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WESTERN SPECIES, NEW AND OLD.— III. 



Juncoicles subcongestuiii (S. Wats.) Coville 



Lusula spadicea var. siibcongesta S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2 : 202. 



My No. 7135, from above Doiiner Pass, in Placer county, 

 California, collected August 10, 1903, has been identified as 

 above, and is from type locality. Mr. Coville, to whom it was 

 sent for identification, says it must be named Juncoides subcon- 

 gestuni^ being held distinct ixovsi parvifiorimi on account of the 

 conspicuous fimbriation of its bracts and bractlets. The plant 

 is a handsome one, and grovv^s in clumps in little grassy mead- 

 ows among granite rocks kept moist by slowly melting snow- 

 banks. The elevation is about 7500 feet. 



Heuchera lithopliila 



Stems usually many from a thick, multicipital lignescent 

 rootstock, 2-3dm. high, often purplish, naked or occasionally 

 bearing one or two small leaves below the inflorescence, scantily 

 pubescent below, glandular and puberulent above: leaves basal, 

 broadly ovate, either truncate or somewhat cordate at base on 

 petioles of 7cm., glabrous or nearly so on both sides, 5 lobed, 

 the lobes rounded and short, these again slightly 3 lobed, each 

 secondary division ending in a minute cusp, margins ciliate: 

 panicles lax, the lower i-2dm long, branches usually trichoto- 

 mous on slender peduncles of 2-3cm.: bractlets subtending the 

 peduncles and pedicels linear-acuminate, 2-4mm. long, fimbriate, 

 purplish: pedicels a little shorter than the calyx, which is 4mm. 

 long, slender campanulate, purplish, pubescent and glandular, 

 the short lobes of imm. usually rounded, greenish tipped: petals 

 white, linear-spatulate, exserted about 3mm. beyond the calyx, 

 as are the stamens and styles. 



No. 7028, collected on granite rocks n^ar Donner Pass, 

 Nevada county, California, July 27, 1903. It is abundant in 



