32 tSAFLSTS. 



lyESSiNGiA TOMBNTOSA. Stoutish, low, very diffuse, the 

 spread of the short branches 4 to 10 inches, each of the very 

 numerous branches ending in a large campanulate head : 

 basal foliage not known ; leaves of stem and branches rather 

 crowded, small, oval or oblong, entire, sessile, white-tomen- 

 tose on both faces : involucre low, much imbricated, its bracts 

 linear-cuneiform, colorless below the short acute recurved 

 green tip : rays yellow : pappus fuscous. 



Southwestern part of the Colorado Desert, California, C. R. 

 Orcutt, 21 Oct. 1889. A plant with habit and aspect all its 

 own ; singularly stout and depressed for a Lessingia ; its 

 heads very numerous and large, as well as quite solitary each 

 at the end of its own branchlet. 



Some Western Caulescent Violets. 



Viola drepanophora. Allied to V. adunca but slender 

 and delicate though upright, about 3 to 5 inches high, seem- 

 ingly glabrous, but under a lens minutely though sparsely 

 puberulent, the almost filiform petioles and peduncles 

 retrorsely so and almost hispidulous : blades of the leaves 

 cordate-oval, obtuse, lightly crenate, j4 to !}( inches long, 

 the petioles twice as long : peduncles far surpassing the leaves, 

 bibracteolate slightly above the middle : sepals subulate-linear, 

 very acute, small, glabrous : corolla deep violet-blue as to the 

 limb of the petals, the greatly elongated stout, falcately 

 upturned spur lavender-purple. 



Wallowa National Forest, Oregon, J. T. Jardine, 1909. A 

 most noteworthy and very beautiful new violet, apparently 

 acaulescent, though certainly of the V. adunca alliance ; the 

 stout but sharply and falcately hooked spur as long as the 

 limb of the petal, and very prominent. 



ViOtA verbascula. Caulescent, but leafy stems short, 

 greatly surpassed by the long-petioled basal leaves ; the whole 

 4 to 6 inches high, the tender and delicate herbage glabrous 

 in every part ; earliest leaves broadly cordate, yi to % inch 



