NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 115 
Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, California, S. B. 
Parish : the specimens distributed as “Krynitzkia Jamesii,” 
but representing a most distinct new Oreocarya with very 
peculiar fruit; in habit also decidedly unlike any other 
species at present known. 
ALISMA VALIDUM. Annual, stout and low, the scape and 
inflorescence seldom a foot high and little surpassing the 
leaves; root a dense tuft of almost filiform fibres: leaves 
narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, very acute, 5-nerved, 2 to 3 
inches long, firm and firmly erect on the stout elongated 
petioles: branches of the panicle short: petals very small, 
pale rose-color : achenes about 15 in the whorl, very broadly 
semi-obcordate, rather thick, the short style appearing as if 
lateral, being about midway between the base and the ap- 
parent summit of the achene. 
Muddy margins of pools near Palisade, Nevada, July, 1893 
and 1896. The only Alisma seen by me in any part of the 
Humboldt River region; and entirely unlike A. Plantago | 
aquatica both in vegetative and fruit characters. 
RIBES cocnatum. Shrub evidently large, and the branches 
not rigid; younger branches stiffly and densely setose-hispid, 
the 1 to 3 subaxillary spines short, not very stout: leaves, 
and especially the long and slender petioles, villous-pubes- 
cent: flowers 3 to 5, at the ends of long and slender pendu- 
lous peduncles: calyx salverform, the long cylindric tube 
Villous-pubescent, twice the length of the oblong segments, 
the whole apparently pale flesh-color: petals spatulate- 
obovate, truncate or retuse, not equalling the calyx-seg- 
Ments: bracts of the raceme rounded or subreniform, glan- 
dular-ciliolate: ovaries glabrous. 
River banks at Pendleton, Oregon, 17 May, 1896, Mr. 
Thomas Howell. R. leptanthum is the nearest relative of this. 
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Prrrosis, vol. ITI. Issued 16 Dec., 1896. 
