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more or less hispid with fine or stiff bristles or hairs which on the 

 stems and peduncles are spreading or appressed downwards, on 

 the leaves and floral organs are upwardly appressed. The ap- 

 pendages at the base of the corolla differ in plants from different- 

 localities and have been taken as the chief distinguishing specific 

 characteristic. These appendages are often difficult to discover, 

 being so thin and small. It was learned by experience that, after 

 the dried flower had been softened and spread out so as to show 

 the form of the parts ; if then, the corolla were allowed to become 

 almost dry, there was a stage when the form and character of the 

 appendages could be delineated. The color of the flowers is not 

 known except in a few instances. This is owing to the changes 

 incident to drying, poisoning, and age. The anthers in all the 

 dried flowers are black or dark brown, either ovate or oblong- 

 ovate with pointed apex and the base either cordate or sagittate. 



In the figures which have been made of the flowers and leaves, 

 the parts of the flowers have been enlarged five times, the leaves 

 are the natural size. Where the leaves vary greatly so that no 

 one leaf could be considered typical the outlines of more than one 

 are drawn. 



Whether all the species here described and named are finally 

 recognized as species makes very little difference, the main object 

 of the paper being to call attention to these plants so as to interest 

 others in the numerous forms and provoke study and observation 

 in the field. Except in a few instances, a series of specimens has 

 not been available for examination. It would be well for the stu- 

 dent to examine many flowers on the same plant and on many 

 plants of similar appearance in any one locality to learn whether 

 the form of the scales of the corolla is an individual or specific 

 characteristic. In all cases where a series has come under the 



duncles shorter than the leaves, reflexed, at least in fruit : calyx 1-2 mm. long, its 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, the appendages lanceolate, acute, about one half as long 

 as the lobes : corolla broadly campanulate, slightly exceeding the calyx or sometimes 

 shorter : internal scales none : filaments about as long as the corolla tubes : anthers 

 ovate: ovary globular-ovate, hispid: stigmas sessile: capsule depressed, and just be- 

 fore dehiscence slightly compressed : seeds 4, globular, 1. 5 to 2 mm. in diameter, pale 

 brown, with few or no pits, sparingly scaly and with a conspicuous but deciduous 

 caruncle. 



Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium, no. 1 671. Death Val- 

 ley Expedition; collected August 21, 1891, in Whitney Meadows, Sierra Nevada, 

 Tulare County, California, by Frederick V. Coville. 



