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NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.—XIII. 
By Epwarp L. Greene. 
Ranunculus alceus. Less than a foot high, rather 
slender, freely branching, soft-hirsute and villous but not 
canescent: leaves only about 1 inch long, on slender petioles, 
of ovate general outline and in 3 divisions, the middle one 
stalked, all cuneiform and doubly cleft: flowers very small, 
the round-obovate petals 5 only, barely a line long: achenes 
rather numerous, obliquely obovoid, smooth, or with a faint 
venation, tipped with a stout recurved beak, and forming a 
globose head. 
Collected at an altitude of about 4,000 feet, on Elk Moun- 
tain, Mendocino Oo., Calif., July, 1892, by Mr. Jepson. 
Braya pectinata. Stems about 3 inches high, leafy 
throughout and erect, from a ligneous and partly subter- 
ranean branching caudex, the whole from a central per- 
pendicular root: whole plant pale and glaucescent, hispidu- 
lous with bristly hairs which are partly simple and erect, 
partly double and divergent: leaves 4 inch long, pinnatifid 
into about 7 narrowly linear segments: flowers in a short 
raceme: petals conspicuous, white, changing to rose-color: 
growing ovary linear-oblong, several-ovuled; style conspicu- 
ous: pod unknown. 
Ewing Creek, Modoe Co., Calif., May, 1894, Mrs. R. M. 
Austin. 
Erysimum Californicum. Biennial, stout and simple, 
or with few branches, 1 to 2} ft. high: herbage scarcely 
canescent, but thinly covered with closely appressed divided 
hairs, the divisions of which are stout and subulate: leaves 
runcinate-toothed, or the upper cauline mostly entire: raceme 
rather dense: flowers large, yellow, fading to cream-color, 
very fragrant, sepals more than 4 inch long, the inner with 
saccate base, the outer longer, unguiculate: limb of corolla 
Eryruga, Vol. ITI., No. 5 [1 May, 1895]. 
