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but not viscid, an inch to a span high, often much branched: 

 leaves narrowly oblong, entire or with a few prominent 

 teeth, narrowed at base but sessile, a half inch or more long: 

 pedicels very slender, exceeding the leaves: calyx-teeth ob- 

 long, obtuse, ciliolate, equal : corolla 3 — 4 lines long, golden 

 yellow; the unequal lobes scarcely spreading: seeds linear, 

 5-angled. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 116; Watson, Bot. King, 225, 

 excl. syn. 31. montioides, and var. latiflorus; Gray, Bot. Cal. 

 1. c. and Syn. Fl. 1. c. in part only. 



From the Organ Mountains in New Mexico to Colorado, 

 and westward to the Pacific Coast, but not common in Cali- 

 fornia, although very frequent just east of the Sierra in Ari- 

 zona and Nevada. Our California specimens are only the 

 following: Parish Brothers No. 1378, from the San Bernar- 

 dino Mountains, 1882, a very depauperate state, and certain 

 not much larger specimens collected in Lake County, 1884, 

 by Mrs. Cur ran. 



The common plant of the mountain districts of the eastern 

 part of the State, and northwards which has been referred 

 here is Eunanus Breweri. 



M. acutidens. 



Glabrous throughout, 3 — 8 inches high, with a few de- 

 cumbent or ascending, basal branches: stem and branches 

 wing-angled: leaves few (3 or 4 pairs on each stem or 

 branch), an inch or less long, ovate, acute, sessile by a broad 

 base, sharply toothed: pedicels twice the length of the 

 leaves: calyx slightly oblique, teeth sharply subulate, sub- 

 equal : corolla bright rose-purple, f inch long with nearly 

 cylindrical throat, and spreading limb. 



King's River Mountains, at 4,000 feet, April, 1877; Dr. 

 Gustaf Eisen. Evidently a very beautiful species, the place 

 for which is here, rather than with the red-flowered group 

 to which M. Palmeri belongs. 



M. floribundus, Dongl. 



Villous and very slimy, at first erect, at length diffuse; 



