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9. ROMANZOFFIA Cham. 



1. R. Unalaschkensis Cham. Hand tuberifera? laxe pubescens 

 vel glabrata ; scapo firmiore erecto ; jjeclicellis suberectis flore breviori- 

 bus ; sepalis herbaceis corolla breviter-infuudibuliformi parum breviori- 

 bus capsulam subsuperantibus ; stylo brevi. — Unalaschka and adjacent 

 islands, Chamisso, Nelson, Harrington, Dall. 



2. R. SiTCHENSis Bongard. Parum pubescens, glabrata; rhizoma- 

 tibus filiformibus granulato-tuberiferis ; scapo debili ; pedicellis patenti- 

 bus flore longioribus ; sepalis glabris corolla longiuscule infundibuliformi 

 multum cajisula satis brevioribus ; stylo filiformi longo. — Sitka to the 

 Coast Range of California, as far south as the Redwoods grow. 



10. IIESPEROCHIRON S. Watson. 



The suggestion that this genus belongs to the Hydrophyllacece origi- 

 nated with Mr. Bentham. It falls into the Phacelice, where, however, 

 it finds no near associates, and the inflorescence is anomalous. 



1. II. Californicus "Wats. Bot. King, p. 281, t. 30. Foliis rosu- 

 latis e caudice subcrasso ; corolla oblongo-campanulata, lobis tubo brevi- 

 oribus. — Oiirisia Calif ornica Benth. PL Ilartw. Hesperochiron 

 latifoUus Kellogg in Proc. Calif. Acad. : forma vegetior. — Sierra 

 Nevada, California, to Utah, and Washington Territory. 



2. H. PUMiLUS Porter in Hayden, Rep. 1872, p. 768. Foliis pau- 

 cioribus ex apice rhizomatis gracilioris ; corolla fere rotata, lobis tubo 

 intus crebre barbato longioribus. — Villarsia puniila Griseb. in Hook. 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. 2, p. 70, t. 157. — Idaho, Northern Utah, and westward. 

 The two species occupy in part the same tract of country, and it re- 

 mains to be seen if the characters assigned will hold good. 



11. NAMA Linn. 



The generic name, both in Latin and Greek, is of the neuter gender. 

 A few corrections of my recent synopsis of the species in Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 8, p. 282, need to be made : otherwise there is nothing to add 

 here. Only seven species are known within the limits of the United 

 States. In distinguishing into two s[)ecies the Berlandieran specimens 

 which Choisy had referred to N. undulatum, I took the wrong species 

 for the true N. undulatum HBK. The nomenclature and chai'acters 

 have to be rectified thus : — 



N. UNDULATUM HBK. Subcrectum, mox decumbcns ; capsula ob- 

 longa sepalis pi. m. breviore; seminibus ovalibus, testa tenui diaphana 

 obsoletius striata et scrobiculata. — Var. macuanthum Chois. Ilvdrol. 



