NEW SPECIES OF CALIFORNIAN PLANTS. 423 



Anemone Calif ornica n. sp. Plate liv. 



Slender, from 10-14 cm. high, villous-canescent, with 

 soft, silky hairs; stem almost glabrous; the lowest leaves 

 with petioles sheathing and scarious at base for about 3^ 

 cm. (the scarious part is 5 mm. wide, parallel-veined and 

 densely white-villous on the margin), petioles 1 cm. long 

 above the dilated base; the other radical leaves are on 

 slender petioles 2-4 cm. long; blade orbicular-ovate in 

 outline, biternately compound, with palmately cleft, un- 

 equal, linear divisions which unite into leaflets cuneate 

 at base; involucral leaves 3, pedately compound, on 

 petioles 2-4 mm. broad, 8 mm. long, ultimate divisions 

 linear, acute, 4-9 mm. long, 1 mm. broad: flowers pur- 

 plish blue, 3-4 cm. in diameter; sepals 6-8, villous on 

 the back, especially on the median line, obovate, 18 mm. 

 long, 8 mm. wide; stamens numerous, on slender fila- 

 ments; carpels 40-50 on a conical receptacle; akenes 

 somewhat white-villous, falcately club-shaped; style 

 naked, 2 mm. long (immature), curved at the apex and 

 slightly glandular. 



This Anemone belongs to the Section Euanemone, but 

 in habit resembles A. occidentalis , Watson, of the preced- 

 ing section, though not so tall. The naked styles, how- 

 ever, remove it from that section. There is often a sec- 

 ond flower, also with involucre, as shown in the figure. 



Mr. J. R. Scupham, a member of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, is the discoverer of this rare Anemone. 

 He collected it on a mountain near Lot's Lake, in the 

 neighborhood of Golden Summit Mountain, at the ex- 

 treme western portion -of Plumas County on the Butte 

 County line, north of the North Fork of Feather River. 

 The type material is in the Herbarium of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



