NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 39 
no very near relative south of Alaska and the Olympic 
Mountains; and perhaps nearest C. aurita, Greene, of those 
regions. The calyx in C. Wilkinsiana is destitute of auricles 
or appendages. 
v PYROLA PALLIDA. Near P. picta, but smaller, the foliage 
altogether of a pale glaueous green and not mottled: leaves 
from obovate and obtuse to almost elliptical, subcoriaceous 
and with a narrow eutire callous margin: raceme rather 
dense; petals greenish, distinctly 3-nerved. 
Common on dry mountain sides, in the pine belt of the 
inner ranges of northern California and Oregon ; the species 
well represented by Mr. Cusick's n. 1714 of his East Oregon 
collection of 1897, and also by my own 933 distributed from 
near Yreka, in 1876, both sent out under the name of P. picta. 
Dr. C. Hart Merriam has lately shown it to me as collected 
by himself on Red Cone, near Mt. Shasta, July, 1898, and 
his insistence upon it as a plant wholly distinet from P. 
picta has led me to examine into its characters, with the 
result of my coming to a fall agreement with him in his 
opinion. P. picta is a plant of the moist woods that lie 
along the northwestern seaboard; and its large dark green 
but strongly white-blotched leaves are in vivid contrast with 
those of this denizen of the dry interior. 
v PHAcELIA FRIGIDA. Dwarf tufted but erect perennial, 
the short erown or caudex clothed with persistent dead 
leaves of preceding seasons; leaves crowded around the 
base of the short peduncles and on sterile lateral shoots, all 
simple and entire, with elliptic plicate-veined and silvery- 
strigulose blade of less than an inch in length, and a stout 
hirsute petiole as long: calyx-segments linear, hispid with 
scattered white bristles and destitute of other pubescence: 
corollas subcylindric, little surpassing the calyx, apparently 
whitish, stamens and styles exserted : capsule by abortion 
1-seeded 
