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same group with M. bicolor, montioides, aud rubellus. The placenta 

 splits at the apex. Collected by Dr. E. Palmer (n. 17G) in June, 

 L888, on the drier edges of low wet places in Long Meadow, Tulare 

 Co., California. 



Louteridium Donnell-Smithii, Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 23. 

 283. In the description of this curious Guatemalan genus the calyx 

 is inadvertently described as inverted. It is of course the three upper 

 sepals that are united into one, the two lower remaining distinct. 

 The same plant has since been detected in my own collection made in 

 Guatemala in March, 1885, — found in flower at the plantation on the 

 Chocou River and noted as growing from 3 to 9 feet high. 



Eriogonum: (Ganysma) Es.meraldense. Leaves all radical, 

 hispid, especially on the margins, round-obovate, cuneate at base, 

 small (an inch long including the petiole), the rest of the plant wholly 

 glabrous and glaucous : stem slender, repeatedly dichotomous above ; 

 bracts small, deltoid to oblong ; pedicels very slender, 2 or 3 lines 

 long, mostly strongly reflexed : involucres narrowly turbinate, .1 line 

 long, cleft to the middle : flowers glabrous, white or pinkish, the 

 oblong to oblong-spatulate segments nearly ecpial, retuse or obtuse, 

 ^ line long. — Near E. glandulosum, but wholly destitute of glands. 

 Found by Mr. W. H. Shockley, July, 1888, in Esmeralda Co., Nevada, 

 at Candelaiia, and on Miller Mountain at 7,000 feet altitude. 



Eriogonum (Oregoxium) gracilipes. A dwarf cespitose per- 

 ennial, with compactly branched caudex and crowded oblanceolate 

 tomentose leaves, ^ inch long or less : peduncles slender, % to 2 inches 

 long, glandular-puberulent : involucres few in the small solitary head, 

 turbinate, tomentose : flower glabrous, more or less deep rose-color, 

 exserted. — Of the E. Kennedyi group, distinguished most conspicu- 

 ously by the glandular-puberulent peduncle. On the White .Moun- 

 tains, Mono Co., California, at 13,000 feet altitude; W. II. Shockley, 

 August, 1888. 



Ne.uastylis Prixglet. Stem a span high, terete, usually simple, 

 1-leaved near or above the middle: radical leaves shorter than tli<' 

 stem, 1 or 2 lines broad, 2-3-nerved (the nerves somewhat winged 

 alternately on the two sides) ; spathe-bracts unequal, the larger 

 nearly equalling the solitary pedicel, 1 \ inches long: flowers very 

 fragrant, of a delieate pale blue, the segments oblong-oblanceolate, 

 obtusish, the outer 15 lines and the inner 13 lines Ion-, minutely 

 apiculate : stamineal column nearly 2 lines long, half the length «-t 

 the linear yellow anthers: divergent Btigma-lobes 1! line, long: 

 capsule oblong, 5 to 10 lines long. — Collected by -Mr. ('. <;. Pringle 



