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Cow Creek, Shasta Co., Calif., 25 May, 1894, M. 8. Baker. 
A species as peculiar in aspect as in character, and not 
intimately related to any other at present known. That the 
nutlets should be smooth but without vitreous polished sur- 
face is quite unusual. 
Mimulus subreniformis. Annual, erect, very slender, 
2 to 6 inches high, with few leaves and flowers and long 
internodes; stem distinctly quadrangular, glabrous: leaves 
2. to 5 lines broad and mostly broader than long, from reni- 
form to reniform-deltoid, with remote teeth and intervening 
denticulations, glabrous and purplish beneath, above rough- 
ish with short white setulose hairs, the lowest pair on rather 
long setulose-hairy petioles, the uppermost subsessile: pedi- 
cels exceeding the leaves: corolla very small, little exceeding 
the calyx-teeth, apparently yellow without red dots: fruiting 
calyx roundish, with very prominent upper lip, the pedicel 
beneath abruptly incurved. 
Burney Falls, Shasta Co., Calif., 30 May, 1894, Baker & 
Nutting. Diminutive species, allied to M. glareosus. 
Fritillaria agrestis. Stoutish, 12 to 20 inches high, 
from a close ovoid cluster of thick and subcylindraceous bulb- 
scales: leaves 6 to 12, the lowest in a whorl of 3, the others 
scattered: perianths 3 to 6, nodding, exactly campanulate, 
the segments somewhat rhombic-lanceolate, 1 inch long or 
more, greenish-white, but with prominent green midvein, and 
many green lines almost parallel with it: stamens much 
shorter than the pistil; anthers oblong, nearly basifixed: 
styles united toward the base only. 
Common in grain fields among the valleys of the Mt. 
Diablo Range, California; flowering in March. Plant very 
attractive on account of its fine raceme of large nodding light- 
green flowers; but the odor of these is indescribably bad. 
The species is most related to F. pluriflora, and like that, 
has sepals and petals quite destitute of tessellation. F. 
liliacea, another ally, has oblanceolate petals and sepals 
