DESCRIPTIONS AND NOTES FROM THE BOTANICAL GAZETTE. §25 
Rosa Nutxana, Presl, is common in Oregon and northward, but I have not met with it in California ; it is 
characterized by very broad and stout stipular and cauline _ which are icularly abundant on annual shoots, 
and by large single flowers and large globose or depressed fruit. R. Dwrandii, Crepin, from Oregon, appears to be a 
forin of this species with glandular calyx tube, which in the at is glabrous. 
Rosa PISIFORMIS, —— stands next to this and not to the following. Like it, it has well-developed stipular 
spines, but they are slender and more terete ; corymbs few-flowered, fruit smaller ; young shoots mostly densely 
covered with dark red- teil slender spines and spiny bristles, by which the plant can be distinguished at any time, 
even without flower or fruit. I found it from British Cebunbie down to the neighborhood of San Francisco and 
Monterey 
Rosa Catirornica, Cham. & Schl., a bush often 4-5 feet high, along streams, bears its flowers in large compound 
corymbs ; its annual shoots are glaucous, covered with stout straight or often curved or even hooked glaucous spines ; 
form of fruit variable, oblong or globose, with a more or less distinct contracted neck. — Common about San Franc cisco, 
thence northward to the Kintaate River and southward to Los Angeles and San Bernardino. 
Rosa aymnocarpa, Nutt., in the rich woods of the Oregon Coast Ranges, with stems 14-2 inches thick and 8 feet 
high, otherwise mostly a slender bush ; annual shoots densely covered with glaucous or gray bristly spines ; distin 
guished from all other roses, I believe, a its naked fruit (globose or elongated, sometimes pointed at both ends), teil 
which after flowering the united calyx lobes separate, bearing at their base the stamens. 
CAMPANULA SCABRELLA, 2. sp. — Several leafy stems from a stout rootstock, a few inches high, 1 to several- 
flowered, the whole plant canescently scabrous with very short rough pubescence; lowet tufted leaves spatulate, obtuse, 
attenuated below, stem leaves sessile, lanceolate, acutish ; flowers erect, lance-linear lobes of calyx as long as tube ; 
ovate-lanceolate lobes of corolla as long as its tube, scabrous outside ; style shorter than corolla ; capsule erect, dhlotig: 
10-angled, opening near the upper edge 
n bleak rocky of Scott Mountain, west of Mount Shasta, under scattered trees of Pinus alhicaulis and P. 
Balfouriana with Anemone Drummondii, Wats.,1 Veronica alpina, Polygonum Davisie, and the charming Epilobium 
obcordatum, in August. The thick tap-root penetrates 3 to 5 inches between the fragments ; lower 
leaves 1 inch long, the upper not much shorter; branches strictly erect, peduncles naked, flowers nearly $inch [238] 
ong. 
Distinguished from the closely allied C. uniflora by the habit, the canescence, and the form of the capsule. Care- 
ful study of abundant Sen tke that . ye will have to comprise all the forms from Colorado and Utah 
which have been named C sdor fiana C. Scheuchzeri, among them the specimens of Parry and of Hall with 
denticulate calyx lobes, and con ones eithaok by myself ; oe have erect elongated capsules tapering below, open- 
ing near the top; corolla divided nearly to the middle, often 1 inch wide ; stems 3 to 4 or 8 to 10 inches high, 1 to 4- 
flowered. True C. Scheuchzeri (or linifolia) comes from prey ; its similis lobes are short, } or less of the tube, the 
short ovate capsule is nodding and opens at base. The confusion arose in great part from the carelessness of collectors, 
who are mostly satisfied with nice flowers and neglect the less conspicuous fruiting specimens. Among several dozen 
specimens from the Rocky Mountains and Alaska, gathered by different collectors, I find only few with the character- 
istic capsules, and these I collected myself. Fruit and seed are such important organs that they ought always to be 
hunted up, and of every plant ; this necessity is well known in Composite and Umbellifere ; but it is true of all plants, 
and ought to be well borne in mind by collectors. Such neglect is one of the causes why the species of Vitis and 
especially the Cactacew were not better understood long ago. —[July, 1881, vol. vi.] 
STELLARIA OBTUSA, n. sp. — Glabrous, stems weak, prostrate, much branched, leaves subsessile, ie cant [5] 
ovate acute, smooth-edged 1-nerved and the delicate reticulated veins uniting into distinc + intramarginal nerves ; 
flowers single, pseudo-axillary, peduncles nearly as long as the leaves patulous or recurved in fruit, es ovate obtuse 
nerveless scarcely membranaceous on the margin, petals (always 7?) wanting; capsule ovate obtuse scarcely exsert, 
seeds (under the lens) covered with oblong linear peetinate tubercles, dark brown. — Western Colorado on the tribu- 
taries of Gunnison River, alt. 9,000 to 10,000 feet, in damp grounds, T. S. Brandegee. Cloeely allied to S. crispa of 
the northwest, but readily distinguished by the form of the sepals, the eapsule and the seeds; in that species the sepals 
are lanceolate, broadly margined and 3-nerved, the capsule exsert, acutish, the seeds larger, reddish and nearly smooth. 
S. borealis, with which crispa has sometimes been united, has a similar calyx, capsule and seeds, but is distinguished by 
its elongated lance-linear leaves, rg serrulate on the edge, the intramarginal nerve very indistinct. 
AMPANULA PLANIFLORA, n. sp. — Erect, glabrous, a fin from a filiform rootstock bearing 
similar subterranean stolons, Sale 1- ae leaves lanceolate to Ss ae 1 to 2 inches long, 2-3 lines 
1 Well distinguished from A. multifida, not only by its larger fruit and long style, but also by the oval, not circular, out- 
line of the more finely divided leaves, the terminal division of which is long stiped, not sessile. 
