40 PITTONIA. 
R. Sitchensis, no form of which has been found so far south 
as this, not eyen in the alpine regions of the Sierra. 
For a published figure of R. Californica I should like to feel 
warranted in citing the so-called Æ. Sitchensis of the Botanical 
Magazine, Plate 6109, which, whatever it be, is not R. Sztchensis, 
It has neither the bulbous crown, nor the habit nor the foliage 
of that species; but in all these points it is like Æ. Cakfornica. 
That such a plant grew from seeds collected by Tiling at Sitka, 
as is intimated in Hookers’ text, I do not at all believe. Tiling, 
in his journeyings on the Pacific Coast, was, however, at San 
Francisco; and there is curious evidence of his having con- 
ferred with Dr. Kellogg on the subject of Romanzofia. It is 
easy to think Dr. Kellogg may have conducted him to one or 
more stations for the Californian plant that are not much 
more than an hour’s travel from the city, and that seeds of this 
plant may have got into Europe, and been productive of a part 
of the “R. Sitchensis” plants, derived through Tiling. But 
seeds of real R. Sitchensis, from Sitka, were also carried to 
Germany by Tiling, as is proven by Regel’s figures in the 
Gartenflora, 
There seems to be cited by Gray, in the Synoptical Flora, a 
figure of the Californian plant, where, under illustrations of T 
R. Sitchensis, he mentions “ Pac. R. Rep. iv. t. 25.” This has — 
perplexed me; for the plate mentioned is that of a plant far 
enough from Romanzofia. But Dr. Rose has now arrived at an 
explanation of it, as a misprint. The “t. 25” should read 
125, page 125 being that on which Æ., Sitchensis as collected by 
Bigelow is mentioned. _ 
9. R. MENDOCINA. Subterranean parts unknown; rather 
freely branching stem 8 or 10 inches high ; herbage glabrous, f 
but a large woolly bulblet in one or more of the lower axils: © 
leayes large and thin, not in the least reniform, rather of a some- 
what obovate-orbicular outline, only 5-lobed, or the uppermost | 
3-lobed, the lobes of all much broader than long: flowers not | 
