1898.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 385 



RANUNCULACEJE. 



44. Ranunculus Cymbalaria Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept., II, 392 ; DC. Syst. I, 252 ; 



Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot., I, 16. 



Distributed from Canada to the Argentine Republic, also in 

 Northern Asia and Europe. Ditches near Lake Xochimilcho, 

 Aug. 15 (79). 



SCROPHULARIACE.aj. 



45. Escobedea (linearis) laevis Cham & Schlecht in Linm-ea, V, (1S30), 108; DC. 



Prodr., X, p. 337 ; Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot., II, 456, also plate. 



Recorded from a number of localities in South Mexico. Lake 

 Xochimilcho on the chinampas. Flowers white. Aug. 15 (90). 



LOBELIACE^l. 



46. Lobelia fulgens Willd. Hort. Berol., t. 85 ; DC. Prodr., VII, 382; Biol. Centr. 



Amer. Bot.. 11,267. 



Lobelia splendent Willd., Hort. Berol., t. 86 ; A. Gr., Synop. Fl. N. Am. II, 

 3; Bot. Mag., t. 4,9K0 (var. ignea). 



From Texas to Panama throughout Mexico. Lake Xochimilcho 

 on chinampas, Aug. 15 (89). 



COMPOSITE. 



47. Solidago pamculata DC. Prodr., V, 340 ; Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot., II, 116. 

 S. Mexicana H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et. Sp., IV, 104? 



Lake Xochimilcho on chinampas, Aug. 15 (95). 



48. Cnicus linearifolius Watson. 



Lake Xochimilcho on chinampas, Aug. 15 (99). 



49. Bidens chrysanthemoides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am., II, 136; Torr. & Gr., Fl. N. 



Am., II, 352; Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot., II, 201. 



Common from Canada throughout the United States east of the 

 Rocky Mountains and in Arizona, California and North Mexico. 

 Lake Xochimilcho on chinampas, Aug. 15 (102). 



D. Cerro de Guadalupe, Valley of Mexico. 



LILIACEJE. 



50. Milla biflora Cav. Ic, II, 76, t. 196; S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad., XIV, 240, 



et XVIII, 165; Bot. Reg.,t. 1,555. 



Found in New Mexico, South Arizona, North and South Mexico. 

 Cerro de Guadalupe growing on exposed rocky faces of the hill in 

 small soil pockets, Aug. 18 (108). 



