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sepals all deep-blue purple, each with a very prominent though 

 narrow apiculation ; ovaries canescently villous. 



On Coyote Creek, 30 July ; Baker's n. 4392. The aspect of 

 the species suggests afBnity for D. decorum and its kindred ; but 

 the root is of another structure entirely. 



BiSTORTA SCABERTJLA. Tall and with large foliage, but the 

 root unknown: basal leaves upright, a foot long, the oblong 

 blade little longer than the stoutish petiole, mostly obtuse at 

 base, more than an inch wide, thinnish, neither revolute nor 

 crisped, of a vivid green above, the veins there inconspicuous, 

 beneath paler and glaucescent, the midvein broad, neither 

 flattened nor striate, the veins and veinlets, especially the latter, 

 muriculate-scaberulous : stem stoutish, 2 feet high, glabrous, 

 striate, the sheaths 1^ inches long, bearing each a sessile acute 

 leaf about as long : spikes barely in flower and ovoid, scarcely f 

 inch long. 



Hackett's Meadows, at 8600 feet, Culbertson, 18 July, 1904, 

 distributed by Mr. Baker under n. 4384. The muriculation of 

 the reticulate veinlets is a peculiar character. 



Eriogonttm junceum. Suffrutescent, the woody and densely 

 leafy branches only a few inches high, loosely cespitose, white- 

 tomentose, as are also the small obovate or obovate-elliptic leaves: 

 slender peduncles 5 to 9 inches high, perfectly glabrous, of a 

 vivid green and reedy-looking, usually but once forked, bearing 

 the involucres J to i inch apart, these sessile, narrow-campanu- 

 late, glabrous, obtusely toothed : perianths white, the segments 

 with red -brown midvein, all obovate and very obtuse. 



Kern River Cafion, 2 Aug. 1904, Culbertson, being n. 4396 of 

 0. F. Baker's distribution. Related to E. Wrighiii, distin- 

 guished by slender glabrous and reedy peduncles, glabrous invo- 

 lucres, and smaller perianths with relatively broad segments. 

 A specimen of what appears the same is in U. S. Herb, from 

 Mt. San Jacinto, 11 Aug., 1897, by H. M. Hall, named E. 

 Wrightii. 



SwERTiA CoviLLBi. Stout-stemmed, rather few-flowered, 6 to 

 16 inches high; basal leaves in the largest plants 6 inches long, 

 thin and flaccid, not indistinctly 3 -nerved, the oblong-lanceolate 



