VOL. Iv. | A New Collinsia. ee, 
easily be seen how the pollen of one flower can fall upon its 
stigma. It goes to sleep earlier than the other flowers and is 
more regular in its habits. They sleep during the cold and wet; 
but it always unfolds somewhat at the proper time, though not 
entirely unless the sun shines brightly. 
Astragalus lentiginosus is the favorite flower of the bumble 
bees. Some plants were collected with pistillate flowers, the 
stamens being small, separate, and with what seemed abortive 
anthers. It certainly was a singular freak for an Astragalus, but 
the peculiarity was common on the late shoots of plants already 
heavy with fruit. Later it was seen that the change was due 
to a fungus. 
Of course there were many other flowers but they were 
neither particularly admired nor closely observed. A list would 
necessarily omit so many prevailing later that it would be unfair 
to the locality and is better omitted. 
A NEW COLLINSIA. 
BY S. B. PARISH. 
Collinsia Davidsoniz. Span high, cymosely few-branched, 
glabrous: leaves inch long, entire obtuse, ovate or oblong, the 
lower pedicellate, the floral linear-spatulate: verticils few (3-8) 
flowered: pedicels shorter than the calyx, this three lines high, 
scarious at base, the thickened obtuse lobes green: corolla mod- 
erately oblique, its upper lobe pale blue, or nearly white, 
transversely callous, the ample lobes few-toothed; lower lip 
equaling the upper, its lateral lobes violet, the keel white with 
dark tip: filaments beardless: gland stipitate, line high: capsule 
oval, not surpassing the calyx lobes; ovules four in each cell, 
seeds rugose. 
Collected by Dr. Anstruther Davidson on the Mojave Desert; 
at Lancaster, May, 1893. ‘Types in the Gray Herbarium and in 
my own. A handsome little plant which I have much pleasure 
in dedicating to its discoverer. 
