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not visible: flowers solitary and sessile in the forks or terminal, the 

 latest ones loosely crowded in very leafy capitate clusters: calyx 

 green, very hispid, the lobes nearly equaling the corolla, becoming 

 scarious at base in age ; corolla pinkish, tubular, 5 mm. long, the 

 lobes very short and obtuse, very slightly dilated in the throat, 

 sparsely hispid above both within and without; stamens unequally 

 inserted, entirely included in the lower half of the tube: ovary 

 2-celled; style short, one-half the length of the corolla; mature 

 capsule oblong, 3 mm. long with about eight ventricose swellings on 

 each valve marking the position of the seeds; seeds 10-12, black, 

 wrinkled, ^ mm. long, the coats not developing mucilage when 

 wetted. 



Pasco, Franklin County, Washington, in drifting sand, collected 

 by L. F. Henderson, 2402, June 12, 1892; H. H. Hindshaw, May 

 25, 1896 ; C. V. Piper, July 11, 1897. 



Vleckia occidentals. Size and habit of V. urtirifolius ; stems 

 glabrous below, puberulent above: leaves triangular ovate, obtuse 

 or sometimes acute, coarsely sinuate-dentate, green and glabrous 

 above, canescent beneath, the petioles 10-20 mm. long; lower and 

 larger leaves 4 cm. long, gradually diminishing in size upwards: 

 spikes thick and dense, 2-8 cm. long, 2-2^ cm. thick: calyx 

 minutely puberulent, the subulate teeth tinged with violet; corolla, 

 anthers, and style tips violet; pollen green. 



Almost exactly intermediate between V. fcenicula (Pursh) and 

 V. urtictfolius Rafin., having the foliage of the former and the in- 

 florescence of the latter. Specimens examined : Kittitas County: 

 6 miles southwest of Ellensburg, June 28, 1897, A. D. E. Elmer, 

 396 (type); Wenatchee, K. Whited, 143J, June 28, 1896. Yakima 

 County: Lower Natchez Valley, L. F. Henderson, June 13, 1892; 

 mouth of Natchez River, C V. Piper, July, 1897. Douglas 

 County: between Coulee City and Waterville, W. J. Spillman, 

 May 27, 1896. 



Stachys Emersoni. Perennial, about a meter high; stems 

 glabrous or sparsely hispid on the faces, scabrous on the angles with 

 retrorse, rather long and weak papillose-based hairs : leaves about 

 six pairs, ovate, cordate or subcordate at base, obtuse, coarsely 

 crenate, sparsely pilose pubescent on both faces, 6-7 cm. long by 

 4 cm. broad; petioles 2-4 cm. long, channeled above, hirsute 



