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was noted at several places in meadows between Edgewood and 

 Gazelle. The elevation where this species occurs ranges from 

 about 2800 to 3500 feet, but it is always mentioned as inhabit- 

 ing the high Sierra Nevada. 



Glaux acutifolia 



Perennial by rather stout rootstocks, glabrous, green and 

 not glaucous: stems more or less branched, ascending but diffuse, 

 angled, 8 cm. long or less: leaves opposite, sessile and somewhat 

 clasping, i cm. long or less, a few of the lowest lanceolate with 

 base nearly 2 mm. wide, the others linear, i mm. wide, curved- 

 ascending, all acute and mucronately pointed: flowers small, 

 nearly sessile, 2 mm. long, pinkish or white, the petaloid calyx 

 divided almost to the base, the lobes ovate-oblong, acutish, with 

 a prominent greenish midvein on the convex exterior: filaments 

 subulate, half the length of the calyx: anthers pale yellow, ob- 

 long elliptical, versatile: style a little longer than the stamens 

 in the flowers examined: capsule not seen. 



The type is no. 8073, collected June 20, 1905, at Gazelle, 

 Siskiyou county, California, in the Shasta valley, abundant in 

 moist saline meadows. 



In Rhodora, 4: 215. 1902, Mr. Fernald described a sea- 

 board form distinct from Glaux maritima^ but did not separate 

 any of the inland forms. The narrow acute leaves of our plant 

 attracted attention at once, and in this character it is unlike any 

 specimen in the herbarium of the California Academy. In the 

 Illustrated Flora, 3: 592, G. niajHthna is described as having the 

 calyx lobes "about equalling the campanulate tube/' the anthers 

 "cordate," as opposed to the characters of our plant as given 

 above. The lower and broader leaves are shorter than the up- 

 per ones, and the latter usually have short branches in the axes, 

 giving them a fascicled appearance. The peculiar candelabra- 

 like curving of the upper leaves is characteristic. 



