NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 171 



Obtained in the Grand Cauon of the Tuolumne River, Cali- 

 fornia, in the summer of 1890, by Messrs, Victor Chesnut and 

 Elmer Drew. A fine species, but adding another to the list 

 of plants which are perplexingly ambiguous between Asier 

 and Erigeron. This looks somewhat like a smaller and mono- 

 aphalous Erigeron Breweri; but the involucre is imbricate 

 as in Asier. 



Arctostaphylos patula. Diffusely but somewhat irregu- 

 larly and flexuoasly brancliiug from the base, 3 or 4 feet 

 high ; stem and branches with a smooth red-brown close and 

 not exfoliating bark : young twigs and the foliage glabrous, 

 without bloom : leaves oval, entire, obtuse or acutish, mostly 

 truncate or slightly cordate at base, 1 to If inches long, freely 

 spreading or even somewhat peudulous (never vertical) on 

 the petioles, these 4 to 6 lines long : racemes simple or 

 slightly branching ; the peduncle and small broadly subulate 

 bracts glandular-puberulent : corolla short-subcylindrical, of 

 a rich deep pink color : fruit (immature) depressed-globose ; 

 nutlets apparently coalescent iuto a deeply 5-lobed body. 



The common manzanita of dry rocky ridges in pine woods 

 of middle altitudes in the Sierra Nevada, California, from 

 Calaveras Co. southward to Fresno ; apparently not known 

 to Dr. Parry ; well marked in the character of its loose half- 

 pendulous foliage, aud deeply colored flowers. 



Arctostaphylos media. Diffusely branching, the main 

 divisions of the stem procumbent, a foot or two long ; leafy 

 branches ascending or erect, less than a foot high : leaves 

 obovate-cuneiform, about an inch long exclusive of the short 

 petiole, obtuse, puberulent beneath : racemes terminal, sub- 

 sessile, few-flowered : fruit globose, slightly depressed, 3 or 

 4 lines broad ; nutlets 5 to 7, firmly consolidated. 



Native of Washington; communicated by Mr. Charles \. 

 Piper, who says of it : "It is found rather sparingly on dry 

 gravelly ground in Mason County, where both A. iomeniosn 

 and uva-ursi are very abundant, and always in a position to 



