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fer according to description from V. Californicum except "in 

 glabrous leaves." But Mr. Howell's Califoriticum is plainly 

 an aggregate, and perhaps the real species is unknown to him. 



VeraTrum tenuipetai^um Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: 39. 1904, 

 This well-marked species should be looked for throughout 

 Colorado and New Mexico, and will probably prove peculiar to 

 the southern Rocky mountains. 



Veratrum fimbriatum a. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 391. 



This, the most remarkable species in the genus, is quite 

 local, thus far having been reported only from the type locality, 

 along the coast of Mendocino county, near Mendocino, Califor- 

 nia, where it is said to be plentiful. 



A NEW UNANTHUS 



Liiianthus Eastwoodae 



Linanthus serrulatus Milliken, Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot. 2 : 60. 

 1904; not Greene, Erythea, 3: 120. 1895. 



Annual, diffuse, about i dm. high, the lower branches some- 

 what procumbent, the others diverg-ing and ascending, often 

 purplish, pubescent with short hairs which are inclined to be 

 retrorse: internodes few, of varying length, the longest about 4 

 cm.: leaves dull green, those of the stem a pair at each inter- 

 node, 2 cm. or less in length and as wide, palmately parted into 

 about 8 linear acerose segments i mm. wide, sparingly armed 

 with spine-like hairs, the margin more densely so; the basal 

 part of the leaf entire, broadly obovate or roundish, 2-4 mm. 

 across; involucral leaves similar but more spinose: flowers few; 

 calyx I cm. long, the glabrous tube only 2 mm. long, the nar- 

 rowly linear-lanceolate lobes over i mm. wade at base, long 

 acuminate, connected at the base for nearly 2 mm. by a mem- 

 brane, sparingly spinose hairy like the leaves: corolla 2 cm. 

 long, the slender, almost filiform purplish tube about 16 mm. 



