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fruiting calyx on a slender pedicel of about its own length, of 

 round-oval outline save as modified by the large and prominent 

 triangular uppermost lobe or tooth. 



Bear Mountain, near Silver City, New Mexico, 24 April, 

 1903, O. B. Metcalfe, a part of his n. 28 as in U. S. Herb., 

 the other specimens under that distribution number being of a 

 very different species. The present plant has some points 

 notably recalling the Californian M. 7iasidiis. Apparently the 

 same is T. K. Wilcox's n. 31 from Fort Huachuca, Ariz., 

 1894, in flower only. 



-. M. CUSPIDATUS. Of the height of M. nasiitics, stems as quad- 

 rangular but more slender, with longer internodes and fewer 

 leaves and flow^ers ; herbage not reddened but pale-green and 

 glaucescent ; lower face of foliage more or less sparsely setu- 

 lose-hairy, otherwise glabrous : leaves of suborbicular outline, 

 the lowest on long and slender petioles, the low^er and middle 

 cauline w^th a merely spatulate to broadly cuneate base, these 

 and the closely sessile bracts above them cuneate, all sparsely 

 dentate and plainly cuspidate-pointed : pedicels slender, shorter 

 than the calyx, this with not very prominent upper lobe: 

 corolla small as in M, 7iastitus, 



Knowm only as collected in wet shades among rocks along 

 the upper Stanislaus River, California, by the waiter, late in 

 June, 1889. 



M. PROCERUS. Stout, upright, presumably a yard high, the 

 large terminal racemes alone a foot long, in every part hirtel- 

 lous-puberulent : leaves below^ the inflorescence as far as know^n 

 round-oval, petiolate, all the floral sessile, broader than long, 

 the lower of these closely, deeply and almost pectinately den- 

 tate, the upper much reduced and entire : fruiting pedicels 

 stout, ascending, much longer than the very large calyces, 



these broadly oblique-oval, % inch long, more than 72 inch 

 wide, their teeth large, short and blunt : corolla yellowy large, 

 but not so in due proportion to the plant. 



Santa I^ucia Mountains, California, R. H. Plaskett, June, 

 1898, n. 156, as in my herbarium. 



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