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G. grandiflora. In a dry ravine near the town of Comitan, 

 province of Chiapas, Mexico, in a temperate region, Dr. Ghiesbreght. 

 — Young branches, foliage, etc., clothed with a fine soft pubescence. 

 Leaves rather crowded, oval or oblong, about 2\ inches long, thickish, 

 pinnately veined, few-toothed near the obtuse or barely acute apex, 

 narrowed at the base into a short petiole. Peduncles solitary, an inch 

 long, wholly bractless. Segments of the calyx nearly an inch in 

 length, equal. Corolla nearly 3 inches long, glabrous within and most- 

 ly so without ; the tube inflated from the very base ; the upper lip 

 broad, somewhat arching, 2-lobed at the summit ; the divisions of the 

 lower lip narrower, but of nearly the same length. Stamens equalling 

 the upper lip of the corolla. Anthers at first hippocrepiform, the cells 

 at length divaricate, dehiscent by a continuous line. Capsule of firm 

 texture, an inch long, ovate, didymous, acute, 4-valved at the apex. 

 Seeds minute, somewhat scobiform, smooth. 



Apparently a remarkable new genus, which would naturally be re- 

 ferred to the Chelonece, except for the simple ebracteolate peduncles, 

 and the slightly if at all imbricated sepals. 



Scutellaria parvula Michx., var. mollis. Diffusa, majuscula 

 undique molliter pubescens, pube subviscida; foliis saepe |-pollicari- 

 bus. — Oquawka, Illinois, on the sandy banks of the Mississippi, H. N. 

 Patterson. — So different in aspect is this plant from the ordinary S. 

 parvula (which occurs in the vicinity), that I at first took it for S. 

 Drummondii, and then for a distinct species ; but I cannot detect suf- 

 ficient characters ; and these are transitions to the ordinary S. parvula. 

 It produces similar moniliform strings of small tubers, each internorl<> 

 to the number of 8 or 10 thickening. 



Eriogonum villiflorum. Acaule, pulvinato-casspitosum, sericeo- 

 villosum ; foliis in caudice multicipiti subcrasso rosulato-confertissimis 

 spathulato lanceolatis (lin. 3-5 longis) albo-sericeis marginibus sub- 

 revolutis ; scapo pollicari nudo ; cyma capituliformi oligocephala 

 bracteis linearibus 4-5 capitula breviter pedicellata paullo breviora 

 involucrantibus stipata ; involucris 6 - 8-fidis ; perigonio campanulato 

 (fundo lato) extus intusque sericeo ad medium usque 6-fido, lobis 

 a?qualibus albidis costa valida instructis ; genitalibus glabris. — Kane 

 County, Southern Utah, collected by Mr. Siler, communicated by 

 Thomas Meehan. — A remarkable species, which, if the ovary were 

 woolly, would be referred to the Laclinogyna section, .but which ac- 

 tually seems, on the whole, to represent an acaulescent division of the 

 Fasciculata. 



