name to this tree. 



Photographs of several of these trees taken recently by- 

 Mrs. Trask show them to have widely spreading branches 

 and graceful habit, and to be well worthy of cultivation. 

 The branches are abundantly adorned with rosettes of 

 white tomentose flowers at all the leaf axils, the contrast of 

 which against the dark, glossy green of the upper leaf sur- 

 face is striking and beautiful. The same contrast occurs 

 between the upper and lower surfaces of the leaves, the 

 beauty of which is enhanced by the strong, even venation 

 and revolute margins of the leaves. 



This tree is unlike the other Pacific coast species and 

 perhaps approaches C fothergilloides H. B. K., the Mexi- 

 can species, more nearly than any other. It seems to be a 

 type of Cercocarfiis isolated and distinct. 



5. Calochortus Purdyi, sp. nov. 



Plate XI, Figs. 8a-8/. 



Glabrous and glaucous; stem 2-3 dm. high, rather stout, erect, branching, 

 two to many-flowered, not bulbiferous at base: radical leaf solitary, sheathing 

 the stem, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 dm. long, i cm. wide, the upper 

 surface bright green, the lower glaucous and ribbed with the filiform nerves; 

 bracts foliaceous, lanceolate-acuminate, amplexicaul, upper ones opposite; 

 pedicels equalling or slightly surpassing the bracts, erect in flower, recurved 

 in fruit: flowers broadly open-campanulate; sepals from elliptical to narrowly 

 ovate, abruptly acuminate, tinged with purple on the outer surface, purple- 

 veined on the inner, two-thirds as long as the petals; petals broadly obovate- 

 cuneate, acute or rounded at apex, creamy white or tinged with purple, 

 bearded all over the inner surface with long hairs which are white on the 

 upper half of the petals, purple on the lower, somewhat arched by the nar- 

 row, transverse, semicircular, conspicuous gland, the shallow pit of which is 

 covered by a densely hairy narrow scale; anthers lanceolate, abruptly acumi- 

 nate, cream color or purplish, shorter than the filaments, which broaden to 

 the base; capsule 3 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, broadly elliptical, with the three 

 thin wing-like valves transversely veined. 



This belongs to the § Eucalychortiis according to Wat- 

 son's arrangement in the Botany of California. In habit it 

 resembles C . albus, but in general is more like a giant C . 



