NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. . 105 



and puiple-dotted lower one : the broadly ovate, little com- 

 pressed gibbous and indeliiscent capsule liard-coriaceous, 

 many-seeded : seeds brownish, of elliptical outline but cyathi- 

 form ! deeply favose-pitted. 



In moist meadows near Lake Eleanor, California, 1890, 

 Chesnut & Drew, An extremely beautiful species of the QiJnoe 

 section of the genus, combining the habit of E. Douglasu 

 with the flower and fruit of _EJ. angustafits ; the corolla half 

 purple and lialf yellow. The seeds of this section of Eunaniis 

 are little known. In this one they are strongly caneavo- 

 convex, but elongated, and the honey-combed character of 

 the testa is very beautiful under a good magnifier. 



Amarantus carneus. Monoecious, glabrous, prostrate form- 

 ing a mat 6 to 10 inches broad, the branches pinkish, the 

 gloraerules of flowers and lower face of leaves deep flesh- 

 pnrple ; plant leafy and floriferous throughout : leaves 

 obovate-lanceolate, entire, setose-tipped, | to | inch long, 

 tapering to a short petiole ; bracts ovate-acuminate and 

 setose-tipped : utricle smooth : seed black and shining, i 

 line wide.. 



Beaver Canon, Idaho, 1 Aug., 1889, associated with the new 

 Euphorbia Greeiiei. An attractive little herb on account of 

 its rich flesh-purple color. It is a near ally, nevertheless, of 

 the coarse and homely A. Uitoides. And this last, I may 

 liere remark, is already in California, having been found by 

 ^e at Niles, in 1888, and near Suisun, 1889 ; in both places 

 growing along the railroad, and thus evincing its immigration 

 from the interior territories where it is native. 



JuNcus UNClALis. Annual, stoutish, barely an inch high, 

 ^vith only a few short subterete or somewhat ensiform radical 

 leaves : scapes strictly 1-flowered : flowers all 3-merous : 

 capsule little more than a line long, obtuse, apiculate, about 

 equalled but not surpassed by oblong acutish segments of the 

 perianth which are hyaline, with a strong green midrib : 



