NEW PLANTS FROM MIDDLE OALIBORNIA. I'S 



banner which greatly surpasses the other petals, these all at 

 first dingy-yellow but at length copper-color. 



Hackett's Meadows, at 8600 feet, July 18, Baker's n. 4373. The 

 plant by habit is next of kin to Z. formosissimus (^Hosackia 

 gracilis Benth.) of the Californian seaboard, but the flowers are 

 extremely different. 



SiDALCBA EANUNGULACBA. Stems 1 to 2 feet high, mostly 

 solitary, terminating a slender superficially seated horizontal 

 rootstock, retrorsely hirsute from the decumbent base to near 

 the middle ; herbage of a very light green, the long petioles and 

 upper part of stem sparsely hirsute-hairy : leaves orbicular, the 

 lowest 7-cleft and the segments with 2 or 3 obtuse lobes, the 

 cauline more deeply cleft and their segments acutely 3 to 5-lobed, 

 those near the spike 5-parted, the segments lance-linear, entire: 

 spikes very short and dense, and flowers rather large : calyx and 

 pedicels densely villous-hirsute: fruit unknown. 



In Hackett's Meadows at 8600 feet, Culbertson ; n. 4318 of 

 C. F. Baker's distribution. The same, but in poor specimens, 

 was collected by Dr. Edward Palmer, in the same region, in 

 1888 (n. 203) and distributed for S. spicata, from which the 

 species differs essentially by its broad oval spikes, large flowers, 

 and a peculiar foliage recalling that of some Kanunculi. 



SiDALCEA INTEREUPTA .Size of the last, much more slender, 

 apparently also rhizomatous, the stem and petioles loosely pilose 

 with firm spreading hairs ; herbage deep-green, but cut of the 

 leaves much as in the last ; flowers much smaller, in elongated 

 and often interrupted spikes, or even with solitary flowers scat- 

 tered up and down below the terminal spicate cluster : pedicels 

 and calyx-tube stellate-pubescent only, but teeth of the latter 

 pilose : fruit much depressed, the nutlets nearly or quite glab- 

 rous, obviously though not strongly reticulate. 



Habitat of the last, nearly but at a lower altitude, 8000 feet, 

 and by the same collector, being numbered 4255 by Mr. Baker. 



SiLBNE APEETA. Perennial, slender, erect, 2 feet high or 

 less, with but a single pair of cauline leaves near the middle, 

 these narrowly linear and about 3 inches long, the innermost 



