26o BOTANICAIv GAZETTE. [ Octobei", 



altitude 3,900 feet, March 1890 ; and here also is to be re- 

 ferred Turckheim 493, May 1879, ^^"om a marshy meadow 

 near Coban ; and very probably E. Kerbin's 482 in herb. 



Smith. 



Eryngium Caklin^ Delar. Common in Guatemala. 



Smith 2199, ^ltitude 5,000 feet. E. Lemmoni C. & R., of 

 southern Arizona and northern Mexico, is very distinct from 

 this and ought easily to be distinguished from it. E. Lem- 

 moni lacks the central foHaceous bractlets of E. Carlintej and 

 has different bracts and leaves w^hich are also glaucous. To 

 it should be referred Pringle 2010, of 1889, distributed as E. 

 Carlinic. 



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Eryngium fcetidum L. Esquintla, altitude 1,100 feet, 

 March 1890, J. D. Smith. 



Eryngium pectinatum Presl, But two locahties are 

 given for this species by Hemsley in Biol. Centr. Amer., 

 viz. : Sierra Madre {SeemcDi) and Tefie {Lay)^ neither of 

 which collections we have seen. Smith's specimens are 

 from San Raphael, Guatemala, altitude 6,500 feet, no. 2197. 

 The species has never been very fully characterized, DeCaii- 

 dolle merely describing the leaves and involucre, the flowers 

 being said to be unknown. The plant is tall and branching : 

 leaves slender and long (35 to 45 cm.) ; bracts 2.5 to 3.5 cm. 

 long, much longer than the globose head (12 mm. in diame- 

 ter) ; bractlets lanceohite, cuspidately cleft, as long as the 

 flowers or a little shorter : sepals broadl}^ ovate, abruptl}^ 

 short-cuspidate, i mm. long : fruit 4 to 5 mm. long, the 

 lateral scales forming a thin wing as broad as the body, the 

 dorsal ones compressed : oil-tubes 5 (3 dorsal and 2 ventral). 

 This phmt differs from DeCandolle^s description in the bracts 

 being only occasionally squamose dentate at base. To this 

 species we would also refer Gregg 637, collected in Mexico 

 in 1848 and 1849, without flower or fruit ; also Wheeler 192 

 from Orizaba, S, Mexico, collected in 1855, both in herb. 

 Grav. We have also examined Ronro-pan tt^^ vf^fp 



Hemsley as " aff'. E. pecti 



red b\ 



xaio. iiie leaves are very sim- 

 ilar to those of E. pectinatum, having the same pecuhar 

 paired spines (but the longer are shorter than the breadth of 

 the leayes). The heads are on shorter peduncles and are 

 cyHndrical cone-shaped instead of globose, 2.5 cm. long, 

 longer than the (15) hnear-lanceolate entire bracts ; bractlets 

 much larger than the flowers. Unless there is a mixture of 

 specimens this form ought to be made distinct. 



Akkacaci V Bkaxdegei Couher & Rose has been again 



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