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than the tube, with like colored tips. Corolla j'ellowish white vary- 

 ing to nearly yellow, especially the sacs, nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx-teeth, the tube |^ to | in. long, slender, the sacs very protu- 

 berant, usually fully as deep as long; upper lip short, erect, trian- 

 gular, scarcely longer than the three erect, oblong or oval teeth of 

 the lower lip. Stamens all with 2 -celled anthers, the longer and 

 stouter pair included in and not much shorter than the upper lip. 

 Style smooth. Stigma globular, sometimes slightly 2-lobed. Cap- 

 sule ovoid, glabrous, filling the calyx-tube. Seeds irregularly 

 flattened and wrinkled with loose seed coat. 



This species differs from most of the species of Triphysaria in the 

 heads rather than spikes, showy with the colored tips of the bracts 

 and calyx-teeth. Grassy places in the foot-hills. March to May. 



Mariposa, California. 



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Sebastiana (?) BILOCULARI8, Wats. This species of north- 

 western Mexico, described by Dr. Watson (Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 

 374) from Sonoran specimens of Thurber and Pringle, has recently 

 been discovered at Gila Bend in Arizona by Dr. H. E. Hasse, who 

 has thus added a plant of more than usual interest to the arbores- 

 cent flora of the United States. The specimen observed at Gila 

 Bend (of which some flowering and fruiting branches have been 

 sent to the Gray Herbarium) was an isolated individual growing on 

 a desert mesa; but Dr. Hasse writes, that he has been told by per- 

 sons familiar with the region, that the plant is not uncommon in the 

 Dragoon and Huachuca Mountains. It is the "palo fleche" or 

 "yerba de fleche," with which the Apache- Indians are said to have 

 poisoned their arrows. — B. L. Robinson. 



Correction in Aragallus. — Since the publication of my paper 

 on Aragallus in the June number of Erythea, I find that there is 

 an Oxytropis alhiflora Bunge, As this may sometimes be trans- 



