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American species of Bolivaria ; but the filaments are short and adnate 

 almost up to the throat of the corolla. The latter is about 3 lines 

 long, and apparently yellowish tinged with pink. Stems one or two 

 feet high. 



MoNOLEPis SPATHULATA : foliis integerrimis spathulatis ; glomer- 

 ulis globosis ; utriculo pyriformi crebre papuloso-scabi'O ; semine hevis- 

 simo turgido immarginato. — Sierra Nevada, at Mono Pass, in loose 

 soil, Bolander. The seed is several times smaller than that of 31. 

 chenopodioides. 



Eriogonum spergulinum : E, pharneceoidei Torr. simillimum ; 

 pube foliorum pilosa nunquam tomentosa ; inflorescentia floribunda 

 magis effusa ; involucris multo minoribus glabris quadrifidis unifloris ; 

 perigonii laciniis exterioribus oblongis. — Dry sandy soil, banks of Big 

 Creek below the Mariposa Big-tree Grove, Bolander. Also collected 

 by the late Mr. Bridges. 



Habenaria Thurberi : H. dilatatce et hyperborece peraflfinis ; spica 

 angustissima ; sepalo postico rotundo-ovato ; labello angusto lineari e 

 basi baud dilatata defiexo sepalis duplo longiore calcare filiformi ova- 

 rium ada3quante vel superante pauUo breviore ; glandulis stigraatis 

 ovalibus. — Arizona, Thurber (925), C. Wright (1,900), referred by 

 Dr. Torrey in Bot. Mex. Bound., to Platanthera leucostachys, Lindl., 

 which I take to be a form of P. dilatata. A variety of this with 

 more slender and loose spike of aj^parently more greenish flowers 

 is 6251 of Bolander's collection, from near the Mariposa Grove and 

 Yoseraite Valley. 



Cypripedium Californicum : puberulum ; caule folioso (ad ses- 

 quipedalem) ; foliis inferioribus late ovalibus ovatisque, superioribus 

 lanceolatis ; floribus 4—6 dissitis folio brevioribus ochroleucis, sepalis 

 (postico e duobus conflato integerrimo rariusve apice bilobo) l^tissime 

 ovalibus petala lato-linearia obtusa plana labelluraque obovato-globosum 

 adiequantibus ; stamine sterili fornicato. — Swamps on Red Mountains, 

 Mendocino Co., Bolander. Flowers most like, and rather smaller than, 

 those of G, passerinum. 



Brodi^a coccinea {Brevoortia Ida-Maia, A. Wood in Proceed. 

 Acad. Philad. June, 1867): scapo elato ; umbella 5-12-floro; peri- 

 gonio infundibulari-cylindraceo ventricoso pedicello tenui duplo longiore 

 coccineo, lobis viridulis mox flavidis ovatis recurvis tubo multo brevi- 

 oribus squamis faucialibus latissimis erosulis (antheras 3 sessiles sub- 

 aequantibus) snbduplo longioribus ; stigmate trifido, lobis emarginatis. 



