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CEnothera biennis or grandiflora, in the first season of its 

 growth. 



3714. " Eriophyllum obovatum, Greene," Evidently sup- 

 posed by Mr. Parish to be fairly typical, while it is so far 

 from it, that I should scarcely admit it as of this species. 

 Indeed, I should have referred it at first glance to E. 

 ccespHosum. It has not at all the mode of branching, or the 

 broad thick leaves, or the dense white tomentum of E. 

 obovatum. 



3716. " Eriophyllum obovatum, Greene, forma ? " And 

 this, which the collector ventures to doubt about, is of the 

 habit of true E. obovatum ; is really much nearer that type 

 than is the preceding. Though it is more leafy, with 

 narrower and thinner leaves, and also lacks the remarkable 

 dense white tomentum of the type, I should refer it to the 

 species ; but it is only a poor representative of it. 



3604. Senecio ionophyllus, Greene. Good representa- 

 tion of a species which appears as if quite limited in its 

 range. 



3726. " Dodecatheon Jeffreyi, Moore." Not so, but only 

 very large and fine specimens of the perfectly distinct D. 

 ALPINUM, Greene, Erythea, iii. 39, where the marked differ- 

 ences in the underground parts of the two species, as well as 

 the relatively small and very narrow leaves of the latter are 

 for the first time brought to notice. The species is of the 

 Californian Sierra exclusively, it seems, and these San 

 Bernardino Mountain specimens are of the most southerly 

 habitat as yet recorded ; nor will the subalpine conditions 

 demanded by the species be found to recur much further 

 southward. 



3757. Indicated as a new variety of " Mirabilis Califor- 

 nica,^^ but a good species which may be called: 

 J Mirabilis aspera. Stout, low, scabrous-hispidulous and 

 viscid throughout ; the somewhat fleshy leaves cordate- 



