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Drymaria villosa, Schlecht. Rio Blanco, in wet shaded places ; 

 August. (748.) 



Malva parviflora, Linn. Rio Blanco, in moist bottoms ; June. 

 (48.) 



Malvastrum spicatum, Gray. Chapala, on hillsides among 

 underbrush. (707.) 



Anoda incarnata, HBK. The specimens agree nearly with the 

 description of this species, which is known only from plants cultivated 

 in gardens at the city of Mexico. The leaves, however, are not 

 canescent beneath, and the carpels are ten instead of twelve. Rio 

 Blanco, in a caiion ; September. (604.) 



SiDA DIFFUSA, HBK. Guadalajara, hillsides and dry bottoms ; 

 August. (257.) 



MoDiOLA MULTIFIDA, Moench. Rio Blanco ; June. (56.) 



KosTELETZKVA PANICULATA, Benth. Five feet high, very hir- 

 sute, the panicled flowers with purplish accrescent calyx and large 

 yellow corolla. Rio Bianco, in a deep ravine among bushes ; August. 

 (328.) 



GossYPimi Barbadense, Linn. A cultivated plant, four years 

 old, the seed from the " Laguna desert cotton country " in Coahuila. 

 Rio Blanco ; June. (10.) 



BojiBAx Palmeri. a tree, 15 to 20 feet high, with a short 

 stout trunk (2 or 3 feet in diameter), very scaly bai'k, and widely 

 spreading branches : leaves 3-5-foliolate, densely tomentose beneath 

 (as also the petiole, 2 or 3 lines long), loosely stellate-pubescent 

 above, the leaflets on very short densely pubescent petiolules, obo- 

 vate or oblong-obovate, 5 to 7 inches long by 3 to 5 wide, the two 

 lower (of five) smaller and suborbicular : pedicel stout, an inch long : 

 calyx truncate, glabrous, ^ inch long: capsule glabrous, narrowly 

 oblong, 5 or 6 inches long by 1^ thick : seeds oblong-ovate, 3 lines 

 long. Barranca, on mountain sides. (134.) 



Physodiuii corymbosum, Presl. A large widely spreading 

 shrub. Barranca, at the base of the mountains. (86.) 



Melochia hirsuta, Cav., var. serrata, Schauer; fide Gray. 

 Guadalajara, among grass ; July. (287.) 



INIklochia pyramidata, Linn. Tequila, among bananas. (371.) 



GuAZUMA TOMENTOSA, HBK. A shrub, 10 feet high. Barranca. 

 (91.) 



Ayenia glabra, a shrub, 3 or 4 feet high, glabrous throughout 

 or very slightly puberulcnt : leaves ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 cordate at base, coarsely serrate, 3 or 4 inches long on petioles a 



