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It is a relative of O. lithospej'moides^ and may be the plant men- 

 tioned in PI. Hartw. 329, under 1899 (319): 'Flores ex Hartw. 

 primum albidi, denmm pallide rosei. — In Valle Sacramento," 



Eunaniis clivicola (Greenm.) 



Mimultis {Eunaiius) clivicola Greenm. Erytliea, 7: 119. 

 1899. 



The type is No. 586, collected by D. T. MacDongal and 

 the writer in northern Idaho in 1892, while collecting under the 

 auspices of the U. S. Departmedt of Agriculture. The speci- 

 mens were obtained on a grassy slope in the forest on the trail 

 leading from the St. Joseph's river at Reid's landing, to Weiss- 

 ner's Peak. 



Valeriana Californiea 



Stems about 3dm, high, somewhat puberulent as well as 

 glaucous: leaves of sterile shoots idm. long, including the mar- 

 gined petiole of 4cm., usually 5 'but occasionally 7 lobed, these 

 lanceolate, the lateral ones with decurrent base, the lowest pair 

 smaller, about 1.5cm. long, 5mm. wide, the pair above one-fourth 

 longer and proportionately wider, the terminal one much larger^ 

 about 5cm. long, and nearly 2cm. wide'; stem leaves few, usually 

 three pairs, smaller, on much shorter petioles, the terminal lobe 

 sometimes a little serrate, and sometimes rounded and obtuse, 

 the uppermost pair of leaves nearly sessile, or sometimes reduced 

 to a pair of linear bracts, all moderately glaucous, pubescent 

 with short hairs, or puberulent, ciliolate, the petioles with a 

 broad base: inflorescence thyrsoid paniculate, when in fruit the 

 lowest pair of branches separated from the others by an inter- 

 node of about I dm., its peduncles slender, about 5cm. long;, 

 corollas creamy white, small, 3mm. long, the oblong lobes 

 rounded and obtuse: stamens and style exserted, about 5mm. 

 long: fruit either wooU}^ pubescent or smooth. 



No. 7156, collected on the high ridge south of Donner Pass 

 in Placer county, California, altitude 8300 feet. It is abundant 

 at this place, growing in gravel on a steep northerly slope, and 



