140 PITTONIA. 
À most remarkable plant, being a true Sidalcea with the 
habit of the suffrutescent species of M. alvastrum, and the pu- 
bescence and inflorescence of the annual members of its own 
genus. The specimen showing the perennial root is evidently ' 
à young plant, and I have little doubt that in age the species 
is half-shrubby. 
^ CLARKIA SAXEANA. A foot or two high, glabrous: leaves 
lanceolate, entire, short-petioled : ealyx-tube slender, more 
thàn an inch long, abruptly ovate-dilated at base: petals 
large, round-obeordate, with a cuneate-obovate middle lobe 
proceeding from the shallow sinus and far exceeding the, 
others: stamens 4, surpassing the corolla, the filaments 
strongly clavate: anthers oblong-linear, densely white-villous 
along the lines of dehiscence, erect, not recurved after shed- 
ding their pollen: capsule an inch long, stout, sessile, curving 
away from the stem; seeds large, tuberculate and conspicu- 
ously winged, the whole outline linear-oblong. 
Obtained near the Geysers, in Napa County, Cal., in the 
year 1872, by Dr. A. W. Saxe of Santa Clara ; subsequently 
cultivated by him for a number of years ; here described from 
the wild specimens kept in the California Academy herbarium 
and labelled “Hucharidium Breweri.” A very strongly charac- 
terized species, in its petals which are nearly without a claw, 
long and conspicuous middle lobe, and in its stamens, for these 
latter remain straight and erect in age, while in all the other 
species they are recurved into a ring immediately after burst- 
ing. The plant is, of course, an Hucharidium, a purely arti- 
ficial genus Which, it is to be hoped, American botanists will 
not longer try to sustain by authority. "The other Species are 
as follows : 
" C. Tunis = Eucharidium concinnum, Fisch. & Mey. Sem. 
ort. Petrop. ii. 11; Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxiii. t. 1962: Brew. & 
Wats. Bot. Cal. i, 939. * le 
