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base : stamens four, shorter than the petals or only just exserted 

 from the tube : pyxis circumscissile at the lower third. 



Nine sheets and specimens have been examined from Texas and 



New Mexico, as follows : 4 in the U. S. National Herbarium, 1 in 



the Gray Herbarium, 1 in the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical 



Garden, 3 in the Columbia Universitv Herbarium. 



11. PlAxNTAgo insularis Eastwood, Calif. Acad. Sci. III. 1: 



112. 1898 



ipL 



sp 



sp 



ing or erect \ several to numerous, linear-lanceolate, acute at the apex 

 or acuminate by the involute margins, callous-tipped, entire or 

 callous-toothed, narrow r ed to the naked petiole having a semi- 



-12 mm., 3 -ribbed, lanatc : peduncles 

 axillary, xvide-spreading to ascending, terete (occasionally stout), 

 several to numerous, surpassing the leaves, 40-160 mm. long, 



clasping base, 40-1 00 mm. by 4 



spike* 



spicuous 

 petals, erect, oblong or in small ft 



capitate, 7—20 mm. by 5-10 mm., villous : bracts scarious, with 

 brown midribs, equalling the calyx or slightly shorter, broadly ovate, 

 rounded or refuse , 3 mm. by 3 mm., pubescent or sometimes 

 villous on the midribs : flowers perfect : calyx pubescent or villous 

 on the midribs, its divisions scarious, with broivn midribs, broadly 

 oblong, obtuse, 3 mm. long : corolla with the tube equalling or 

 somewhat surpassing the calyx, its lobes reflexed-spreading, three 

 times as long as the constricted throat, ovate, abruptly short-acu- 

 minate or acute, 2 mm. by 1.25 mm., brown (at the base or) /// 

 longitudinal streaks : stamens shorter than or just equalling the 

 petals ; styles nearly equalling them : pyxis two times as long as the 

 calyx, ovate, obtuse or truncate, 3 mm. by 2 mm., circumscissile at 

 the Icrwcr third, purple : seeds two, brown, narrowly oblong, finely 

 striate longitudinally, glossy. 



Seventeen sheets or specimens have been examined from 

 southern California and Lower California, as follows : 5 in the U. S. 

 National Herbarium, 3 in the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, 2 in the Columbia University Herbarium, 4 in the Her- 

 barium of the California Academy o( Sciences, 3 in Dr. E. L. 

 Greene's Herbarium. 



* 12. Plantago brunnea sp. nov. 



A lenv green slender-rooted annual, generally villous : leaves 

 basal, erect, several to numerous, narrowly linear, acute at the 



