96 Ll^AFiiETS. 



Kange: all the internodes short and whole plant copiously leafy 

 with a capillary-dissected foliage quite exceeding the internodes 

 and not collapsing ; peduncles very stout, of half the diameter of 

 the stout branches that bear them, about an inch long, falcate- 

 curved in fruit ; petals of the small flowers remarkably long 

 oblong ; carpels small, glabrous, sharply keeled and rugulose, 

 tipped with a slender-sabulate style and forming a depressed- 

 globose head of about 13 to 20 in each. 



Near Lakeport, Lake Co., 9 May, 1903, 0. F. Baker: distrib- 

 uted under n. 3063. Eemarkable for the stoutness of the whole 

 plant and the prominence of the long thick curved peduncles. 

 Mr. Baker reports that the plants grow singly, not forming 

 masses, in the beds of streams. 



Two New Sophiae. 



Sophia obtitsa. Evidently large and freely branching, but 

 root and main stem not seen : branches, foliage and calyx canes- 

 cently stellate-tomentulose: larger leaves simply pinnatifid, their 

 7 to 11 lobes oblong, obtuse, commonly entire, now and then 

 crenate-serrate ; racemes sessile, short and loose in fruit : pale- 

 yellow petals minute, hardly equalling the sepals : pods very 

 slender, straight, more than i inch long, torulose, acute, on 

 ascending pedicels of less than i inch and almost filiform. 



In the Black Range, southern New Mexico, 1904, 0. B. 

 Metcalfe, to be distributed under n. 1074. 



S. SERKATA. Bright-green and appearing glabrous, but very 

 sparingly and minutely pubescent under a lens : stem-leaves not 

 seen, those of the branches cut into narrow and remote pinnas 

 all very acute and serrate-incised : racemes sessile, short and 

 dense: sepals glabrous, thin, yellowish, much surpassed by the 

 yellow petals : pods only 4 lines long, on filiform pedicels of i 

 inch or more, commonly incurved, acute, very slender, some- 

 what torulose. 



Same region as the above, and by the same collector ; his n 

 1069. 



