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narrow petals brownish-red in the dry state, doubtless more 
yellow in the fresh. 
In the Sierra Nevada of California from Plumas Co. to 
Fresno Co.; the best specimens from the Yosemite Valley. 
I have long known this species, but was wont to consider it 
a variety of V. lobata ; but the characters of digitately almost 
divided leaves, laciniate stipules, and more especially the 
small short-peduneled flowers compel me to regard it as 
distinet. ; 
V. PSYCHODES. Also near V. lobata, but low (the stems 
only 2 or 3 inches high exclusive of the foliage), perfectly 
glabrous and distinetly glaucescent, the lower face of the 
leaves closely puncticulate, and notably reticulate-venulose: 
leaves flabelliform, broader than long, cleft to the middle, 
or somewhat more deeply, into 3 to 5 oblong or ovate-oblong 
lobes: stipules ovate, acuminate, entire, or nearly so: pe- 
duncles elongated, surpassing the leaves; sepals lanceolate, 
3-nerved : corolla an inch broad, the petals yellow internally 
and striate, the two upper larger than the others and red- 
purple externally. 
Near Waldo, Oregon, collected by Mr. Howell in 1887 and 
1892; distributed by him as V. lobata, which it resembles 
only as to the outline of its leaves, differing widely in all 
other characters. V. lobata, though described by Mr. Ben- 
tham as glabrous, is always puberulent at least, and com- 
monly very pubescent. I speak of it as it occurs in the re- 
gion whence Mr. Bentham had his specimens. 
CRITICAL NOTES on ANTENNARIA. 
A. ARNOGLOSSA. Stout flowering stems in the female 
plant commonly more than a foot high, in the male about 
two-thirds as high; all the foliage vivid-green above and 
usually wholly glabrous from the first, but finely and densely 
