90 LEAFLETS. 



upon the original plant with hirsute sepals, and excluding what 

 I had guessed to be a glabrous form of it. 



M. FALLAX. Slender glabrous glaucous annual freely br an- 

 ched above the base, 1 to 3 feet high : leaves unknown ; flowers 

 Subsessile and fruiting spikes long and lax : flowers small, the 

 spreading or recurved tips of the sepals very long, equalling 

 or even exceeding the small dark-red white-edged petals : only 

 the upper pair of stamens equalling the sepals, their filaments 

 united to summit, their anthers very small : pods very narrow, 

 compressed but slightly torulose, IJ inches long, curved down- 

 wards on very short spreading pedicels : seeds oval, little 

 compressed, marginless. 



Hills above Napa Valley near St. Helena, collected by the 

 writer in July, 1891, and then believed to be a form of the pre- 

 ceding ; but the few flowers remaining on one specimen which 

 was at the time given to the U. S. Herb, show clear specific 

 characters, as I now perceive. The other specimens taken were 

 copiously fruiting, but otherwise naked. 



M. VIMINEUS. Size and habit of the last, equally glabrous 

 and glaucous: lower leaves narrowly oblanceolate; upper lance- 

 linear, those of the branches narrowly linear, all entire : flowers 

 more showy in long loose spikes : calyx with comparatively 

 short and white-petaloid tips greatly exceeded by the rather 

 ample white petals ; pods unknown. 



Near Lakeport, Oal., 3 May, 1903, 0. F. Baker, the specimens 

 distributed by him under n. 3059 as Streptanthus vimineus 

 Greene, n. sp. Here described from two sheets of specimens in 

 my own herbarium. 



Laothoe. 



Part III of Kaflnesque's Flora Telluriana must be among the 

 more scarce of that author's publications ; and it is one which I 

 do not recall having seen until recently. Consulting that part 

 of the brochure in which he discusses certain gentians, I read 

 on beyond those pages, and came at length to a paragraph in 



