NEW OR NOTE\YORTHY SPECIES. 295 



Eriogoxum taxifolium, Greene, Pitt. i. 267. A much 

 larger and almost heath-like shrubby plant, copiously flor- 

 iferous, collected by Mr. Dunn, at Fish's ranch, San Diego 

 Co., Calif., Sept. 8, 1890, I take to be specifically identical 

 with the starved and inconspicuous plant from Cedros Island 

 to which I gave the above name. It is possible that this form 

 from San Diego Co. may have been made a part of the 

 unhappily confused E. Wright It of the Botany of the State 

 Survey. It is also to be remarked that if Dr. Torrey's E. 

 iracliijrjomim and Wrightii be not admitted as distinct, it is 

 the former name which must ba retained, as having the 

 precedence. 



Eriogonum Davidsonii. Annual, slender, erect, about a 

 foot high: leaves in a rosulate tuft at base of stem, round- 

 obovate to subreniform, abruptly narrowed to a long stoutish 



channelled petiole, densely lauate-tomentose on both faces, 



but especially beneath: stem glabrous and glaucescent 

 throughout, parted below the middle into few and slender 

 virgate branches: involucres sessile along the branches, 

 remote, rather few-tlowered and narrow, turbinate or almost 

 prismatic, a line long, rather prominently 5-toothed: perianth 

 pinkish or white, £ line long ; outer sepals spatulate-obovate, 

 the inner narrower, all more or less retuse. 



Mountains of Los Angeles and San Diego counties^^ Cali- 

 fornia ; the type specimens from Wilson Creek, Dr. A. 

 Davidson. Other specimens have been in my herbarium for 

 some years, and with much reluctance allowed to remain with 

 tliose of E. gracile, to which the species is more related 

 perhaps, than to any other; though the plant looks like what 

 a small and annual state of E. nudum might be if there were 

 such a form. 



EpiLOBiuir suBC.ESEUM. E. Oregrmnm, Greene, Pitt. i. 225, 

 not E. Oregonense, Ilausskn. Tlie earlier pub ication of Dr. 

 Haussknechts' homonym calls for the change thus suggested 

 in the case of my former E. Oregn,mm. My friend TroE. 



