New or Noteworthy Sp 



IX. 



Sagittapja Sanfordi. Herbage glabrous, of a pale yellow- 

 ish green : pliyllodes 3 to 5 feet liigb, very stout (often 1| 

 inches thick toward the base), obtusely triquetrous through- 

 out, with or .without a rudimentary lamina ; this wlien 

 present, 2 or 3 inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, and 

 with 4 or 6 manifest veins running parallel to the midrib : 

 scape stout, many-flowered ; raceme ample, large-flowered : 

 filaments dilated, shorter than the anthers ; achenes very 

 numerous in a large depressed head, cuneate-quadrate, with 

 a short triangular beak ; both margins, as well as one or more 

 of the lateral angles, scarious-winged. 



A coarse aquatic very abundant in the sloughs of the lower 

 8an Joaquin about Stockton, California; there associated 

 with S. variahilis, the two forming masses apart from each 

 other, the yellow-green phyllodes of the new one deceiving 

 the eye to the extent of having long passed with us for the 

 foliage of the common Spargamum of the region. Dedicated 

 to Mr. J. A. Sanford, a resident of Stockton, who is greatly 

 augmenting our knowledge of the vegetation of a peculiar 

 district which had l)een too long neglected. 



Lathyrus Jepsoni. From 5 to 8 feet high, the stems 



strongly winged along the angles and striate between them : 

 herbage nearly or quite glabrous : leaflets 8 to 12, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, 2 or 3 inches long, coriaceous, conspicuously 

 venulose : stipules small and narrow, setaceously acuminate : 

 peduncles stout, about equalling the leaves (often a foot long) : 

 flowers rose-purple, changing to a deeper color : calyx-teeth 

 . m-ate-lanceolate, the lower not greatly elongated : corolla 

 f inch long, relatively broad : pod 2 or 3 inches long, sessile 

 m the calyx, 12- to 16-seeded. 



Common along the muddy margins of tide-water sloughs in 

 the Smsun marshes, also toward Stockton ; long known to 

 the author, recently collected bv Mr. Jensnt, 



