NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 157 
L. Menziesii of De Candolle having been adopted successively 
by all those authors. My own comments. on its behavior 
in California, published in Erythea in 1893, and suggesting 
the possibility of its being a foreigner, seem to have con- 
vinced Mrs. Brandegee and Dr. Robinson (Zoe, iv. 300, and 
Gray, Syn. Fl. i. 128) that it ought to be excluded from our 
catalogue of native species; and they claim to have identi- 
fied it with the South American L. bipinnatifidum. This 
did not improve matters in the least; for our plant has two 
strong peculiarities, either one of which militates effectually 
against its being received as L. bipinnatifidum. "They areas 
different in habit and inflorescence as two species of the 
same genus can wellbe. This alone should enable any com- 
petent botanist to distinguish them specifically, if he has but 
once compared the two plants. But the pods of the S. 
American species are perfectly smooth, of the N. American 
distinctly reticulate-venulose. 
Mr. Howell's description, drawn from very dwarf and 
almost branchless specimens, is inadequate to the identifica- 
tion of the species in its normal state. 
J SIDALCEA VALIDA. Perennial, erect, stout and somewhat 
fistulous, 4-6 feet high, the stem and long petioles of lower 
leaves loosely and almost hispidly pubescent with simple 
slightly deflexed hairs; the foliage roughish on both faces 
With short ascending geminate divergent hairs: lowest leaves 
on petioles 8-12 inches long, orbicular with closed sinus, the 
margin slightly lobed and coarsely toothed ; the middle and 
Upper cauline deeply parted into cuneate-obovate or nar- 
Tower segments with open sinuses: inflorescence in many 
short panicled spikes: petals } inch long, rose-purple, retuse : 
fruiting calyx depressed globose, the segments ovate-deltoid, 
the whole stellate-tomeritose: carpels smooth and glabrous, 
hot depressed, strongly beaked. : i 
T In wet meadows of Knight's Valley, Sonoma County, Cali- 
Collected by the writerin 1894. Species much like 
