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The specimens show only the upper parts of the stem, 

 with leaves and flowers. They are from Scammon's Lagoon, 

 on the peninsula of Lower California, and thus the range of 

 the genus is extended still farther westward. The name of 

 the collector is unknown- 



Wyethia reticulata. 



Near W. ovata, green and shining, scabrous but not pubes- 

 cent; stems 2 feet high, mostly simple, rigid but slender, 

 leafy to the summit: leaves broadly ovate, often somewhat 

 cordate, acute, 3 — 5 inches long, on petioles an inch in length, 

 scabrous above, strongly veined and reticulated beneath, in 

 texture coriaceous: heads small, terminating the stem and 

 its few corymbose branches : involucral scales broadly lan- 

 ceolate, more or less spreading: akenes 3 lines long, glab- 

 rous, and bearing for a pappus a very short, lacerate-toothed 

 crown, without awns. 



Collected on Sweetwater Creek, in El Dorado Counta\ 

 Cal., July, 1883, by our most zealous and successful Mrs. 

 Kate Layne Curran. 



Mimulus barbatus. 



Annual, glandular puberulent, an inch high and much 

 branched : leaves oblong : pedicels, 4 — 8 lines long, exceeding 

 the leaves: calyx-teeth broadly triangular-ovate, mucronate- 

 tipped, nearly or quite equal and spreading : corolla yellow, 

 the very slender tube nearly twice as long as the calyx, the 

 limb ample, the lower lip strongly and conspicuously beard- 

 ed, the upper less so. 



A very dwarf species, probably of the Eunanus section, 

 though the flowers are conspicuously pedicellate. The 

 densely bearded corolla is a marked peculiarity. There is but 

 a single specimen known, and that exists in the herbarium 

 without date or locality or name of collector. 



Mimulus mephiticus. 



Near M. nanus, but only an inch or two high and very 

 slender; lowest leaves ovate, the upper from oblong to 

 lanceolate; teeth of the calyx triangular-lanceolate; corolla 



