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NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.—XVI. 
By Epwarp L. GREENE. 
Clarkia virgata. Allied to C. rhomboidea, but almost 
cinereously puberulent throughout, and 2 or 3 feet high, with 
long suberect virgate branches rather densely floriferous 
throughout: leaves not thin, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 1 
inch long or more: petals 4 lines long, rhombic-ovate, 
usually obscurely 3-lobed, retuse or emarginate, purple, 
dotted in the middle with dark red, the broad claw usually 
toothed: capsule 1 inch long, taper-pointed, scarcely 
incurved. 
Species known to me only from Sonoma and Amador 
Counties, California, the collectors Mr. Bioletti and Mr. 
Hansen. The description of C. rhomboidea in the State 
Survey Botany seems made to cover both that species and 
this; but that has few ample thin leaves, few and scattered 
flowers, entire petals, and a pod which is short and stout as 
well as incurved almost to the semicircular. 
Eriophyllum obovatum. Stem a foot high from a 
perennial root; branches few, stout, erect or ascending from 
a decumbent base, leafy up to the monocephalous terminal 
peduncles; only the lowest leaves opposite, and all, together 
with the branches, peduncles and involucres, densely white- 
tomentose: leaves all entire, an inch long or more, from 
obovate-spatulate to broadly oblanceolate: heads large, 
hemispherical; involucral bracts broad and few, apparently 
united toward the base: rays light yellow: corolla-tube 
glandular-hispidulous: achenes glabrous: pappus conspicu- 
ous, of about 8 very unequal palew, the longest being 
lanceolate, remotely lacerate-toothed, the others very short 
and obscure. 
On the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California, 
at an altitude of about 5,000 feet, W. G. Wright and others; 
ErytHea, Vol. IIT., No. 8 [15 August, 1895]. 
