52 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
numerous fine sessile glands, the upper one-third divided into 3 lobes 
with the middle one usually broader and longer; smaller leaves linear 
to lanceolate and entire; axillary leaves few, short and inconspicuous, 
not fascicled: average bract 2°™ long, strongly 3-nerved, divided to 
below the middle into 3 strap-like purple-red entire segments; these 
are obtuse or rounded, glandular and pubescent especially on the 
outer surface above the middle: calyx tubular, 15™™ long, 4-nerved, 
glandular pubescent, the bilabiate part 5™™ long, each bearing acute 
teeth 2™™ long; galea 2°™ long, slightly curved, slit half way down, 
apex narrowly truncate or faintly 3-toothed, exterior apical section 
glandular, middle part pubescent, glabrous at base; lower lip repre- 
sented merely by 3 broad and short lobe vestiges: stamens 4, the two 
inner ones slightly shorter; filaments separate, thread-like, inserted 
upon the corolla tube beneath the throat; anthers approximate, 
included by the galea, the two cells unequal in length, united above 
the middle, distinct below: style slender, gradually enlarging toward 
the apex, exceeding the galea by 2™™, bearing a 2-lobed flattened 
stigma: capsule ascending,.15™™ long, ovoid to lanceoloid, slightly 
dorsiventrally compressed, acute or acuminate. 
Cliffs and in rock crevices on the summit of Mt. Gleason, near Acton, Los - 
Angeles county, California, June 1902. Type specimen, no. 3659, in Herb. 
Stanford University. 
This “paint-brush” or “‘red-hot-poker,” as I have heard it called, is neither 
the early flowering C. foliolosa H. & A. of the seacoast nor.the glandular southern 
C. Martini Abrams. 
Eriogonum baratum, n. sp.—Annual, 3~5°™ high, erect, mostly 
single: stems glaucescent, purptish at base, straight and erect, one- 
ae the height of the plant, terete, of the same thickness throughout; 
‘anches 1-5 at a whorl, smooth and also glaucescent, ascending, 
mately widely branching, subtended by 3 acuminate smooth 
oe _ coriaceous bracts 1-2™™ long: leaves all radical, longer ones 
bs long, includjng the woolly petiole 2°™ long which is perceptibly 
. ee expanded at base; blade proper Se long, ovate to broadly elliptic 
