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Juncus saximontanus Wiks. var. robustior var. nov. 

 Stouter than the species; stem and leaves strongly compressed, 

 the blades 5-8 mm. wide, the auricles wanting; heads con- 

 gested into 1 — 2 close clusters, large and many-flowered; 

 stamens about half as long as the perianth, the filaments 

 longer than the anthers; capsule longer than the perianth. 



Type Peck 1302, collected near Salem. Ore., July. 1911. 

 There has been much confusion as to the relation of Juncus 

 saxinjontanus to Juncus eyisifoUus. The former is in reality 

 sufftciently distinct. Typical J. saximontanus is apparently 

 scarce west of the Cascade Mountains, though common on the 

 eastern side. 



Calochortus Galei sp. nov. Stems from narrowly ovoid 

 bulbs, rather stout, 1.5-3 dm. high below the inflorescence, 

 somewhat glaucous, bearing a single leaf; leaves 2-4 dm. 

 long, 10-18 mm. wide, glaucous above; principal bract leaf- 

 like, about equaling the inflorescence; umbel simple or more 

 often bifurcate, the peduncles 7-15 cm. long, 2-3-flowered, 

 the pedicels 4-8 cm. long; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 20—30 mm. long, dull greenish white or tinged with purplish; 

 petals pale creamy with a faint greenish tinge becoming dull 

 purplish in age, obovate. sometimes apiculate, 30-40 mim. 

 long, the scale over the gland more or less lacerate, the inner 

 surface densely long-hairy over the basal half, the hairs purple 

 at base, the outer half more sparsely hairy or nearly glabrous; 

 anthers acute, shorter than the filaments; capsule narrowly 

 elliptic, the angles winged, 20-30 mm. long. 



Type Peck 13719, collected in open dry ground, 4 miles 

 south of Stayton, Linn Co., Ore., INIay 27, 1925. Most nearly 

 related to C. Piirdyi Eastw., difi'ering from that species in its 

 greater size and larger flowers with creamy instead of lavender- 

 tinted petals, which are much less pubescent on the outer half. 



Ribes Gooddingi sp. nov. A bush 6-10 dm. high with 

 stout, rigid, spreading, somewhat curved branches armed 

 with long, straight, slender yellow spines, solitary below the 

 branchlets, or sometimes 3, the lateral much smaller; inter- 

 nodal spines wanting and young twigs glabrous or puberu- 

 lent; leaf-blades glabrous or ciliate when young, thickish, 

 nearly orbicular in outline, 8-12 mm. long, deeply 3-cleft, 

 the divisions oblong, divaricate, again 1-2-cleft or merely 

 toothed, the segments obtuse; petioles slender, little flattened, 

 minutely puberulent and sometimes sparsely ciliate, mostly 

 equaling or a little longer than the blades; peduncles 1-2- 



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