2o8 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [September 



marked chiefly by its often shallowly 5-lobed leaf, which is ovate in outline, 

 and its few seeds (2 to 4 per capsule). The type came from Davis creek, 

 Modoc county, California, M?'s, Aiisibiy and specimens C(-^llected by the 

 writer at Marble mountain, Siskiyou county, are similar. The form should 

 be observed for other characters. 



From Washington to Lower California. 



Specimens examined: Washington: Klickitat co., S2£ksdorf nos. 262,7* 



2638. 



Oregon : Dalles city, Siiksdorf no. 2639. 



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Marble int., Siskiyou co., Chandler x\o%. 1649 ^"^^ 1706: Susanville, Lassen 

 CO., Bra7tdege€ ; San Francisco, Kellogg {xy^^^ of N. Juunifiisd), Chajxdler wo, 

 1800; Coyote creek, Santa Clara co., Chandler no. 929; Island of Santa 

 Cruz, Brandegee ; Santa Inez mts., Brandegee ; Porterville, Tulare co., 

 Dudley. 



Lower California : Japa valley, Orctitt no. 1 128, in part. 



The type locality is the Columbia river and the type specimens are in the 

 herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. 



12. N. spatulata Coville, Bot. Death valley. 156. 1893- 

 N. inconspiciia Eastwood, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28: 144' IQO^' 

 not N. ificonspicua Henderson. N, pratensis Eastwood, ibid. 

 29:474. 1902. — Closely related to N. pedttnadata, but differ- 

 ing in the following particulars : leaves spatulate in outline, 

 3 to 5- toothed or -lobed only at the tip, with long cuneate 

 base : corolla often with a purple spot at the tip of each lobe 

 and a few dots at the center ; scales small and laciniate or obso- 

 lete : style sometimes scarcely evident : seeds fewer (mostly 3 



or 4) per capsule ; caruncle cap-like, without a prolongation at 



one side. 



The type specimen is itself an intergrade and dangerously near N. pedun- 

 culata. At the other extreme the variation is toward ^V. mactdafa, which it 

 approaches in leaves and corolla markings. 



Southern Sierra Nevada and Sax Jacinto mountain, California. 



Specimens exa?nined: California : Sierra Nevada mts., Fresno co., 

 Hall &^ Chandler nos. 104, 411 and 423; Bearskin meadow, South fork 

 King's river, Eastwood (type of N. inconspiciia Eastwood) ; Sierra Nevada 

 mts., Tulare co., Death valley expedition nos. 1522 and 1671 (type); San 

 Jacinto mt., Hall no 2406. 



"Type specimen m the United States National Herbarium, no. 1671, 



