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belonging to that section, as is possessed by the California 
Academy of Sciences. 
Phlox austromontana Coville—‘‘ The No. 1839 Parish.” which 
he includes in the type bears on the label ‘‘ Phlox speciosa Pursh, 
var. congesta Gray (var. nov.), June, 1886. 
n his remarks on Macrocalyx micranthus, Mr. Coville has 
evidently overlooked the notice in ‘‘ Plants from Baja Califor- 
nia,’ Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, ii, 186. 
Conanthus aretioides is reduced to Nama as Jlarilaunidium 
aretiotdes. If in obedience to Kuntze, Nama is applied to a 
different genus, one would think that Conanthus being reduced, 
itand not Marilaunidium should be the accepted name for Nama. 
Mohavea brevifiora can hardly be specifically distinct. Speci- 
mens of A/. viscida with leaves as broad and nearly as short were 
sent by the writer to Gray in 1884.—They were collected at 
Amboy Station on the Mojave Desert. Mr. Brandegee collected 
the form described by Mr. Coville, at Keeler, in April, 1891— 
some of the corollas were conspicuously dotted while in others 
growing beside them the purple dots were nearly or quite wanting- 
Sarcobatus Batleyz Coville, is founded on dwarfed and perhaps 
diseased specimens, for the large fruiting bracts contain not even 
the rudiment of an ovary. Our specimens of S. vermicularis do 
not sustain the remarks of the author, for the female flowers are 
as Bentham & Hooker say, axillary and solitary on leafy shoots 
of all lengths from 5 mm. to 1 dm. long—of course the longer the 
fruiting branch is the more flowers will be found uponit. There is 
certainly no such thing in any of our specimens as a ‘floral 
axis’’ of the female flowers, the fruiting branches are normally 
terminated by the male spike but it is often wanting, and the 
bushes seem even to be occasionally dicecious. If this stunted 
pubescent form deserved specific rank it would have Boge 
Maximiliant Nees, figured in Bot. Zeitung, vol. ii, 753, 
The new genus Phyllogonum can hardly be pe ae 
sufficiently distant from Nuttall’s Stenogonum, in which though 
the single species is now referred to Eriogonum, the involucre is 
a very variable quantity, Nuttall said it had none. The embryo 
of Phyllogonum is described as ‘‘ nearly straight, radicle lying 
along one angle of the seed; cotyledons orbicular, lying at the 
