NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 159 
A peculiar species, with a little of the aspect of the Cali- 
fornian C. lilacinus, the sepals and petals more nearly alike 
than in any other member of the genus. 
New or NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 
Il. 
TRIFOLIUM SCABRELLUM, Annual, a foot or two high, with 
many decumbent branches; glabrous, except a minute and 
Sparse scabrous pubescence on the involucres, peduncles and 
younger leaves and leafstalks: leaflets elliptic-oblanceolate, 
an inch or more in length, setaceously denticulate, the apex 
truncate, toothed like the margins and with a central cusp: 
peduncles slender, far exceeding the leaves: involucre lacini- 
ately multifid, the segments rigid and aristate-subulate : calyx 
nearly cylindrical, the subsearious and colorless tube striate- 
veined, nearly as long as the equal purple teeth which are 
entire, and subulate-aristiform from a broadly ovate base : 
corolla 5 lines long, banner light purple, wings dark, keel 
white. | 
.. Moist grounds on the plains near Visalia, California, March, 
1886, Dr. T. J. Patterson. Allied to T. tridentatum, but quite 
distinct. 
SAXIFRAGA MaRsHALLIL. Caudexshort, not bulbous : leaves 
on elongated flattened but scarcely dilated petioles, oval or 
oblong, obtuse, coarsely and evenly triangular-toothed, the 
base ubruptly acute, or nearly truncate, or slightly rounded : 
scape naked, 8 inches high, minutely glandular-pubescent : 
calyx free from the ovary, the segments reflexed : petals 14 
lines long, narrowly oblong, acute, white with an oval green 
spot on each side of the midnerve toward the base: stamens 
