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which are both scanty and imperfect. Attention being thus directed to 

 them, perhaps these materials may be supplemented from some other 



the latter, I believe, like the filaments, wholly glabrous ; the lobes in both not cilio- 

 late. Anthers oval. 



Var. /?. ? BiGELOvii : pedicellis abbreviatis calyce subturbinato (2 lin. longo) 

 Aagis dentato vix a^quilongis ; filamentis corollaque intus basi parce hirsutulis. — 

 Canons of Williams's Fork of the Colorado, Dr. Bigelow. Perhaps a distinct spe- 

 cies ; but, as it was collected with one of the above specimens, and the materials of 

 all three are scanty, I cannot venture to consider it so. 



■t--i- Glabrum : filamenta basi villosa : pulvilli fasciculorum foliorum ssepius lanu- 

 losi. — Species a longifloris ad brevifloras ordiuatae. 



8. L. ToRRKTi {L. barbinode, Torr. in Pacif. R. R. Exped. 5, p. 363, & Bot. Mex. 

 Bound, p. 154, non Miers, Monogr.) : foliis lanceolato-spathulatis crassiusculis 

 (semi-subsesquipollicaribus) ; pedicellis fasciculatis (2-5 lin. longis) ; floribus 

 pentameris; corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformi (5-6 lin. longa) calyce subsequaliter 

 5-dentato quadruplo longiori, lobis suis tomentoso-ciliatis. — Texas, on the Rio 

 Grande, to Fort Yuma, interior of California, along the Mexican boundary, collected 

 by Fremont, Major Thomas, Thurber, Bigelow, Schott, and "Wright (1609, in 

 herb. Gray, probably an error, as L. pnberulum bears this number also : 1604 and 

 1608 in herb. Torn, but I have no Lycium under the former number). Calyx cam- 

 panulate ; the teeth about a third or more of the length of the tube, often tomen- 

 tulose-ciJiate. Lobes of the " blue or purple " corolla always bordered by a fine 

 white tomentum, the throat or portion above the insertion of the stamens elongated 

 and narrow, very gradually enlarging upwards, about one third of the length of 

 the tube, nearly equalling the stamens. The flowers abundantly distinguish this 

 species from the next, — for which, however, Mr. Miers mistook an insufficient 

 specimen in herb. Torrey. We now have it in great abundance. 



9. L. BARBiNODUM (Micrs, I.e. p. 115, t. 68, E.) : foliis lineari-spathulatis (semi- 

 subpoUicaribus) ; pedicellis (sesquilineam longis) calycem sequantibus; floribus 

 pentameris; corolla e tubo angusto superne campanulata (3 lin. longa) calyce 

 ssepius fisso duplo - subtriplo longiori, lobis brevibus parce pilosulo-ciliatis. — Mexico, 

 on the table land of Durango, Seemann, 2090. Unless a specimen of Thurber's col- 

 lection from Sonora, in fruit only, belongs here, this species is known solely from 

 Seemann's specimens : from one of these the above character is derived. It will be 

 found to accord well with the description published by Miers, but not, as respects 

 the shape of the corolla, with his figure. We ought not to rely too much upon this 

 (as the following species shows) ; but the phrase " corolla tubo imo coarctato, hinc 

 repente campanulato . . . laciniis . . . margine subciliatis," accords perfectly 

 with an authentic specimen in my herbarium. The corolla, moreover, is only about 

 half the length of that of the preceding species. 



10. L. Berlandieri (Dunal in DC. L.stolidum Sp L. senticosum, Miers, 1. c.) : 

 foliis lineari-spathulatis seu linearibus basi attenuatis (4-7 lin. longis); floribus 

 saepissime tetrameris pedicello (1^-3 lin.) subduplo vel parum longioribus; corolla 

 (3-3|^lin. longa) infundibuliformi fauce ampliata calyce brevi 3-4-plo longiori 



