cinerous puberulent and very sparingly bristly but not glandular ; 

 leaves slightly hispid above; inflorescence slightly glandular; 

 sepals broadly spatulate. 



Type Peck 9367, collected on a rocky hillside at Keno, 

 Klamath Co., Ore., July 7, 1920. 



/ Phacelia ramosissima Dougl. var. valida var. nov. Stem mi- 



nutely puberulent or nearly glabrous, only the inflorescence 

 glandular and with bristly hairs; sepals narrowly linear- 

 spatulate, in fuit 10-11 mm. long; corolla 7-8 mm. 



Type Peck 15496, rocky slope near Lakeview, Ore., July 5, 

 1927. 



v/ Veronica Sherwoodii sp nov. A low perennial, the stem 



persistent and somewhat woody below, diffusely branched, 

 the slender branches ascending or decumbent, 3-8 cm. high, 

 glandular puberulent above; leaves glabrous, 7-15 mm. long, 

 opposite below the floriferous parts of the branches, linear 

 oblong to spatulate-lanceolate, the lower with a few blunt 

 teeth and tapering to slender petioles, the upper entire and 

 sessile; flowers axillary on pedicels shorter than the calyx; lobes 

 of calyx unequal, sometimes strongly so, 3-4 mm. long, nar- 

 rowly oblong, obtuse; corolla white or changing to pale 

 lilac, about 2.5 mm. long, the nearly equal, ovate, rounded 

 lobes three times as long as the tube; stamens reaching the 

 middle of the corolla, the filaments equaling the anthers; 

 style very short; capsule strongly flattened, sharp-edged, 

 2-2.5 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. wide, with shallow apical notch. 



Type William Sherwood 439, collected at Wallowa Lake, 

 Wallowa Co., Ore., May 24, 1923. Does not seem closely related 

 to any other western species. 



^ Pedicularis centranthera A. Gray var. exulans var. nov. 

 Bracts of the inflorescence glabrous or essentially so, the lower 

 similar to the leaves but smaller; otherwise like the species. 



Type Peck 15668, collected in dry open woods 6 miles north- 

 west of Paisley, Lake Co., Ore., July 17, 1927. The species 

 occurs in the Rocky Mountain region, also in California (?). 



Erigeron compositus Pursh var. submontanus var. nov. 

 A large stout form, the leafy-bracted peduncles up to 24 cm. 

 high; minutely and densely glandular throughout and loosely 

 hirsute; leaves, including the long, slender petioles, 4-7 cm. 

 long, the blade 3-4 times parted into narrowly linear divisions; 

 involucre 18-22 mm. across; rays 10-12 mm. long, white. 



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