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sile, deciduous leaves; the branchlets terminating in a solitary flower, 



or in a cymose cluster. 



Natives of the arid, rocky districts of the South-western United 



States, east of the Sierra Nevada. 



1, EUFENDLERA, Flowers solitary or in threes, 6,-merous; filmnenis lin- 

 ear^ with t%m limar-attenuate lobes which are produced beyond the anthers ; 

 cells of the capsule several- seeded. 



Fendlera rupicola, Engelm. & Gray.— Shrub 3-6 feet high; 

 leaves lanceolate, about an inch long; hairs of the upper surface of 

 the leaves very short, stout and erect, of the lower, long and ap- 

 pressed; fiowers large and mostly solitary at the ends of the branch- 

 lets ; calyx-tube short-turbinate ; segments triangular-lanceolate; 

 petals ovate-deltoid, with a long claw, deciduous; stamens 8; styles 

 4; ovary 4-celled; capsule ovoid, the calyx-tube adherent only to its 

 base. 



A beautiful shrub of the mountains of Texas and New Mexico, 

 putting forth in May a profusion of large, white or rose-colored 

 flowers, which give it the aspect of a small peach-tree, 



2. FENDLERELLA. Flowers in compound cymes, ^-merous; filaments 

 broadly subulate; cells i-seeded, 



Fendlera Utahensis. — Shrub 6 inches to 2 feet high, much 

 branched; leaves oblong, attenuate to the base; sparingly long-hairy, 

 3-nerved; flowers small, in a compound cyme; calyx cylindrical-tur- 

 binate, the lobes subulate; petals oblong, unguiculate, white; stamens 

 10; styles 3, stigraatic portion on the inner side, near the summit ; 

 capsule oblong, adherent to the calyx-tube for half its length. 



Whipplea Utahensis^ Watson, Amer, Nat,^ vii,, 300, and Bot^ 

 Calif, i,, 203. Inhabiting dry rocky mountain summits of Utah and 

 Arizona. 



While F, Utahensis certainly brings the genera Whipplea and 

 Fendlera into closer juxtaposition, it does not at all invalidate the 

 former, which still rests upon good characters of its own, that are to 

 be sought chiefly in the calyx, capsule and seed- Its calyx, instead 

 of being green and of a sub-coriaceous thickness of texture, is thin 

 and whitish; the calyx-tube is hemispherical, rather than turbinate ; 

 its capsule is nearly globose; its seeds are not winged; its petals are 

 imbricated in the bud, and have the margins involute, while both 

 species of Fendlera have a convolute aestivation, and petals with 

 erose margin. Whipplea has, moreover, a centripetal inflorescence; 

 the flowers being mostly opposite in a long-peduncled raceme; and, in 

 habit, as well as from a geographical point of view, it is most unlike 

 Fendlera, It is a weak, half -reclining nndershrub of the deep, moist 

 woods of the Coast Range of California. Both Fe?tdlerae are rigidly 

 erect, brittle, hard woody shrubs of the dry, sun-burnt rocks of the 

 interior desert regions of the South-west. 



22 Some New Species of North American Fungi. 



By J. B. Ellis and H. W. Harkness, M.D. 



AscoMYCEs ANOMALus, E. & H.— Albus, Orbicularis vel sub- 

 confluens ; ascis oblongo-cylindraceis sporida octo oblonga hyalina 

 foventibus. 



