132 MEMOIRS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. 



This species differs from the next mainly in the larger size, and should, perhaps, be 

 regarded as a variety thereof, rather than as distinct. It is rather common in the moun- 

 tains of Southern Californica from Santa Barbara southward. 



California: E. Palmer, No. 123, 1876; S. B. Parish, Nos. 279 and 3651, 1885; Nos. 

 3036 and 2036, 1888; Nos. 2205 and 2208, 1891; Fritchey, No. 35, 1891 ; Orcutt, No. 

 43; Parry & Lemmon, No. 102 (in part); Parry, 1889 ; Dr. E. Hasse, 1888 ; G. W. Dunn, 

 1891 ; T. S. Brandegee, 1888. 



II. Horkelia cuneata Lindl. 



Horkelia cuneata Lindl. Bot. Reg. 23 : under t. 1997. 1837. 



Dietr. Syn. PI. 2: 1628; Walp. Ann. 2: 36; Presl, Epim. 198. 



Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 435; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey's Voy. 338; Torr. 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 64; Benth. PL Hartw. 309. 



Horkelia Douglasiana Nutt.; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey's Voy. 338. As synonym. 

 1841. 



Hm'kelia Californica var. cuneata Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6 : 529. 1865. 



Kegel, Act. Hort. Petr. 1 : 151. 



Potentilla Lindleyi Greene, Pittonia, 1 : 101. 1887. 



Potentilla multijuga Greene, Fl. Fran. 1 : 66. 1891. 



Illustrations: Plate 66, f 1; dissection of flower, /. 2; stamen, /. 3 ; pistil, /. 4-; 

 fruiting hypanthium and calyx, /. 5. 



Stems several from a perennial woody caudex, rather slender, 1.5-3 dm. high, few- 

 leaved, villous and glandular, especially on the upper part, sometimes nearly glabrous. 

 Stipules lanceolate or ovate, 5-10 mm. long, mostly entire. Basal leaves rather short- 

 petioled, villous or hirsute-puberulent, or nearly glabrous, pinnate ; leaflets 8-1 2 pairs, 

 cuneate to obovate, entire at the base, deeply toothed above, about 1 cm. long. Stem 

 leaves few and small. Cyme rather dense and few-flowered. Hypanthium villous-glan- 

 ular, in fruit 5-8 mm. in diameter, cupulate, about half as deep as wide ; bractlets ovate- 

 lanceolate, a little smaller than the similar sepals. Petals oblong-spatulate, exceeding 

 the sepals by about a third. 



It is very variable as to the pubescence. The type specimens are only sparingly 

 hairy and differ very little from the preceding species except in size. Sometimes it is, 

 however, very hairy, almost as much so as H. scricea and H. Bolancleri, but the hairs are 

 much coarser; such are T. S. Brandegee's specimens from Point San, 1888, and C. C. 

 Parry's from Monterey, 1850. It seems to he rather common in southern California near 

 the coast. 



