NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 981 
distichous, being scattered almost equably on all sides of the 
stem: leaves 3—8 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
all but the lowest distinctly faleate at apex: raceme erect, 
simple, lax, few-flowered, the lower pedicels often an inch 
long.—Smilacina stellata, Wats. Bot. King. 345, not of Des- 
fontaines. 
A species inhabiting the higher Sierra in California, extend- 
ing northward indefinitely; common and rank in the woods 
of northern California and southern Oregon; perhaps oecur- 
ring in Macoun's collection made on Vancouver Island in 1887 
(but his plant, distributed as S. sessilifolia, has foliage less 
faleate and quite distinctly 2-ranked); extending eastward, 
it may be to the mountains of Utah. Differing widely from 
the true U. sessifolium (which is confined to the Coast Range 
of California), as will be seen by comparison of the specifie 
characters above given. 
Both these western plants differ from the eastern U. stella- 
tum, in being glabrous and of a bright shining green with 
nothing of the glaucous. U. stellatum is both pubescent and 
glaucous; so that, in color of herbage, it is very unlike its 
Pacific allies. Its foliage is also of a different outline. 
The fruit of U. stellatum is described as purplish black. 
That of U. sessifolium is of a bright clear red. No one appears 
to have observed the berries of U. liliaceum. I name it in 
allusion to that very lily-like aspect the plant wears before 
flowering ; the large scattered leaves adorning all sides of the 
stem, as they do in any lily, but in no other Unifolium. 
Urtica CaLiFORNICA. Stoutish and not tall (2 or 3 feet 
high), very hispid: stipules large, narrowly oblong: leaves 
broadly or somewhat deltoidly ovate, acute, cordate at base, 
3—5 inches long, very coarsely toothed, ascending or spread- 
ing on stoutish petioles 1—14 inches long: sepals broadly 
ovate, little exceeding the broadly ovate, minutely punctate 
achene which is little more than 4 line long.— U. Lyallii in 
part of Watson (?). 
Borders of thickets near streamlets on the seaward slope 
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