146 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [AUGUST 
OREGON: rocky soil, Malheur Valley, near Harper Ranch, alt. 1100 ft., 
June 10, 1896, J. B. Leiberg 2234 (type in Gray'Herb.). It is surprising indeed 
to find a representative of this alliance so far north. A. grandiflora Kleeb, the 
species which A. carinata so closely simulates in habit, has not been collected 
north of San Francisco or Monterey. The Oregon species does not seem to 
differ from A. vernicosa except in its fruit; it is only related to A. grandiflora 
in a general way; its nutlets are radically different from both. Mature nutlets 
of A. vernicosa are bright gray, speckled with black, 4-4. 5 mm. long, sharply 
triquetrous (like monster buckwheat grains), and with no obvious scar. 
Mertensia Palmeri, n. sp.—Apparently tufted on a woody root: 
stems ascending, 2-3 dm. high, ciliate-hirsute: leaves ciliate- 
, hirsute below, minutely hispid above; radical leaves ovate, obtus- 
# » ish, 2-5 cm. long, on stout petioles somewhat shorter; stem leaves 
tv 
y 
‘ » hg 
a 
} 
ot © 
* 
a 
e 
broadly ovate, 5-10 cm. long, cuneately tapering to the acute apex, 
the stout margined petioles very short: inflorescence appressed- 
strigose, paniculate, few-flowered: calyx cleft to the base; the 
sepals linear-lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long: corolla with broad tube 
only as long as the calyx, the limb with rather strongly dilated 
throat and nearly 1 cm. long. 
The type was collected somewhere in Arizona by E. Palmer, 1869 (no other 
data). It was distributed as M. paniculata Don.? It is deposited in the 
National Herbarium, the sheet bearing the accession no. 46975, and apparently 
is related to M. pratensis, but is remarkable because of the hirsute stems. 
TETRACLEA COULTERI Gray, var. angustifolia (Wooton and 
Standley), n. comb.—Tetraclea angustifolia Wooton and Standley, 
Contrib. Nat. Herb. 16:170. 1913.—Usually readily distinguished 
from the species by the narrowly oblong leaves. 7. Coulteri varies 
in leaf shape considerably, however, and its leaves are often as 
strongly toothed as are those of the variety. The narrow leaved 
plants exhibit no other differences that are worthy of note and that 
may not be found in any representative series of the species. 
At present known only from southern New Mexico, by E. O. Wooton (I.c.); 
and more recently by A. Davidson, of Los Angeles, who secured specimens at 
Summit, October 1, 1900, no. 352a, and at Duncan, September 1, 1902, no. 1078. 
A new section of Pentstemon 
In Bor. GAZ. 55: 381. 1913 we published a species of Pentstemon 
(P. rex) in which the anther cells remain closed and saccate at the 
apex. As stated there, this character seems to have been noted 
