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reflexed, two lines long; stigmas enlarged and club shaped. 

 This seems to be a good species but in view of the great vari- 

 ability in this genus I refer it here. It is about the height of the 

 type, but the leaves are half as large and the flowers twice to 

 three times as large. Collected at Pine on the edge of the Mogollon 

 Mesa northern Arizona, June 2, 1890. Characters common to the 

 type species and this are the long pedicels, narrow and very acute 

 calyx lobes, equaling the corolla; greenish-speckled petals, glands 

 and scales; verticillate leaves; stamens nearly as long as the petals; 

 glands attached below the middle. Gray says in the Synoptical 

 Flora that the glands are attached above the middle, but it is 

 not true. 



Notes taken by me this year at Alta, Utah, August ty, 1893, 

 on the type species are as follows: Petals oval, five lines long, 

 three and one-half wide, a little cucuUate by the folding of the 

 tip of the petals which are very acute, petals concave; two 

 glands on each petal three lines long and one-half a line wide, they 

 run within two and one-half lines of the tip of the petal and one- 

 half a line of the base, rounded at each end and protected by 

 lacerate hair-like scales a line long; base of petals with stiff 

 scales two lines long; anthers inverted, extrorse, sagittate; stigma 

 spoon shaped, bent, single; stamens just surpassing the stigma, 

 spreading after anthesis. 



Ejnmenanthe foliosa n. sp. A close congener to E.pusilla and 

 with the same habit, frequenting alkaline soil. Deep Creek, 

 Utah, June 6, 1891, altitude 5000 feet. Minutely and rather 

 densely pubescent and somewhat glandular; blade of leaves one- 

 half inch long and one-third the slender petioles, irregularly 

 laciniate dentate, lanceolate to oblong, obtuse apex rounded; 

 leaves not fleshy, rosulate mostly; annual, much branched from 

 the base, one to three inches high; flowers single in the forks 

 and in loose racemes which equal the leaves and are floriferovis 

 from base of peduncle, three to five flowered; pedicels not longer 

 than the calyx, slender; calyx a line long in flower and two 

 lines in fruit, lobes linear and very little enlarged at apex; 

 corolla barely lobed, yellow and almost equaling the calyx, and 

 overtopping the oval or oval-oblong, rounded and obtuse capsule 

 which has a very short stj^le and is eight-seeded; seeds large, 



