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Wade* sterile flowers on racemes with &leuder podnnolea longer than the leaves: 

 pedicels filiform 6 to 9 lines long; flowers small (1^ to 2 lines hroad), white, an- 

 thers 5, with straight cells: female flowers solitary on long thread-like pedicels 

 (:i to G inches long) which coil like a tendril : fruit including the hoakcd oper- 

 culum (glabrous, deciduous) 8 lines long; the base covered with long slender 

 spines: cells 2, each containing 2 seeds: seeds ascending, 2| lines long.— Com- 

 mon about Alamos, climbing over bushes and fences, September 16 to 30. No. 

 034. A. peculiar species in its long cirrhiform peduncles. Prof. A. Cognianx, 

 who has kindly looked over my plant, makes the following note: Votre Echino- 

 pepon nouvean est bien curiuux et ditft-re beaucoup de tons les autres, surtout 

 par son trfes-long p^duncule tiliforme. Je crois qu'il fandra le placer pres de mon 

 Echimcystis torquata (Monogr., p. 803), avec leqnel il n'a ccpendant pas trop de 



rapports. 



Explanation of Plate IV.— Tlic plantis shown natural sizo; a, seed ; b, flower; both much 

 enlarged. 



Sicyosperma gracile Gray. This ])laut is found along water-courses, climbing over 

 bushes and fenc^^s. Alamos. September IG to 30. No. 723. 



Sechiopsis triquetra Naud. Alamos. September 16 to 30. No. 736. 



Begonia Palmeri Watson. Proc. Amer. Acad. xxi. 429. Leaves not lobed : flowers 

 white. Grows in a mountain canon near Alamos. September IG to 30. No. 708. 



Cereus, sp. About 4 feet high : llowers salmon-colored, very numerous. Quite 

 common at \larnoa. March 26 to April 8. No. 335. 



Eryiigium nasturtiifolium Juss. The fruit of this species is covered with small, 

 linear scales, except at the top ; here they are broad, ovate, nmcronate ; the apex 

 is extended into a beak as long as the ovary. Only a few plants found in moist 

 places near Alamos. March 26 to April 8. No. 302. 



Aralia pubescens DC. ? Tree-like plant 5 to 7 feet high, H inches in diameter 

 with thick corky bark; branches few, horizontal: branches and inflorescence 

 puberuleut : racemes terminal, compound, 3 to 6 inches long: styles 5, tardily 

 separating: fruit 2 lines in diameter. Alamos Mountain. March 26 to Ai)ril 8. 

 No. 351. A. pubescens has been considered by Benth. & Hook., Gray and Wat- 

 son, and most other writers as simply a form of A. humilia and our plant may 

 properly belong to that species. In the absence of leaves, however, it is difUeult 

 to decide juat what species it is, and if distinct from A. humilia I am not 

 altogether sure that it is A. piihesceus. 



Chiococca racemosa L. An u)>right-growing shrub, 6 feet high. The leaves are 

 somewhat smaller thau any specimens in the National Herbarium. Grows on 

 hillside near Alamos. Sept. 16 to 30. No. 735. 



Spermacoce asperifolia Mart. &, Gal. Collected near Alamos; without number 

 (distributed under letter C). Sept. 16 to 30. Said to have been obtained in March 

 also, but specimens are lost. 



Venionia (?) Palmeri, n. sp. A bush with many stems, 4 to 5 feet high, closely seri- 

 ceous-pubescent : leaves lanceolate, 3 to 6 inches long, entire : inflorescence form- 

 ing large pyramidal clusters: involucre cylindrical, or 3 or 5 series of bracts: 

 corolla white with slender proper tube and narrow lobes : akones turbinate, pu- 

 bescent. — Alamos. March 26 to April 8. No. 387. Very abundant half way up 

 the mountain side. 



Stevia trifida Lag. Only a few plants seen. Found near a water-course half way 

 up the Alamos mountain. March 26 to April 8. No. 287. 



Stevia subpubesceus Lag. One to two feet high, bushy: flowers white. High part 

 of the mountain under shade of oaks and pines. Alamos. March 26 to April 8. 

 No. 386. 



Eupatorium, sp. About 2 feet high : leaves 1 to 1^ inches long, ovate, slightly toothed, 

 under sniface densely covertid with miiiut<^ glands: involucre cylindrical, with 

 3 or 4 rows of closely imbricated bracts. Only found half way up the mountain. 

 Alamos. March 26 to April 8. No. 359. 



