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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



Fig. 1. 



Mir a bills L. 

 M. Californica Gray, Var. villosa Kellogg. 



Stem about a foot in height, somewhat ascending, flexuous, divaricately 

 branching, nodose, internodes slightly curved ; minutely villous throughout. 

 Leaves rounded-cordate, obtuse, entire, three to five-nerved ; the uppermost 

 ovate-cordate, petioles short, (one-fourth to one-sixth the length of the lamina. 



Flowers pedicellate, in loose terminal dichotomous panicles, with a solitary 

 flower in the axils ; perigonium pink, pedicels recurved in fruit. 



This plant, from the interior — Devil's Gate and Carson River — differs much 

 from the plate of the coast plant of the Mexican Boundary Report. It is not 

 at all " glabrous," nor are the flowers " sub-sessile ;" the pairs of leaves are 

 remote, with a much more open and spreading aspect ; the flowers are pentan- 

 drous and deciduous. 



