February 20, 1906 in 



ers pinkish or j)ur])lc tinged, narrowly canipannlate, 5 nun. long, 

 3 mm. across, the lobes spreading when fully open; tube 3 mm. 

 long, lobes 2 mm. long, oblong, a little over i mm. wide, the 

 apices narrowed but hardly acute: stamens 2 mm. long, the 

 broad filament i mm. long, nearly half its length covered by the 

 anther, this upper part broader than the lower, the truncate end 

 eroded; anthers lanceolate, obtusish, i mm. long, the base 

 notched, its lobes rounded: appendages between the stamens 

 broadly triangular, i mm. long and as wide, shortly apiculate: 

 stigma ovoid, entire. 



The type is no. 81 10, collected July, 14, 1905, on the out- 

 skirts of Nevada City, Nevada county, California, along the 

 roadside and on the edge of a little meadow on the line of the 

 electric railroad. This species is apparently not closely related 

 to any of the described ones, and is not of the cannabimim type. 



ASCLEPIADACEAE 



GOMPHOCARPUS CORDIFOLIUS Bcuth.; Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 477. 

 1878. 



Acerates cordifolia Benth. PI. Hartw. 323. 1849. 



Asdepias cordifolia Jepson, Fl. West. Mid. Cal. 384. 1901. 



No. 7860, collected May 26, on hills about two miles west 

 of Redding, Shasta county, sheltered by rocks. The species has 

 considerable altitudinal range, this Redding station being at per- 

 haps 1200 feet, while it occurs at over 4000 feet in the moun- 

 tains of Lake county, and at 6000 feet near Donner Lake on the 

 east side of the Sierra. The type came from ''valle Sacramento" 

 at the Marysville Buttes. 



CONVOLMLACEAE 



Convolvulus malacophyllus Greene, Pittonia, 3: 326. 1898. 

 Calystegia villosa Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. 5:17. 1873. 

 Convolvulus villosus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 90. 1876; 



not Pers. 1805. 

 No. 7988, collected June 5, on the plateau above Shasta 



