118 ERYTHEA. 
flowered: stamens 6, in 2 series: fruits bluntly trigonous, 
not ribbed, 2-24 lines long, 14 line broad, ascending, on pedi- 
cels nearly the same length; cocce 6, free, all fertile. 
Abundant in the salt marshes around San Francisco Bay, 
Calif., together with 7. maritima; my No. 1116. Type 
specimens in the herbaria of the University of California 
and of Professor Greene. In drying for the herbarium the 
coces are apt to become canaliculate on the back, and the 
shape of the fruit is entirely destroyed. 
SPHHZRALCEA ANGUSTIFOLIA, G. Don, var. violacea. Size, 
aspect and general habit of Gray’s var. cuspidata, but 
pubescence coarser and, on the stem, less abundant; brac- 
teoles darker colored and much longer, in fact exceeding the 
buds, and in anthesis exceeding the calyx tube, corolla violet- 
My No. 36, collected at Painted Cave railroad station on the 
banks of the Rio Grande, Texas, March 12, 1893. Type 
specimen in the herbarium of the University of California. 
NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.—XYV. 
By Epwarp L. GREENE. 
Delphinium leucopheum. Slender, erect, simple, 2 
feet high, from a cluster of short and thick tuberiform roots; 
the whole plant puberulent, the stem retrorsely so: cauline 
leaves divided into 5 linear-cuneiform 3-cleft segments, all 
linear and callous-tipped: raceme rather long and loose, the 
pedicels all about an inch long or somewhat less: sepals 
rather small, oblong and obovate, yellowish white, the spur 
long, straight, ascending, acutish: lower petals conspicuously 
woolly-hairy, colored like the petals, the upper apparently 
dark blue or purple: follicles rather short, erect, puberulent: 
seeds small, elongated cubical, sharply angled. 
Specimens in herb. Calif. Acad., said to have been collected 
somewhere in Oregon, by T. S. Brandegee. 
