NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 113 
common in groves of oak at Gilroy, Cal., 13 April, 1903, col- 
lected by Carl F. Baker and distributed by him under 
n. 1945. Its nearest affinity is the small D. patulum. 
Gok 
DoDECATHEON SANCTARUM. Stout, firmly erect, 7 to 12 
inches high : roots short and fleshy, the newly formed upper- 
most almost fusiform: leaves obovate to nearly elliptic, 2 or 3 
inches long, including the rather long scarious-margined 
petiole, all obtuse, narrowly scarious-margined, either mi- 
nutely crisped or else plane and lightly as well as remotely 
crenate with a small callous tooth in each notch, the whole 
plant glabrous except the pedicels, calyx, etc., these more 
or less glandular; calyx-segments oblong, obtuse, glandular- 
ciliolate: corolla large, its segments an inch long, rich pur- 
_ ple except at the base, there whitish or flesh-color, the short 
tube of the darkest purple; anthers short, oblong, obtuse, 
nearly erect, somewhat divergent rather than convergent, 
the dark-colored connective strongly crested below, some- 
what so almost to the summit; style exserted; capsule 
circumscissile near the summit. : 
Santa Lucia Mountains, California. R. A. Plaskett, Feb., 
1898; distributed for D. Clevelandi, but not related to that; 
much more like D. Hendersonii. 
VERONICA OxyLoBULA. Allied to V. Americana, about 
as large, of like habit and glabrous: lowest leaves oval and 
2 inch long to ovate-lanceolate and 1} inches, obviously 
petiolate, entire, the floral not much larger, more lanceolate, 
lightly and almost obscurely serrate, acutish, all short petio- 
late: ‘racemes in all the axils: sepals elliptical, just equal- 
ling the capsules, these not in the least notched or emar- 
ginate but rather acutish: persistent style about as long as 
the capsule, not slender, erect. 
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