BRIEFER ARTICLES 
SOME HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED PLANTS FROM OREGON ~ 
Mr. Wir11am C. Cusick has submitted to the writer for determination — 
an interesting series of castillejas and senecios, collected by him during — 
the past few years in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon. r 
The material is copious and for the most part falls readily into well-known” 
species. There are, however, a few plants which do not satisfacto 
accord with any described species; these may be here characterized 
follows: 
Castilleja chrysantha, n. sp.—Herbacea perennis tota planta elandul 
villosa: caulibus erectis vel ascendentibus 0.5-34™ altis: foliis lineari- E 
lanceolatis vel lanceolatis vel interdum subovatis 1-3°™ longis 1. 5-10" : 
latis integris vel trifidis trinerviis crispo-hirsuto-glandulosis, laciniis lineari- . 
bus acutis patentibus; inflorescentiis spicatis 1.5 to 142™ longis; bractels 
anguste lanceolatis vel lanceolatis integris vel trifidis flavo-viridibus vel pon 
rarius paululo purpurascentibus; calyce 13-18™™ longo antice et post 
oe fisso ad circiter medio altitudinem connato, laciniis oblon: 
ascentibus; corolla 16-20™™ longa flava; galea recta 4-6™™ longa; 
2.5-3™™ longum, labii lobis oblongo-ovatis obtusis calycem superantibuss Bi. 
capsula oblongo-elliptica circiter 8"™ longa breviter acuminata glabra. 
In wet meadows at the head of West Eagle Creek, Wallowa Moule 
Oregon, altitude 2135™, 15 August, 1907, William C. Cusick, no. 320° BA 
hb. Field Mus. Cat. no. 225021); in moist soil near the source of the me 
C 
Wallowa Mountains, altitude 2440™, 14 August, 1906, William 
no. 3124 (hb. Field Mus.); on dry mountain sides, Kettle Creek, Oregon, 
tude 1830™, July, 1906, William C. Cusick, no. 31032 (hb. Field Mus.); aa io 
meadows, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon, altitude 2135™, 19 August, 1997) 
C. Cusick, no. 3205+ (hb. Field Mus.); source of the Wallowa River, 4" 
2440™, 15 August, 1908, William C. Cusick, no. 3324¢ (hb. Field wos 
subalpine prairie of the Wallowa Mountains, 28 August, 1898, W: William C. 
no. 2110 (hb. Field Mus.), distributed as “‘Castilleia — Greenman, 
flowered form.” ‘ 
The habit and glandular pubescence of this species suggests @ close rela 
ship to C. viscidula Gray and. C. Covilleana Henderson. From the obits 
C. chrysantha differs in having a longer calyx with oblong and. rounded oF 
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