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glabrous above, very sparsely pubescent beneath; the stipules - 
ovate or obovate, obtuse or acutish, 2-4 cm. long, either longer 
or shorter than the petiole; leaflets oval to narrowly elliptic, obtuse 
or acutish at apex, mostly somewhat cuneate at base, 4-8 cm. 
long: raceme of 10-20 rather crowded flowers; calyx finely pubes- 
cent;' the campanulate tube 6-7 mm. long, the triangular acute 
teeth half as long; the deep-yellow corolla more than twice as long 
as the calyx: the young pods erect, straight, white with fine silky 
pubescence, at maturity greenish and sparingly pubescent, moder- 
ately or only slightly arcuate, spreading, 4-8 cm. long and 5-7 mm. 
broad; the pedicels 5 mm. or less. 
So far as known to the writer, the other western species all have a semi- 
fleshy running rootstock, but aside from the woody character of the caudex 
and roots this species has other good characters to distinguish it. 
Secured by MacsriveE at Falk’s Store, Canyon Co., Idaho, May 24, 1919, 
no. go. 
Hypericum tapetoides, n. sp.—Depressed perennial, spreading 
by the slender rhizome-like stems which root at the nodes, very 
leafy: leaves glabrous, oval or obovate, tapering to the half- 
clasping base, 5 mm. or less long, longer than the internodes: flowers 
rarely solitary terminal, usually in cymes of 3-several: sepals 5, 
similar, narrowly elliptic-oblong, abruptly acute, about 3 mm. 
long: petals 5, orange yellow, elliptic, very delicate, 5—7-nerved, 
as long as or longer than the sepals, marcescent: stamens 12-20, 
distinct, nearly as long as the petals: styles 2-4, equaling the 
stamens, slightly dilated upward to the truncate or subcapitate 
summit: capsule ovoid, acute, as long as the sepals: seeds numer- 
ous, oblong, minutely longitudinally roughened striate. 
Very distinct from H. bryophytum Elmer, Bor. Gaz. 36:60. 1903, and 
from H. anagalloides nevadense Greene, Fl. Fran. 113, apparently the only 
species to which it makes a close approach. It was found growing in dense 
mats on sunny mossy, boggy stream and lake banks, usually intermingled with 
mosses and with these forming thick soppy-wet carpets of green. MACBRIDE 
453, Silver City, Owyhee Mountains, in bloom, July 22; no. 570, Trinity, 
Elmore Co., in fruit, August 1910. 
SPHAERALCEA RIVULARIS diversa, n. var.—Differing from the 
species in the green and almost glabrous leaves which are shallowly 
only 3-5-lobed; the lobes mostly obtuse, often broadly rounded, 
