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the petals are larger and broader and mostly 3-nerved, the stigmas 
twice as large, the outer sepals commonly shorter and closer. The 
leaves of the basal shoots are often larger and relatively narrower 
and usually more hairy. 
Lechea stricta Leggett, as compared with L. juniperina,is a 
paler, more silky-canescent plant, especially when young, the nar- 
rower acute leaves more pubescent, even pubescent over the lower 
surface and sparsely hairy above, the branches longer and massed 
above to form a broader panicle, the rather smaller and more glo- 
bose longer-pedicelled flowers not at all glomerate, but distinctly 
racemose-paniculate and showing little or no purple. — 
L. juniperina appears to occupy a somewhat intermediate posi- 
tion between L. intermedia and L. maritima Leggett, although it 
need never be confused with the latter. Z. sarztima is, in fact, very 
distinct from all our species and is strongly characterized by its 
rigidly bushy-branched habit, dense tomentose-canescence and 
the oblong densely-pubescent leaves of the basal shoots. 
Notes on two western Plants. 
By P. A. RYDBERG. 
LONICERA GLAUCESCENS. 
Lonicera parviflora var.? Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. 2: 7 ‘oaitiyy 
1840. 
Lonicera Douglasti Hook. Fl, Bor. Am. 1: 282, 1833. Not 
Caprifolium Douglasii Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London, 7: 244. 
1830. 
Lonicera hirsuta glaucescens Rydb. Cont. U.S. Nat. Herb. 3: 
503. 1896. 
After seeing more material I have become perfectly convinced 
that this is just as good a species as any in the genus. The same 
conclusion has been reached independently by Dr. J. K. Small, 
_ who intended to describe it as new, not noticing my description 
cited above. He has also informed me of some of the localities 
given below. To the characters given in my description in the 
Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1. c., I can add a feature which then 
escaped my observation and which distinguishes L. g/aucescens 
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