NEW SPECIES OF ERIOGONUM. Id; 
This is the plant which Mr. Howell, Fl. 573, has taken, though | 
with a mark of doubt, for Æ. nudum, which latter truly does 
not occur within Mr. Howell’s limits. 
E. oBLANCEOLATUM. Near Æ. nudum, 2 feet high or more, 
the naked peduncle and its rather numerous dichotomous 
branches, glabrous, glaucescent; leaves thick and firm, the ob- 
lanceolate acutish blade 14 to 24 inches long, passing very 
gradually to the petiole, this narrow, mostly 2 or 3 inches long 
and flocculent, the blade densely white-tomentose beneath, 
wholly glabrous above: involucres narrow-turbinate, less than 
2 lines long: perianths white or pinkish, short, their outer seg- 
ments round-obovate, not at all tapering below, the inner deli- 
cately villous along the midvein near the base. 
Foothills of Mt. St. Helena in Napa and Sonoma counties, 
California, the type specimens by myself, 13 June, 1894. 
Thoroughly distinct from F., nudum by its exactly oblanceolate 
foliage and broad rounded perianth-segments. 
E. pepuctum. Allied to Æ. nudum, equally perennial, much 
smaller, about a foot high, the pedunculiform branches first 
forked near the middle, and these bearing often a single scarcely 
reduced or modified leaf ; leaves mostly oval, commonly 3 inch 
long, seldom longer, glabrate above, white-tomentose beneath, 
all tapering abruptly to a petiole of about 2 inches: branches 
several, glabrous, glaucous; involucres turbinate, 14 lines long ; 
perianths white or pinkish, about a line long, the somewhat. 
cuneately obovate segments obtuse, glabrous. 
An almost alpine (never less than subalpine) homologue of the 
large Z. nudum, inhabiting the Sierra Nevada of California, 
and common in collections. 
