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its bristles spreading, not recurved, and straight to the very 
tips: nutlets (3 maturing) lanceolate-ovate, 14 lines long. 
brownish and smooth, but dull, not shining, the closed ven- 
tral groove opening at the very base into a transverse areola. 
This plant was first brought to me, from the hills near San 
Jose, California, by Mr. Rattan, and supposed by him to be a 
new species. I could then see nothing in it but a state of the 
common C. flaccida (Eritrichium oxycaryum of the Bot. 
Cal.) with larger corollas and more open: and spreading 
habit, for the specimens were young and only beginning to 
flower. The botanist of Monterey County, Mr. Hickman, has 
more recently favored me with a plant in good fruit, reveal- 
ing the excellent characters above given. 
ALLOCARYA HIRTA. Annual, more than a foot high, erect 
and stoutish but flaccid, simple below, with many pairs of 
connate-sheathing linear leaves, loosely racemose above, 
setose-hirsute throughout with widely spreading or some- 
what deflexed hairs and no appressed pubescence: racemes 
in pairs, bractless ; pedicels slender, a line long, calyx 2 lines, 
not accrescent, the segments erect in fruit, very hirsute : 
corolla 3 lines wide: nutlets ovate, 2 line long, dark colored, 
Scarcely carinate except ventrally, the dorsal face granulate 
and obscurely rugulose. 
Umpqua Valley, Oregon, 25 June, 1887, Thomas Howell ; 
the specimens distributed as “ Krynitzkia Chorisiana,” which 
it is very far from being, and is more like A. Scouleri, differ- 
ing from that not in character of nutlets, but in habit, pu- 
bescence, and the longer pedicels. 
ARABIS PURPURASCENS, Howell in herb. Stems 1—2 feet 
high, tufted, from a perennial root, soft-pubescent with 
spreading simple or forked hairs, and a shorter more branch- 
ing pubescence beneath: leaves scattered but rather ample, 
thin, green on both sides and with little pubescence, the low- 
est obovate-oblong, tapering to a petiole, the cauline narrowly 
oblong, sessile, all with scattered coarse and salient teeth: 
Issued February 4, 1888. 
