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belonging to that section, as is possessed by the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Phlox a^istromontana Coville — " The No. 1839 Parish." which 

 he includes in the type bears on the label " Phlox speciosa Pursh, 

 var. congesta Gray (var. nov.), June, 1886. 



In his remarks on Macrocalyx viicrajithiis, Mr. Coville has 

 evidently overlooked the notice in "Plants from Baja Califor- 

 nia," Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, ii, 186. 



Conantlius aretioides is reduced to Nama as Marilminidiunt 

 aretioides. If in obedience to Kuntze, Nama is applied to a 

 different genus, one would think that Conanthus being reduced, 

 it and not Marilaunidium should be the accepted name for Nama. 



Mohavea brevi flora can hardly be specifically distinct. Speci- 

 mens oi M. viscida with leaves as broad and nearl}'^ as short were 

 .sent by the writer to Gray in 1884. — They were collected at 

 Amboy Station on the Mojave Desert. Mr. Brandegee collected 

 the form described by Mr. Coville, at Keeler, in April, 1891 — 

 some of the corollas were conspicuously dotted while in others 

 growing beside them the purple dots were nearly or quite wanting- 



Sarcobatus Baileyi Coville, is founded on dwarfed and perhaps 

 diseased specimens, for the large fruiting bracts contain not even 

 the rudiment of an ovary. Our specimens of ^S". vermiadaris do 

 not sustain the remarks of the author, for the female flowers are 

 as Bentham & Hooker say, axillary and solitary on leafy shoots 

 of all lengths from 5 mm. to i dm. long — of course the longer the 

 fruiting branch is the more flowers will be found upon it. There is 

 certainly no such thing in any of our specimens as a "floral 

 axis" of the female flowers, the fruiting branches are normally 

 terminated bj^ the male spike but it is often wanting, and the 

 bushes seem even to be occasionally dioecious. If this stunted 

 pubescent form deserved specific rank it would have Sarcobatus 

 Maximiliani Nees, figured in Bot. Zeitung, vol. ii, 753, t. vii. 



The new genus Phyllogonum can hardly be considered 

 sufficiently distant from Nuttall's Stenogonum, in which though 

 the single species is now referred to Eriogontmi, the involucre is 

 a very variable quantity, Nuttall said it had none. The embryo 

 of Phjdlogonum is described as "nearly straight, radicle lying 

 along one angle of the seed; cotyledons orbicular, lying at the 



