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Phrynosoma douglassi pygmaea, sub^p. nov. 



Ill 1878 Mr. H. W. Hensbaw forwarded to the National Museum, 

 from the vicinity of Des Chutes River, Oregon, a number of horned 

 lizards, which, though adults, are smaller than any know n species of 

 Phrynosoma. In 1881 Capt. Chas. Bendire, U. S. A., forwarded from 

 Fort Walla Walla, Wash, Ter., the same species. A number of spec- 

 imens have been found in the National Museum collection of reptiles 

 from Fort Steilacoom. While resembling P. douglassi in many partic- 

 ulars, still there are many dissimilar characters, and the name is pro- 

 posed as given above. Head more elongated and less flat above than 

 in P. douglassi, superciliary ridges more strongly marked. Occipital 

 and temporal spines, considering size, more acute and longer. 



Body almost circular when viewed from above, not so long as in P. 

 douglassi; limbs small in proportion to size, hind limbs extended, almost 

 reaching axilla. Inframaxillaiy series of scales eight in number, not 

 nine as in P. douglassi, separated from lower labials by two rows of 

 subcircular scales, in each of which a well developed pore may be seen. 

 Femoral pores very minute. 



Color above dark gray, with a double series of six black blotches, 

 posteriorly margined with light gray. Chin and upper portion of breast 

 minutely punctulated with black. The largest specimen, number 10918, 

 from Fort Walla Walla,is from tip of tail to end of nose 3-^^ inches in 

 length, IJ inches in width across belly. 



United States National Museum, 



Washington, August 14, 1882. 



CONTRIBUTIOIV TO THE MIOCENE FT.ORA OF AliASKA. 



By L. I^ESqUEREUX. 



The Miocene flora of Alaska is partly known by a memoir of Heer, 

 pubhshed in the second volume of his Arctic Flora. The memoir was 

 prepared from specimens collected by M. Furuhjelin, of Helsingfors, 

 Finland, partly in the island of Kuiu, in the vicinity of Sitka, partly at 

 Cook's Inlet, near the peninsula of Aliaska. The plants described by 

 Heer, representing 56 species, are of marked interest by their intimate 

 relation with those of Atane, in Greenland, on one side, and with those 

 of Carbon, in Wyoming and of the Bad Lands in Nevada, on the other. 

 They compose a small group which supplies an intermediate point of 



