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corolla a half inch long, salmon color, changing to orange 

 in drying: pod terete, silky-pubescent, an inch long. 



Lower California; collected in the Cantillas Mountains, 

 October, 1884, by Mr. C. R. Orcut; also at Cape San Quen- 

 tin, May, 1885, by the writer. 



Hosackia (Euhosackia) mollis. 



Densely soft-pubescent, with short, spreading hairs: root 

 perennial: stems numerous, rather slender, a foot long, 

 or nearly so: stipular glands small: leaflets 3 — 5, narrowly 

 oblong to linear, acute, palmately crowded on a very short 

 rachis: peduncles an inch or two long, erect; umbels about 

 2-flowered, the subtending bract when present narrowly 

 linear: calyx-teeth linear-subulate, longer than the tube: 

 corolla a half inch long: light yellow, drying reddish: pod 

 an inch or more in length, terete, velvety-pubescent. 



Grassy places among the lower mountain districts of the 

 southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona, and in adjacent 

 Mexico. Lemmon, No. 2669, Huachuca Mts. Also col- 

 lected by Rusby, the writer, and others. 



Hosackia (Syrmatium) ornithopus. 



Densely silky: stems erect-spreading, a foot high, from a 

 suffrutescent base, much branched above : leaflets 5 — 7, ob- 

 long, 3 — 6 lines long, acute at each end: umbels numerous, 

 12 — 20-flowered, on short, erect, simple-bracted peduncles: 

 calyx-teeth subulate, half as long as the tube : pod thrice 

 the length of the calyx, rostrate-attenuate, strongly curved 

 upwards, strongly pubescent, 2 — 3-seeded: seed slightly 

 curved. 



Frequent in the middle of Guadalupe Island, and no 

 doubt the H. argophylla of Mr. "Watson's list. Dried speci- 

 mens would hardly show the peculiar erect-spreading habit: 

 but fruiting ones could hardly with their long exserted, 

 curved pods, resembling bird's claws, be confounded with 

 H. argophylla. The pubescence of the calyx is denser, and 

 spreading, not appressed as in that species. 



