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veined, scabrous-ciliate on the margins, elsewhere smooth, 1.5-2 (2.5) 

 mm. wide, 1-3 dm. long; stem 2.7-6 dm. high, slender, glabrous, 

 simple, bearing 3-6 bracts ; pedicels jointed near the base, in fruit 

 10-14 mm. long ; filaments moderately roughened, shorter than the 

 anthers; capsule oblong, 3-3.5 mm. wide, 7 mm. long. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xl. 28 (1904). — Mexico : State of Jalisco, dry calcareous hills 

 above Etzatlan, 2000 m., 24 Oct., 1904, Pringle, no. 8812 ; grassy 

 plains near Guadalajara, 1500 m., 4 Oct., 1903, Pringle, no. 11,715 ; 

 hillsides of Zapotlan, alt. about 1500 m., Aug. 8, 1905, P. Goldsmith, 

 no. 122 ; near Etzatlan, Oct. 2, 1903, Rose & Painter, no. 7544 (in 

 IT. S. Nat. Herb.). 



Excluded Specees. 



E. eleutherandra K. Koch, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. App. 4 (1861) = 

 Anthericum echeandioides, ace. to Baker. 



E. graminea Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. ix. 387 (1842) = 

 A nthericum leptophyllum. 



E. leptophylla Benth. PI. Hartw. 25 (1840)= Anthericum leptophyl- 

 lum. 



E. scabrella Walp. Ann. iii. 1010 (1853)= Anthericum scabrellum. 



E. pusilla Brandegee, Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot. iii. 377 (1909) =form of 

 A nthericum leptophyllum. 



II. SPERMATOPHYTES, NEW OR RECLASSIFIED, CHIEFLY 

 RUBIACEAE AND GENTIANACEAE. 



By B. L. Robinson. 



Ranunculus trisectus Eastwood, n. sp., 1 glaber vel paulo pilosus 

 1-2 dm. altus simplex vel 2-3-ramosus, ramis ascendentibus ; foliis 

 radicalibus orbicularibus trisectis, diametro 2-3 cm., basi reniformi- 

 bus cum sinu saepissime angusto ; segmentis approximatis, medio late 

 cuneato, lateralibus inaequaliter bipartitis, superiore parte trilobata 

 majore ; omnibus lobulis similibus oblongis 2-3 mm. latis duplo longi- 

 oribus, apice et basi callosis, sinubus obtusis; petiolis striatis basi 

 membranaceis dilatatis et persistentibus ; foliis caulinis 1-3 sessilibus 

 vel breviter petiolatis 3-5-sectis, segmentis integris vel lobatis, ultimis 

 lobulis oblongo-linearibus ad apicem et sinum callosis, basi petiolorum 

 vel foliorum membranaceo amplexicauli ; pedunculis altis, fructiferis 



1 This species, elaborated by Miss Alice Eastwood from material in the 

 Gray Herbarium, is here published at her request. 



