62 ERYTHEA. 
GaLium TRIFIDUM, Linn., var. PUSILLUM, Gray. Frequent 
in meadows at Bluff Lake and Bear Valley. 
*PTILORIA MYRIOCLADA, Greene, Pitt. ii. 130. Colorado 
Desert, near Whitewater, Riverside Oo., alt. 1,500 ft. The 
root appears to be at most only biennial.2 
CicHortum Intyspus, Linn. Occasional in the streets of — 
San Bernardino. 
MATRICARIA OCCIDENTALIS, Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. ii. 150° 
Roadside at Highland, San Bernardino Co. Apparently 
recently introduced. In flower (May 2) at the same time 
with the common M. discoidea. 
Hymenorurix Wricutu, Gray, Pl. Wright. ii. 97. Pine 
Valley, San Diego Co.; Alderson. The root is said by Mr. 
Alderson to be perennial,* 
NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.—XII. 
By Epwarp L. Gruenz. 
Flerkea versicolor. Firmly erect, not very slender, 
glabrous, 4 to 8 inches high, with a basal tuft of erect leaves 
only 2 inches long, and of about 3 pairs of leaflets, these 
mostly simple, narrowly oblong, acutish, a few 3-parted: 
stems with few leafy bracts, the flowers almost corymbose: 
sepals rather broadly and somewhat ovately lanceolate, 
slightly acuminate, 3 or 4 lines long; petals more than twice 
as long, cream-color, changing to lilac-purple at the tips. 
Cedar Run, Shasta Co., Calif., 23 May, 1894, Baker & 
Nutting. 
2 There must be an error on Mr. Parish’s part as to the identity of 
this plant. P. myrioclada is even half-sbrubby, and could never be 
mistaken for a biennial.—x. 1. a. 
8 This was collected long ago, at Julian, San Diego Co. As I knew it 
in New Mexico it was a ways biennial; and so it is in the botanic 
garden at Berkeley.—z, 3. a. 
