188 tEAPLETS. 



could not have been a part of his ' ' variety pumilum, ' ' a thing 

 which can have no status any way, even as a variety, because 

 it was never described. 



Apocynum cercidium. Plants 5 to 8 inches high, widely 

 branched from the base, the width of the plant equalling 

 its height, densely leafy with a very large foliage, the short 

 cymes partly surpassed by it, every part of the plant glabrous ; 

 lowest leaves orbicular and smallish, the next also suborbic- 

 ular yet perceptibly longer than broad, IJ^ inches long, the 

 width less by /^ inch, subcordate at base, retuse at apex, the 

 usual mucro obsolete, other foliage broadly oval, obtuse at 

 both ends, mucronulate, all the leaves spreading or slightly 

 ascending, none deflexed ; flowers few, terminal and axillary; 

 sepals triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, of less than half the 

 length of the tube of the corolla ; corolla not large, quite cam- 

 panulate, the lobes long-oval, obtuse. 



Fort Bidwell, Modoc Co., California, June, 1903, collected 

 by Mary A. Manning; type in U. S. Herb., sheet 667,872. 

 Flowers more nearly like those of A. androsaemifolium than 

 in any other species, but the plant a dwarf, with large foliage 

 recalling that of the genus Cercis. 



Apocynum Austinae. Plant 18 inches high, simple and 

 leafless for the first 6 inches, then parted into a very few 

 ascending branches sparsely leafy, at summit, loosely but 

 freely flowering, in all parts glabrous ; leaves small for the 

 plant and all deflexed, short-petiolate, ovate, obtuse, mucro- 

 nate, averaging 1 inch long, dark-green above, pale beneath ; 

 sepals short, ovate, acute, somewhat spreading ; corolla of 

 middle size for this group, narrow, cylindric nearly, and that 

 from base to orifice, the oblong, obtuse segments of half the 

 length of the tube, but erect ; follicles 4 inches long, straight, 

 closely contiguous and erect. 



lyassen Creek, Modoc Co., California, Aug., 1894, Mrs. 

 R. M. Austin, the type in my own herbarium, n. 7106. 



