&ENtS AlfOTlTES. lOl 



glaadular-hairy : leaves very thin but large, elliptic to oblong- 

 lanceolate, IJ to 3 inches long, acute, sparsely muriculate-punc- 

 tate above, the points apt to develop short hairs, beneath 

 sparsely soft-hairy, the midvein scantily hirtellous and nwrgin 

 obscurely ciliolate : pedicels filiform, all but the uppermost 

 shorter than their subtending leaves, though more than an inch 

 long: calyx thin, obovoid, deeply cleft, the teeth triangular, 

 acute or acuminate : lobes of the petals oblong : seeds short-ren- 

 iform, delicately reticulate, the meshes forming an ill defined 

 transverse lineolation. 



Moist shades by streams in Eastern Oregon and adjacent 

 Idaho, Leiberg, n. 3443 from Malheur Co, and 8H7 from Wasco 

 Co., Oregon; but finest specimens by Henderson, Hatwai Creek, 

 Idaho; all as in U. S. Herb. 



* * Species of the Great Basin; none with retrorse pubes- 

 cence. 



9. A HALOPHiLA. Stems low, 5 to 7 inches high, sparsely 

 floriferous almost from the base, and very leafy throughout, with 

 thin and delicate but ample foliage; leaves obovate-oblong to 

 elliptical, merely acute, 1 to li inches long, spreading, of nearly 

 twice the length of the internodes, only punotieulate above, 

 beneath with a few short hairs, the margin hispid-ciliolate; lower 

 joints of the stem villous and viscid with spreading hairs, the 

 upper and the pedicels minutely glandular-hairy : calyx large, 

 cleft well toward the middle, the lobes triangular, acuminate- 

 petals apparently small. 



Desert plains of southeastern Oregon, near Alkali Lake, H. E. 

 Brown, 30 Sept 1896, U. S. Herb. 



10. A. DoHRii. Silene Dorrii Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 44 

 f. 13. Upright, a foot high or less, the slender stems subterete, 

 straw-colored and somewhat shining, only minutely and spar- 

 iagly hirtellous and glaadalar, nowhere retrorse-villous, leafy 

 throughout and sparsely floriferous : internodes mostly far 

 longer than the leaves, IJ to 3 inches long; leaves obovate- 



