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S. cynosuroides^ Willd,, than as a distinct species. The characters 
based upon the spikelets alone are not sufificient to separate them. 
• The spikelets represented in Figures i and 2 of Plate xxxvi. were 
taken from a specimen of S, cynosuroides collected at the outlet of 
Moosehead Lake, Maine, by Messrs A. H. and C. E. Smith in 1868. 
The spikes of the plant are unusually long peduncled and very loosely 
flowered, but that it is an abnormal growth is well shown by the 
spikelets represented. 
Figures 3, 4 and 5 were drawn from spikelets of a specimen in 
the herbarium of Mr. Wm. M. Canby, collected at Atlantic City, New 
Jersey. In habit the plant was like S. polystachya. Figure 5 repre- 
sents a double spikelet which has two upper outer glumes with but a 
single lower one. Nearly all degrees of cohesion were to be found in 
different spikelets on the plant. 
Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9 illustrate in detail a two-flowered spikelet 
taken from a specimen of S. cynosuroides collected in Oregon by E. 
Hall. Most of the spikelets were normal, but all degrees in the 
development of a second floret were exhibited by others, the one 
here illustrated being the most complete. In some the opposing 
edges of the pales of the two flowers were united for nearly their 
entire length. Fig. 6 shows the 2-flowered spikelet complete. Fig. 7 
exhibits the outer glumes. Fig. 8 shows the two florets removed from 
the outer glumes. Fig. 9 shows the florets separated. 
New Western Compositae. 
By Edward Lee Greene. 
Bkickellia Cedrosensis. — A low shrub, with ascending, leafy 
branchlets bearing usually a solitary head; larger leaves a half-inch 
long, triangular ovate, coarsely and sharply toothed, on short petioles; 
those of the branchlets narrower and mostly entire, all roughish 
pubescent; heads 12-18-flowered; involucral scales acute; akenes 
smooth; pappus finely barbellate. 
Collected on the Cedros Islands many years since by Dr. Veitch, 
and preserved in the herbarium of the California Academy. The 
species is allied to B. frutcscefis, Gray, of the main land, north-east of 
the islands, which has entire, veinless leaves, and heads with more 
numerous flowers. 
B^.RiA CARNOSA. — Simple, or more or less branched from the 
base; the root somewhat fusiform-thickened, but strictly annual; 
stems a span high, slender but wiry, purple, and sparsely clothed 
with rather webby, white hairs; leaves wholly glabrous, narrowly 
linear, subtercte and, with the involucres, thick and succulent; in- 
volucres campanulate, their large fleshy scales marked with a promi- 
nent, keel-like midrib; akenes roughish; pappus of 5 ovate, acumi- 
nate, chaffy scales which taper into a long slender awn. 
Collected by the wTiter on the border of a salt marsh at Vallejo, 
April isth, 1883. A most remarkable species, as to its succulent 
herbage, recalling certain similarly fleshy, maritime species in other 
genera of compositae, as, for example, Layia carnola, H. & A. 
Lagophylla congesta.— Near Z. ramosissivia, but the stouter 
