148 ERYTHEA. 
very obtuse; those of the lower portion of the flowering 
branches linear-oblong, serrate above the middle, entire 
below and at the sagittate-clasping base; uppermost and 
floral leaves round-cordate or more elongated, remotely 
denticulate, obtuse: sepals purplish-green, subequal, their 
tips neither acuminate nor reflexed, though spreading: one 
pair of filaments connate, but all 4 anthers equal and fertile: 
pod recurved, barely 2 inches long. 
A remarkable species, found on Hood’s Peak, Sonoma Co., 
Calif., by Mr. Bioletti. 
Cardamine pulcherrima. Slender, 5 or 6 inches high 
from a rather slender horizontal rhizome; herbage glabrous, 
rather succulent; radical leaf solitary, palmately 3 to 5-lobed- 
parted or -divided, the lobes or divisions quite entire; the 
cauline leaf also solitary, situated very near the inflorescence, 
digitately 3 to 5-parted into oblong-linear or lanceolate seg- 
ments an inch long more or less: raceme short, few-flowered: 
petals nearly ? inch long, of a rich lilac-purple, with mani- 
fest veins of dark-purple: pod unknown. 
In eastern Oregon, near Mosier, 9 April, 1893, Thomas 
Howell. A most beautiful plant, and the only known species 
of the far West to display the proper rhizome of a genuine 
Dentaria. 
Cardamine sinuata. Perennial, tuberous-rooted, the 
sparingly leafy stem 10 to 14 inches high: radical leaf 
simple, from ronnd-reniform to almost orbicular, cordate at 
base, 2 or 3 inches broad, sinuately lobed, the 9 to 15 lobes 
obtuse or almost truncate, conspicuously mucronate; cauline 
leaves 2 or 3, divided into 3 to 5 more or less cuneate leaflets 
which are lobed or coarsely toothed at apex: raceme lax, few- 
flowered: corolla large, rose-purple: pods (immature) 1} 
inches long, conspicuously rostrate. 
Redwoods near Crescent City, in the extreme northwest of 
California, April, 1892, Thomas Howell. . 
Sidaleea parviflora. Stoutish, shank, 2to 4 feet high, 
nearly glabrous, only the stem a little glaucescent and with a 
