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prove to be distinct. It has less cartilaginous auricles, smaller flowers, 

 and more ascending sepals, but the material at hand is over-mature 

 and has lost all its seeds. 



Juncus Pringlei, n. sp., dense caespitosus ; caulibus erectis graci- 

 libus rigidis 1.5-2.5 dm. altis sulcatis ; cataphyllis basilaribus mucro- 

 niferis stramineis, supremis laminigeris lamina 4-10 cm. longa ; inflore- 

 scentia densa 3-7-flora a bractea infima vix superata; floribus 4.5-5 

 mm. longis ; sepalis lanceolatis petala subaequantibus apice subulatis 

 dorso crassis viridibus lateribus castaneis marginibus membranaceis 

 pallidis; staminibus 6, antheris linearibus flavidis quam filamentum 

 longioribus ; fructibus trigono-ellipsoideis mucronatis nitidis pallide 

 castaneis vel olivaceis 5-6 mm. longis ; seminibus 0.4 mm. longis elli- 

 psoideis mucronatis. — Oaxaca : Cuesta de San Juan del Estado, alti- 

 tude 2125 meters, August 31, 1894, C. G. Pringle, no. 5818 (type, in 

 Gray Herb.). An interesting addition to the little group of species, 

 J. Drummondii E. Meyer, J. Parryi Engelm., and J. Hallii Engelm., 

 all of which are confined to the cordillera of western North America. 

 J. Pringlei closely simulates J. Hallii of Colorado and Utah, but 

 differs in its blunt-pointed, not refuse, capsule ; and, unlike any of its 

 three allies, it has mucronate instead of caudate-appendaged seeds. 



Scutellaria spinescens, n. sp., fruticosa 1-2 dm. alta ; caule crasso 

 tortuoso cortice cinereo, ramis implicatis rigidis spinescentibus cinereo- 

 hirtellis, pilis minutis; foliis ellipticis vel oblongis integris breve 

 petiolatis rugosis cinereo-hispidulis, majoribus 1 cm. longis ; floribus 

 axillaribus; pedicellis 5 mm. longis; calyce 2.5-3 mm. longo glanduloso- 

 hispido ; corolla curvata pilosa 2 cm. longa flava vel rubella, tubo 

 anguste cylindrico. — Coahuila : by a brook in San Lorenzo Canon, 

 near Saltillo, September 21-23, 1904, Edward Palmer, nos. 392 (type, in 

 Gray Herb.) and 394. A characteristic dwarf shrub closely simulating 

 S. suffrutescens Watson, which, however, has very minutely pulverulent 

 glandless branches, leaves, and calyx. The corolla of S. spinescens, as 

 shown by Dr. Palmer's material, is very variable in color (as is that of 

 S. suffrutescens) ; the material under no. 392 having the corolla canary- 

 yellow passing to salmon, with the galea reddish ; while no. 394 has 

 the corolla of various shades of red, with yellow only on the sides of 

 the galea. 



Salvia Sanctae-Luciae Seem. Bot. Herald, 327 (1856). In the 

 writer's synopsis of Mexican Salvias (Proc. Am. Acad. xxxv. 514), this 

 plant was placed in the Vulgares and was taken to be the same as a 

 plant of that section collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in Tepic. Sub- 

 sequently the writer has studied Seemann's original material at Kew and 

 it proves to be, not a plant of the Vulgares as stated by Seemann in the 



