NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 225 
Collected near the base of Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County, 
California, by Mr. Vietor K. Chesnut, a pupil of mine to 
whom I gladly dedicate the species ; also by Dr. C. C. Parry, 
in Rutherford Canon, Napa Valley, in May, 1887: nearly 
related to R. Menziesii, but with very different petals and 
anthers. It is perhaps no great rarity in that botanically 
almost unexplored range of mountains which separates the 
Santa Rosa and Napa Valleys. 
For Sepum FonnEni (Pitt. i. 162. Feb. 1888), to which I at 
first inadvertently gave the homonym 5S. divergens, there is 
already a synonym ; it having been republished by Dr. Wat- 
son as S. Pringlei (Proc. Am. Acad. xxiii. 273, May, 1888). 
CALOCHORTUS VENUSTULUS (Greene, Pitt. i. 158, Jan. 1888), 
is also as promptly furnished with a synonym, it being C. 
Madrensis of Watson, in the article just cited. 
Mr. Pringle's specimens are better than those of Mr. Forrer 
(which latter were all I had at first), in that they show the 
real color of the well dried flower to be orange-yellow, rather 
than cream color; but there is one badly faded perianth upon 
one in my set of Pringle’s collection, and this exhibits the 
very shade I had described. 
EPILOBIUM OnkEGaNvM. Perennial (?), erect, stout, apparent- 
ly 3 feet high, the stems terete, glabrous leafy, and glau- 
cescent up to the slightly puberulent inflorescence : leaves 
opposite (except the floral), sessile, lanceolate, elosely denticu- 
late, 2 or 3 inches long: the floral smaller and alternate: 
eorolla deep purple, nearly an inch broad; the deeply obcor- 
date petals much exceeding the sepals: fruit unknown. 
Springy places, at Grant's Pass, Oregon, July, 1887; col- 
lected by Mr. Howell, and distributed under the name of E. 
glaucum, but it is not the South American species of that 
name. 
