88 LEAFLETS. 



flora, but plant of remarkably stout habit and ample foliage, a 

 single large cauline leaf under the short raceme ; the whole 

 recalling some anemone. 



CoLLOMiA SCABRA. Annual or biennial, stout, much 

 branched, the branches with short broad leaves and terminal 

 strongly involucrate clusters of sessile flowers, the whole 

 herbage coarsely scabrous and glandular : proper leaves 

 oblong-oval, 1 to 1}4 inches long, acute or acutish, those form- 

 ing the involucre ovate or oval, j4 to % inch long and at base 

 nearly as wide, obtuse : green-herbaceous lobes of the calyx 

 triangular-ovate, obtuse, much shorter than the scarious tube, 

 the whole calyx stiffly short-hirsute and glandular-viscid : 

 corolla white, or whitish, % inch long, slenderly funnelform 

 above a filiform base. 



Stony beds of dry gulches in the Rattlesnake Mountains of 

 southeastern Washington, collected by J. S. Cotton, 16 July, 

 1902. Perhaps next of kin to C. grandiflora, remarkable for 

 its short and almost blunt leaves and bracts, and for the 

 roughness of the whole herbage. 



Persic ARIA cygnea. Of the amphibious group, with 

 upright stout closely leafy stems, either terrestrial, or if 

 aquatic with no tendency to float : leaves broadly lanceolate, 

 5 to 8 inches long including the short stout rigid petioles, of 

 a rather light green and a firm texture, both faces closely 

 strigose with short stout closely appressed hairs, those of the 

 midvein only stouter than the others : peduncle of the solitary 

 spike glandular-hispid with stout red setae that are gland- 

 tipped ; spike cylindric, 2 to 3)4 inches long, the flowers of a 

 deep almost blood-red ; bractlets glandular-scabrous and with 

 very few short almost subulate marginal appendages instead 

 of hairs or bristles. 



Collected in Klamath Co., Oregon, 14 May, 1895, by E. I. 

 Applegate, with no remark about habitat except the name of 

 Swan Lake ; so that as to whether it inhabits meadows, or 

 shores, or has the bases of its stout upright stems in water, we 

 have no knowledge. 



