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% by 2 mm., circumscissile below the middle : seeds two, brown, 

 slightly constricted below the middle, finely pitted. 



Twenty-one sheets or specimens have been examined from 



Texas and Arizona, as follows : 6 in the U. S. National Herbarium, 



6 in the Gray Herbarium, 8 in the Herbarium of the Missouri 



Botanical Garden, I in the Herbarium of the California Academy 



of Sciences. 



^8. Plantago dura sp. nov. 



A green sub-caulescent annual, with a hard woody root, generally 

 short-villous, glabrous when very old : leaves crowded, erect, 

 numerous, linear, tapering to the acute apex, callous-tipped, entire, 

 narrowed a little to the slightly margined petiole having a semi- 

 clasping base, about 150 mm. by 5 mm., 3 -nerved, the outer very 

 near the margin, villous to glabrate : scapes erect, stout, terete, 

 several to numerous, equalling and surpassing the leaves, 100-250 

 mm. high, pubescent to villous : spikes many-flowered, conspicuous, 

 coarse, thick, erect, cylindrical, ^o mm. by 8 mm., villous : bracts 

 rigid, herbaceous, scarious-sided on the lower third, two or less 

 times as long as the calyx, narrowly lanceolate, widest at the base, 

 at least the lozvest distinctly callous-tipped, 6 mm. or less by 2 mm., 

 white villous : flowers perfect : calyx villous on the midribs, its 

 divisions scarwus, with brown rigid midribs, narrowly obovate, 

 obtuse, 3 mm. long : corolla lobes spreading and reflexed, 

 orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 2 mm. by 2 mm., white: stamens four, 

 about equalling the petals : pyxis one third surpassing the calyx, 

 narrowly ovate, obtuse, 3 mm. by 2 mm., circumscissile below the 

 middle : seeds two, dark brown, narrowly ovate, finely pitted. 



Three specimens have been examined from Santa Catalina 

 Island, Calif, as follows : 1 in the U. S. National Herbarium, 1 in 

 the Gray Herbarium, 1 in the Herbarium of the Missouri Botan-' 

 ical Garden. Type specimen is from Blanche Trask's collection 

 from Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Calif., June, 1897, in the U. 

 S. National Herbari 



um. 



J 9. Plantago inflexa sp. nov. 



A relatively tall, bright green annual, with a short erect stem, 

 generally villous : leaves alternate, ascending to erect, several to 

 numerous, oblanccolate-lincar, acute at the apex, callous-tipped, 

 often so involute near the apex as to appear acuminate, entire or 

 ^'ith scattered callous teeth on the upper half, narrowed to the 

 margined petiole having a semi-clasping base, 100-200 mm. by 



