222 DROSERACEiE. Cotyledon. 



4 inches long, very ac-uLu : flowering brandies a sikui high or often less, with scut- • 

 tered broadly ovate to lanceolate clasping leaves : inflorescence a rather close and 

 short conipuimd cyme ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, rather large ; pedicels stout, 1 to 3 

 lines long : sepals broailly lanceolate, about 3 lines long : petals yellow, oblong- 

 lanceolate, mostly acuminate, \ to G lines long : cari)el3 ovate-oblong, about 3 lines 

 long. — Baker, 1. c, t. 71. A'chevtria fariuosa, LindU in Jour, llort. ISoc. iv. 21)2. 



Mt. Camiel {JIartwcij) ; Paoheco's Peak (Brewer) ; Knight's Ferry, Bigclow. It probably also 

 includes a more northern I'onn with longer pedicels, collected on the upper tiibutaries of the 

 Saciainento {Fremont), at Sonoma (Biyel-jw), and also by Bridges. It seems to be a variable 

 species, distinguished from the last by its more lanceolate and narrowly acute less farinose leaves, 

 shorter llowei ing blanches, longer scpilk, and shorter carpels. A cultivated specimen at Cambiidge 

 has very large bracts, much exceeding the pedicels. 



5. C. CcGBpitOSa, llaworth. Acaulescent or nearly so, glabrous : rosulate leavtis 

 "glauctius-giceii," Dvate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, the larger 1^ to 3 inches 

 long; llowering branches G to 12 inches high, with broadly triangular-ovate clasp- 

 ing leaves : inllorescence a short and rather close conii)Ound cyme ; bracts broad and 

 rather large; i)edicels short and stout: sepals ovate, 2 lines long or less: petals 

 yellow, broailly lanceolate, acute, 4 or 5 lines long : carpels ovate-oblong, nearly 3 

 lines long. — Misc. A'at. 180; DC. liar. PI. Oenev. 50, t. 14; Baker, \. c, t. Gy. 

 Sedimi Cotykdoti, Jac(p Eclog. i. t. 17; lleichenb. llort. Bot. ii. 10, t. 125. 



Near San Francisco and northward, lirst collect.td by Moizics and cultivated at the Kew Gar- 

 dens in UUO ; near Clear l.ako (Turret/) ; also from (Jibbons and Pickering. 



G. C. laxa, Benth. 6i Hook. Nearly acaulescent, very glaucous: rosulate leaves 

 lanceolate, sharply acuminate, the larger 3 or 4 inches long or more : llowering 

 branches a foot or two high, slender, with scattered leaves, the lower usually nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, the upper shorter and broader : inflorescence of 2 to 4 simple 

 secund racemes 3 to 5 inches long ; floral bracts .small ; pedicels 2 or 3 lines long : 

 sepals ovate, acute, 2 lines long or more : ])etals yellow, oblongdanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, 5 to 7 lines long : carjjels ovate-oblong, 4 lines long. — Echeveria laxa, 

 Lindl. in Jour. llort. Soc. iv. 292. Cotyledon Call/ornica, Baker, 1. c, t. 70. 



Near Monterey (llttrtiroj); Cajoii Pass (/;/(/(•/.///') ; <>» dry rocks in IhoGavilan Ihmgo (Brewer) ; 

 Ft. Tojoii (Xoiitus) ; rocky hills' back of Sanla Karliaia, Uutltrock: Some of the latter specimens 

 liavo reddish llowers, and the mature carpels are linear-oblong. 



7. C. Nevadensis, Watson. Acaulescent, glaucous : rosulate leaves obovate to 

 oblanceolate, somewhat rhomboidal, acute or acuminate, the larger 2 to 4 inches 

 long: flowering branches G to 10 inches high, with scattered lanceolate to broadly 

 triangular acute leaves : inflorescence a rather close spreading comi)ound cyme ; 

 bracts small ; pedicels 3 to U lines long : sepals ovate, acute, 2 lines long or less : 

 petals lanceolate, acute, 5 lines long, yellow tinged with red : carpels very short, 

 ovate-oblong, 3 lines long in fruit. 



Hillsides and rocky places, Sonora (Bigclow) ; Yosemite VaUey, Torrcy, Oray. 



Order XXXVI. DROSERACE^. 



Herbs, growing in bogs, or rarely aipiatic, most resembling Saxifrayen' in habit 



and structure, and seemingly somewhat connecteil with that tribe through J'aruassia, 



but with petals and stamens hypogynous or nearly so, anthers commonly extrorse, 



and the leaves provided with secreting glands of some kind, which appear to be in 



some way subservient to the capture of insects. 



A small order of five very small and local "cnera and one rather large and widely dilhiscd one : 

 represented in N. America only by the wonderful Dioncca, or Venus's Fly-trap, of North Caro- 

 lina, and by a few species of the principal genus, Drosent. 



