286 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
Type collected by the author along the south side of Rodeo Lagoon, not 
far from the ocean, Marin County, California, July 4, 1905. The species seems 
to be isolated, as the number of plants is small and it is not elsewhere to be found 
in the region. It is also in danger of extermination on account of the improve- 
ments that are now going on in the vicinity of the military post 
This is most closely related to S. grandis Eastwood Sin Bodega Head, 
likewise a maritime species. It differs in having claret-colored flowers, a differ- 
ently shaped calyx, the simpler inflorescence, thinner and different leaves, and 
entire lack of the velvety pubescence so noticeable on S. grandis. A smaller 
and more slender plant. 
“Horkelia mollis, n. sp—Stems several, ascending from the 
sheathed caudex, red-purple, villous with fine silky spreading hairs, 
about 24" in height: radical leaves 6-9°™ long, less than 1°™ 
wide, the petiole less than half the entire length, often with a few 
scattered simple leaflets near the base; leaflets crowded towards 
the top, pinnately divided but apparently pedate on account of 
the lower divisions surpassing the upper, the divisions lincar-spatu- 
late, 3-4™™ long, finely villous; stipules adnate for 8™™, the free 
tips filiform-attenuate, about 4™™ long, villous; cauline leaves 
similar but with petioles becoming shorter as they ascend, stipules 
often incised and always broader than those on the radical leaves: 
flowers corymbose-capitate, terminating the stems, a few solitary 
ones or few-flowered clusters in the axils of the upper cauline leaves; 
hypanthium campanulate, 5™™ long, the bractlets linear, about 
as long as the subulate sepals; petals yellow, the blades broadly 
spatulate, 1™™ wide, a little longer, slightly shorter than the linear 
claw; stamens 15 in three rows; ovaries 5-20, glabrous, the slender 
styles tuberculate at base. 
The type is 4405 of Carl F. Baker’s distribution, collected by Culbertson 
July 19, 1904, at Hockett’s Meadows, Tulare County, California. In the her- 
barium of the California Academy of Sciences are specimens of the same, col- 
lected by the author along Volcano Creek in the same region, July 17, 1903. 
This species probably is most closely related to Horkelia campestris (Jones) 
Rydberg. A comparison with a duplicate of the type of the latter shows H. mollis 
to be a larger, more villous plant, the appendages of the hypanthium longer, the 
divisions more pointed, the petals more exserted and with blades orbicular 
and claws more pronounced. In general the flowers are larger. 
v STYRAX CALIFORNICA fulvescens, n. var.—Shrub a meter or 
so high, with stiff divaricate branches; older stems gray-black, 
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