456 BOTANICAL GAZETTE - [JUNE 
linear: sterile filament glabrous; anthers short-ciliate along the 
line of dehiscence and bearing a few long woolly hairs near the 
filament: capsule longer than the sepals; seeds gray, irregularly 
cubical, sharply angled, 1-2" long, the surface slightly pitted. 
Snow mountain, California, above 7000 ft. altitude, Dr. C. A. 
Purpus, July 1894, nos. 1157, 1259. 
The dark purple stems, sepals, and bracts, with the bright violet flowers 
serve to make this one of the handsome species. 
PENTSTEMON Razzi Regel var. violaceus, n. var.—Puberulent 
below and short pubescent above, not glandular and but slightly 
viscous about the calyx: stems numerous from a woody root, 
15 high: thyrsus narrow and corolla little ampliate, dark violet: 
seeds irregular in shape, somewhat rugose, slightly pitted, smooth 
upon the larger face: capsule longer than the calyx, 
Oriental, Gold mountain, Nevada, Dr. C. A. Purpus, no. 5995. 
The purple stems and calyx and dark violet corollas give to the broad 
clumps of this species a pleasing effect. 
Abronia alpina, n. sp.— Perennial (?), prostrate-spreading, 
forming mats about 20” in diameter, viscid-pubescent: leaves 
orbicular or slightly elongated, 3-5™" in diameter, on petioles 
10-15"" long: involucres on peduncles 5—6™™ long, divided to 
the base into four or five narrowly ovate acuminate bracts Fk et 
long, about five-flowered: perianth rose-colored to white, 
12-15"™" long, salverform with narrow tube; the short lobes 
deeply obcordate, spreading to 8—-g™ wide: fruit 3-4"" long, 
narrowed to both ends, thin coriaceous, obtusely or acutely five- 
angled, glabrous, tuberculate-veiny. 
In Monatchy meadows of Mt. Whitney, at an elevation S 
7000-8000 ft., and at Templeton near the craters, growing in 
loose granite sand, Dr. C. A. Purpus, nos. 1877, 1497- 
An exceedingly handsome compact species, bearing so many flowers that 
the leaves are nearly hidden. 
Eriogonum formosum, n. sp. (Z. giganteum Wats. var. formosum 
K. Brandg.3 )—Sometimes but not commonly branching from 
the base: leaves densely white-tomentose on both sides, more or 
3 Erythea 5 : 79. 
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