66 ERYTHEA. 
hairs: corolla light salmon-color, campanulate, the petals 
joined at base into a short tube: anthers opening only by a 
pair of large round terminal pores. 
High mountains of Washington and British Columbia; 
hitherto confused with the typical species, but so distinct as 
to be worthy of subgeneric rank; the corolla being sym- 
petalous, and the dehiscence of the anthers very different 
from that shown in C. pyroleflorus; for in this last these 
open laterally for about half their length, the terminal open- 
ing being narrow and elongated. The corollas also in this 
are choripetalous and expand to the rotate; and the flowers 
are borne terminally, on branches of the season. Good 
specimens of the original species, sent me from Alaska by 
Mr. M. W. Gorman, enable me to compare and define the 
new one. 
Phacelia thermalis. Near P. ciliata, but low, branched 
from the base, the decumbent branches only a span long: 
the slightly clammy herbage roughish with a rather dense 
strigose pubescence and some short bristly hairs: leaves 
somewhat lyrately pinnatifid, the lobes rather few, crenate: 
spikes 2 or 3 inches long, rather dense: corolla small, open- 
campanulate, scarcely exceeding the calyx, pale blue or white: 
stamens not exserted: fruiting calyx much enlarged, the 
sepals 4 or 5 lines long, oblong-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 
venulose, hispid-ciliate: seeds favose. 
Little Hot Spring Valley, Modoe Co., Calif.. 4 June, 1894, 
Baker & Nutting, Related to the middle Californian P. 
ciliata as P. ceerulea to P. crenulata. 
Cryptanthe crinita. Annual, rather slender, 8 to 12 
inches high, somewhat fastigiately branched from the base: 
branches and linear leaves rather stiffly hirsute: spikes both 
elongated and very dense, the rachis slender: calyx about £ 
lines long, densely white-hirsute, the indument almost con- 
eealing the narrowly linear sepals: nutlet solitary, ovoid, 
abruptly acuminate, 14 lines long, the surface dull-brown, 
quite smooth, but not polished. 
