LIBRARY 



BULLETIN ^ZZf. 



OF THE GARDEN 



SouiHern Galilornia flcafleniy o! Sciences 



VOL 2. LOS ANOELES, CAL, JUME I, 1903. HO. 6 



116 jVoeth: Bkoad^vay 



Notes on. Platrvts from Middle Western California.. 



BY A. A. HELIvER. 



The following' descriptions and notes on the writer's 

 collection of 1902, made chiefly in the counties of Sonoma and 

 Lake, are ofi'ered preliminary to a full report on the season's 

 work, which he hopes to publish before the end of the present 

 year. The collection is a large and interesting one, consisting 

 of over 1000 numbers, among them some twenty species that 

 appear to be new, and which have already been distributed 

 under the names tliev will bear when described. 



DICHELOSTEMMA VOLUBILIS. (Kellogg.) i 



Macroscapa volubilis, Kellogg. Pacific, June 30, 1854. 



Stropholirion Californicum, Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4; 149. 

 1857. 



Rupalleya volubilis, Moriere. Bull. Linn. Soc. Norm. 8: 

 313. 1863. 



Dichelostemma Californica, Wood, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1868 : 

 173. 1869. 



Brodiaea volubilis, Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 11; 377. 



No. 5499, collected in Berry Canyon, t^^elve miles southeast 

 of Chico, Butte county, May, 1902, where it is not uncommon in 

 thickets and on stream banks. This pink-flowered twining 

 species is apparently congeneric with the blue-flowered ones, 

 first separated by Kunth under the name Dichelostemma, as 

 pointed out byMrs. Curran in Bull. Cal. Acad. 1 ; 149, 1885.^ 



1/ HOOKERA SYNANDRA, sp. nov. 



Stems slender, purplish, about 3dm. high from a fibrous- 

 coated corm; fully developed umbel about 7cm. long, the 



