112 _ ERYTHEA. 
late, its subulate teeth about equalling the tube; banner far 
exceeding the wings and twice the length of the keel, entire: 
pod of firm texture, sessile, obliquely ovate, acuminate, 4 
inch long or less, finely appressed-pubescent. 
In loose voleanic soil near the base of Mount Adams; col- 
lected by W. N. Suksdorf, and described by him as A. 
Pulsifere. 
TWO CALIFORNIAN CRYPTOGAMS. 
By MarsHaut A. Howe. 
Fimbriaria nudata. Thallus with a broad purple margin, 
obcordate, or often with an angular sinus and narrow diver- 
gent lobes; scales extending beyond the margin and inflexed 
at the apical notch; peduncle naked, light brown, 14 to 24 
em. high; carpocephalum rather large, ovate or obtusely 
conic, scarcely lobed, capsules 2 to 6 (commonly 3 or 4); inner 
involucre white, sub-globose, 8 to 12-cleft, constricted at the 
base of the clefts, segments cohering at the apices; spores 
dark, becoming black, angular, warty-rugose, 57 to 74 mic. in 
diameter; elaters bi-tri-spiral. 
A single fruiting specimen of the above plant was found 
by the writer in Mill Valley, Marin County, California, April 
12, 1892. It has since been collected by George Hansen near 
Jackson, Amador County, and by W. L. Jepson at St. Helena 
in Napa County. 
Fimbriaria nudata is evidently nearly related to F. Palm- 
ert, Aust., which occurs on Guadalupe Island off the coast of 
Lower California, but seems to be sufficiently differenced by 
having, most commonly, 10 or 11 divisions in the inner invo- 
lucre instead of eight and 3 or 4 capsules to the carpoce- 
phalum in place of the five of F. Palmeri. 
The carpocephalum of F. Palmeri is described as slightly 
constricted in the middle, while that of our plant, in the 
growing state, at least, shows nothing of this character. 
