NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 291 
considerable tracts of ground, as it does, the plant is of some 
beauty when seen growing. 
LasTHENIA CONJUGENS. Annual, slightly succulent, a span 
high, puberulent: lower leaves narrowly linear, entire; the 
rameal with 1 or 2 pairs of narrow and elongated segments, 
these entire or sometimes with a few salient teeth: heads 
peduneled ; involucral bracts ovate, acute, slightly joined at 
base into a shallow cup; rays numerous, showy: achenes of 
a shining olive-green color and perfectly glabrous: pappus 
Moist flats along the river at Antioch, Contra Costa County, 
California; collected by the author, April 17, 1887. With 
the achenes, and the general aspect of a Lasthenia, the invo- 
lucral scales are so nearly distinct that the species might just 
as well be referred to Bæria. It would be likely to pass 
for a low and somewhat fleshy state of B. Fremonti, at first 
sight: but there is no member of that genus with such an 
achene. Nevertheless, the two genera are no longer naturally 
separable. 
CAMPANULA AURITA. Root perennial: stems several, a span 
high, erect, slender, leafy, 1-flowered; the whole plant pale 
and minutely scabrous : leaves an inch long, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, sessile by a narrow base, entire or with a few coarse 
teeth : segments of the calyx lanceolate, each with a pair of 
erect lobes or teeth at or near the base: corolla violet, 7 inch 
long, cleft to some distance below the middle, the segments 
lanceolate, widely spreading. 
A well marked and interesting species obtained on the 
table-lands of the Yukon River, Alaska, latitude 63, late in 
August, 1881, by Mr. Octavius S. Bates. 
Corrowra Rawsontana. Stems clustered, from perennial 
rather slender horizontal roots, or rootstocks, a foot high or 
more, sparingly branched, softly viscid-pubescent: leaves 2 
or 3 inches long, thin and bright green, broadly lanceolate, 
