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in Bahia as nearer to the section AcJnjropappus of that genus than to 

 Schkahria § Hopkirkia, especially in the characters of . the involucre 

 and achene. Found by Dr. E. Palmer (n. 168) on low slopes and 

 ridges in Long Meadow, Tulare Co., California, June, 1888. 



Cacalia tussilaginoides, HBK. In the notes made by Dr. 

 Gray (as given in these Proceedings, vol xxii. p. 432) upon the speci- 

 mens collected by Dr. Palmer in Jalisco (n. 168, of 188G), which he 

 referred with some uncertainty to this species, the words " ex char." 

 should have been erased in the proof-reading. These were in his 

 notes as sent from the Kew Herbarium, where he had found only the 

 Coulter specimen to which he alludes. Later, he examined at Paris 

 Humboldt's original specimens upon which the species was based, with 

 the result that he directed the retention of the reference, though leav- 

 ing it still questionable. 



MiCROSERis ANOMALA, Watson, in Proc. Amer. Acad., 22. 474. 

 This species was described under a misapprehension of the character 

 of the pappus. It is without a doubt a form of 31. macrochceta, 

 Gray. The mature fruit of this species is still unknown. 



CoLLiNSiA Wrightii. Low and divaricately branching (3 or 4 

 inches high) , glandular-pubescent and viscid : leaves opposite, linear- 

 oblong or -lanceolate, entire, about an inch long : flowers pedicellate, 



1 or 2 in the axils, the uppermost in a naked umbel ; calyx 2 lines . 

 long, the narrow lobes obtusish ; corolla but little longer, the tube and 

 throat shorter than the broad obtuse lobes of the limb, the lower lip 

 blue, the upper yellowish : capsule equalling or a little shorter than 

 the calyx, 2-seeded : seeds oblong, nearly terete, with a deep ventral 

 sulcus. — Near G. Torreyi^ with the habit and flowers of C. parvi- 

 jiora. On the Greenhorn Mountains, Kern County, California, at 



6,000 to 7,000 feet altitude ; collected by Mr. W. G. Wright and 

 Dr. E.. Palmer in June, 1888. 



MiMULUS (EuMiMULUs) DEFLExus. A dwarf slender annual, 2 or 

 3 inches high, sparingly viscid-puberulent : leaves linear to liuear- 

 oblong, entire, less than \ inch long : pedicels exceeding the leaves, 

 soon widely spreading or usually reflexed : calyx glabi-ous, narrow, 

 not strongly nerved or angled, nearly equally and obtusely toothed, 



2 to 1h lines long ; corolla 6 or 7 lines long, the narrow tube nearly 

 twice the length of the calyx, the broad limb deeply bilabiate ; 

 upper lip deep purple, with emarginate lobes, the lower deep yellow 

 with bifid lobes, somewhat hairy and spotted below : capsule ItV 

 lines long : seeds brownish, irregularly ovate to oblong ovate, some- 

 what rugulose longitudinally. — A very pretty little species, of the 



