New or Noteworthy Species. 



VIII. 



Vancouveria partiflora. v. hexandra, Greene, Bull 

 Calif. Acad. i. 66, and mainly of Brew. & "Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 

 15. A low evergreen undershrub with running lignesceut 

 rootstocks and short erect leafy branches rising an inch or 

 two above ground : leaves snbcoriaceous, purplish in age and 

 persistent through the winter : scape less than a foot high, 

 bearing a loose panicle of 25 to 50 small white or lavender- 

 tinged flowers ; ovary glabrous. 



Common on bushy hills from the Santa Cruz Mountains 

 northward to and beyond Mt. Tamalpais, California, flowering 

 m May. Eeadily distinguished from F. hcccandra by its three 

 or four times as numerous small flowers and glabrous ovary, 

 but most remarkably unlike it in its vegetative. characters ; 

 for that has thin membranaceous leaves which die at the end 

 of summer. Moreover, its stems rise singly, or only two or 

 three from one root, whereas those of V. parviflora form 

 crowded masses often several feet broad 



HEXANDR 



., var. CHRYSANTHA. V. chrysannta, 

 Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1. c. This differs from the type in 

 having almost golden-yellow flowers, those of true and original 

 T . hexandra being white. It was owing to my having been 

 erroneously taught that what I here name F. parviflora was 

 the true F. hexandra, that I made the mistake of publishing 

 tlie large yellow-flowered plant as a species. V. hexandra. 

 has been found in Trinity County by Messrs. Chesnut and 

 IJiew It also exists in the State Survey collection, probably 

 from Mendocino County or from Humboldt ; but it does not 

 appear to trespass on the territory of F. parrljlora. In the 



^^ June 3, 1890. 



