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Snow Cafion, soooft alt., San Bernardino Mts., 5060 Parish, June 20, 
igor. Near D. reflexa Rydb., fzom which it differs in its smaller size, 
| _ pubescence, and spreading sepals ind petals. 
_TRIFOLIUM MONANTHUM TENERU 4. 1’. monanthum Eastw. Bull. Torr. 
Bot. Club 29:81.—In meadows, at h‘gh altitudes in the San Bernardino 
Mts., Bluff Lake, 7400 alt., 3309 Harish, June 1894; Vivian Cafion, 
6343 Geo. B. Grant, July 1904. 
Hosack1a Torreyi Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8:625.—Little Bear Val- 
- Key, 5500 alt., San Bernardino Mts., Mrs. H. E. Wilder, September 1904. 
o GONIUM AUSTRALE CLANDESTINUM Hook. Fl. N. Zea. 37. P. 
_ dandestinum L’ Her. ex DC. Prodr. 1:660, as synonym.—Santa Ana, 
_ Orange co., Rev. J. C. Nevin, 1904. Perhaps only adventive, or casual, 
___ butofinterest as the second species of this genus collected in North America. 
9. The previously reported species is also from California, having been col- 
__ kected near San Francisco by Miss Eastwood. Identified by Dr. GREENMAN. 
Rus ciasra Linn. Sp. Pl. 265.—Chino Cafion, near Palm Springs, 
_ atthe desert base of San Jacinto Mt., November 1903, H. E. Hasse. Dr. 
Hasse’s interesting find adds the first true sumac to the state flora, the 
‘Previously known species belonging to other sections of the genus. This 
_ ‘lation becomes the western limit of the species. 
pe Gentiana viridula, n. sp.—Annual: stem leafy, erect, simple, or few 
® branched, 3-6°™ tall: leaves narrowly scarious-margined, the lowest 
- mrbicular, apiculate, 5™™ in diameter; the upper narrowly oblong, 5"™ 
long, obtuse, connate-sheathing: flowers solitary, terminal: corolla funnel- 
: form, 5mm long; the lobes greenish, acute; the plaits at the sinuses blue, 
_ %ne-toothed: anthers oblong; filaments 1™™ long: capsule (immature) 
obovate, on a stout stipe 3™™ long.—Growing at the edge of water at Be 
head of the South Fork of the Santa Ana River, 8500" alt., San Bernardino 
4 Mts. Mrs. H. E. Wilder, June 1904. § CHONDROPHYLLA Bunge, and 
_ ‘hear G. prostrata Haenke. 
__ Mentwa crrrata Ehrh. Beitr. 7:150.—Well established along Town 
feek, near San Bernardino, September 1904. In the M anual of the Bay 
\egion, Greene reports this mint from West Berkeley. Apparently it 1s 
Tather rare in the older states. 
Aster defoliatus, n. sp.—About 1™ tall, minutely hispid above: stem 
“aves unknown, early deciduous; those of the pedicels narrow and bract- 
: like, pungent, 3-8°™ long: heads in a loose elongated raceme, aoe or 
“ately 2 or 3 at the ends of the elongated leafy pedicels, small, 8° high 
‘nd somewhat broader; bracts narrow, the green tips not much enlarged, 
: loosely imbricated in a few series: rays about 40, light violet: achenes 
