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and in a short crowded terminal spike : calyx-lobes triangular, acute 

 or subacuminate, usually closing over the fruit ; corolla apparently 

 yellow, 2 or 3 lines long : carpels rounded and blunt. — Collected by 

 Rugel at the mouth of the Manate River, Southwestern Florida, in 

 1845, and distributed by Shuttle wm'th as a variety of Malva Ameri- 

 cana, Linn, It was also collected by Dr. Garber in 1877 on the 

 Miami River, and by A. H. Curtiss on the Mosquito Lagoon, and 

 distributed by him under the name Meloclda serrata in his third 

 fascicle. It resembles most nearly M. tricuspidutum, but with the 

 blunt carpels of M. spicatum. 



Malvastrum densiflorum. Perennial, stout, erect and branched, 

 2 feet high or more, roughly stellate-pubescent : leaves round-cordate, 

 somewhat 3-lobed, crenately or acutely toothed, 1 to 1 ^ inches in diam- 

 eter, the petioles usually much shorter : inflorescence dense and very 

 hispid, the conspicuous bractlets very narrow, hispid, exceeding the 

 calyx: fruiting calyx 6 to 8 lines long, membranous, the lobes long- 

 attenuate ; corolla apparently purple, 6 to 8 lines long : stamineal 

 column very short: carpels smooth and nearly glabrous, obtuse. — 

 Southern California, at Agua Caliente in the San Jacinto Mountains 

 (S. B. & W. F. Parish, and W. G. Wright, 1881), and at San Juan 

 Capistrano (Rev. J. C. Nevin). 



Anoda reticulata. Annual, erect, simple or sparingly branched 

 above, 2 feet high, finely stellate-pubescent: leaves broadly ovate, 

 truncate or cordate at base, and often more or less hastately lobed, 

 acute or acutish, dentate, an inch long or less, the upper linear-hastate 

 and the uppermost reduced to minute bracts : pedicels slender, 1 to 3 

 inches long: petals blue, 3 lines long, twice longer than the calyx: 

 carpels 10, truncate above and rounded on the back, with a double 

 wall, the outer wholly open at the sides, the inner enclosing the seed 

 and deciduous with it, strongly reticulated and at length perforated, 

 and dark-colored: seed a line long. — In the Santa Catalina Moun- 

 tains, Arizona; J. G. Lemmon and C. G. Pringle, May, 1881. Re- 

 markable for the character of the double-walled carpels, an approach 

 to which is also found in A. parvijio^a {A. Wrightii) . 



Hermannia pauciflora. Branching from the woody base, a foot 

 high or less, stellately pubescent : leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, cordate 

 or truncate at base, 6 lines long or less, on short petioles, dentate : 

 flowers solitary in the axils, on slender pedicels ; the yellow petals 

 (4 lines long) twice longer than the acutely lobed calyx, which is not 

 enlarged in fruit : styles distinct or coherent at the apex . capsule 4 or 

 5 lines long, the dorsal crest of the carpels with short rather blunt 



