2o6 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [septemrer 



cotyledons, less divided leaves, peculiar corolla-scales, and geographical 

 range. Where the ranges of the two varieties meet the)- intergrade (Leonis 

 valley, Davy : Casitas pass, Hall), 



Of the variety as described here, the type specimen is an extreme form,. 



having mostly entire leaves. 



Southern California. 



Speciviens exa7ntned : California: Elizabeth lake, Los Angeles co.^ 

 Haliuo, 3081 \ Antelope valley, Davy; Leonis valley, Z>a^y/; Pasadena, il/. 

 E, Jones; Santa Monica. Barber; Claremont, Illingworth, Sanborn; San 

 Bernardino mts., Hall, Parish no. 4196; Palomar, Hall no. I951 ; Ramona, 

 Brandegee ; San Jacinto m\s,, Hall no, 2266; Encinitas, El Volcan, and Point 

 Loma, San Uiego co., Brandegee ; Witch creek, San Diego co., Alderson; 

 Laguna woods, San Diego co., Cleveland ; San Diego, Eastwood {ty^t of N* 

 rotata). 



The type locality is Waterman canon, San Bernardino mountains, and the 



type specimen is in the herbarium of S. B. Parish^ at San Bernardino. 



10. N. SEPULTA Parish, Erythea 7:93. 1899. — ^^ Menziesii 

 miniitiflora Suksdorf, Deut. Bot. Monatsch. 18 : 133. 1900. N^ 

 deiua Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 466. (Mch. 21) 1901. N. nana 

 Eastwood, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28: 151 (Mch 27) 1901. N. 



exigua Eastwood, /. c. 157. N. 



Plant 



prostrate, or very rarely sub-erect : branches from mostly a few 

 centimeters to 4^"^ long, sometimes winged, sparingly pubescent : 

 cotyledons spatulate : leaves opposite, 2 to 5^"^ long, oblong in 

 outline, pinnate into 5 to 7 mostly oblong, rarely toothed divi- 

 sions: peduncles shorter or longer than the leaves, strongly 

 deflexed in age and sometimes burying the capsules : calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate, 2 to 5™"^ long; appendages from a third to 

 three-fourths as long, spreading or reflexed : corolla open-cam- 

 panulate, the lobes longer than the tube, 3 to 7"^™ across, white^ 

 often dotted with blue toward the center; scales linear or 

 reduced to hairy lines: style from once to twice as long as the 

 ovary, divided for a third or a half its length: capsule globose, 

 3 to 6°^°^ in diameter: seeds usually about 4 per capsule, irregu- 

 larly elongated-globose, 2 to 3"""^ long, coarsely pitted and 

 minutely scabrous (when typical), scaly ; the caruncle cap-like. 

 Plate L 



This species is very close to the succeeding and also shows affinity with 



