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divisions scarious, with green midribs, broadly oblong, obtuse, 

 2.5 mm. long: corolla with the tube equalling the calyx, its lobes 



reflexed -spreading, four times as long as the constricted throat , 

 round-ovate, abruptly acute, 2 mm. by 1.5 mm., white to tazvuy, 

 darker at the base : stamens and style equalling the corolla lobes : 

 pyxis two times as long as the calyx, oval, rounded at the apex, 

 4mm. by 2 mm., circumscissile just below the middle: seeds two, 

 brown, narrowly oblong, very finely pitted. 



Eighteen sheets or specimens have been examined from Arizona 

 and southern California, as follows : 8 in the U. S. National Her- 

 barium, 1 in the Gray Herbarium, 4 in the Herbarium of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, 1 in the Columbia University Herbarium, 3 

 in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences, 1 in Dr. 

 E. L. Greene's Herbarium. Type specimen is J. W. Tourney's 

 no - 355 a > from Tucson, Arizona, April, 1892, of which there are 

 two sheets in the U. S. National Herbarium. 



v 14. Plantago scariosa nom. nov. 



P. minima Alida M. Cunningham, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 



1896: 202. 1897 ; not P. minima DC. Fl. Fr. 3: 408. 1805 ; 



nor P. minima Less.; Barn. Monog. Plantag. 41. 1845. 



A low light green a caulescent animal, generally thick -villous : 

 leaves basal, erect, several to numerous, linear to occasionally 

 lanceolate-linear, acute at the apex, callous-tipped, entire or with 

 a few scattered callous teeth, narrowed to the semi-clasping petiole, 

 20-40 mm. by 2-4 mm., occasionally longer and equalling the 

 scapes, obscurely j -ridded, white-tomentous to glabrate in age: scapes 

 erect, slender, terete, two to several, surpassing the leaves, 30-120 

 mm. high, villous to tomentous below the spikes : spikes 6-20-flow- 

 ered, erect, capitate to oblong, 5-1 8 mm. by 5-6 mm., densely villous : 

 bracts rigid, scarious, with green or purplish midribs, as long as the 

 sepals, narrowly to broadly ovate, obtuse, 3 mm. by 3 mm., glabrous 

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



pubescent, its 



plish 



obovate, obtuse, 2.5 mm. long : corolla with the tube equalling the 

 calyx, its lobes reflexed-spreading, two and one half times as long as 

 the constricted throat, round-ovate, acute or abruptly short-acuminate, 

 2 mm. by 1.5 mm., white, with a dark base : stamens four, equal - 



py 



sepals, ovate, rounded at the apex 



cumscissile just below the middle : seeds two, yellow, narrowly 

 oblong, smooth and glossy. 



