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equalling the blade, those of the other leaves gradually shorter upwardly 

 on the stem : inflorescence terminating the stem and branches in several- 

 flowered cymose clusters ; pedicels 8 mm. or less in length, erect : 

 calyx deeply 4-parted ; divisions of the calyx lanceolate, acute, about 

 4 mm. long: corolla 8 to 10 mm. long, greenish; tube of the corolla 

 about equalling the ovate-oblong short-acuminate lobes ; spurs subper- 

 pendicular, slightly incurved at the base : capsule oblong, 12 mm. long, 

 curved above, acuminate, glabrous : seeds subspherical, 1 mm. in diam- 

 ter, smooth. — Mexico. State of Hidalgo : wet woods near Trinidad 

 Iron Works, altitude 1735 m., 11 July, 1904, C. G. Pringle, no. 8939 

 (hb. Gr.). 



Phacelia Coulteri, n. sp. An erect rather stout herb : stem 

 branched above, reddish brown, pubescent with long spreading villous 

 hairs intermixed with stipitate glands : leaves bi-tripinnatisect, oblong to 

 oblong-ovate in general outline, 2 to 9 cm. long, 1 to 6 cm. broad, hir- 

 sute on both surfaces with a few glandular hairs intermixed ; segments 

 narrow, obtuse to acute : inflorescence consisting of villous-hirsute and 

 somewhat glandular scorpioid cymes subcorymbosely disposed ; pedicels 

 1 mm. or less in length : calyx deeply 5-parted ; divisions of the calyx 

 unequal, linear to linear-oblong or subspatulate, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, ob- 

 tusish, villous-pubescent intermixed with short-stipitate glandular hairs : 

 corolla narrowly campanulate, 4 to 5 mm. long, light blue to white, glab- 

 rous ; tube 2.5 to 3 mm. long, bearing within on either side of the fila- 

 ments a small thin reflexed valve ; lobes of the corolla subrotund, 2 mm. 

 broad, subentire or minutely denticulate : stamens exserted : ovary hir- 

 sute-pubescent above. 4-ovuled : style short-stipitate, glandular at the 

 base : capsule ovoid, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, pubescent above ; seeds 4, from 

 1.5 to 2 mm. long, somewhat scrobiculate or subfoveolate. P. glandulosa, 

 Hemsley, Biol. Cent. -Am. Bot. ii. 359 (1882), not Nutt., as to pi. 

 Coulter. — Mexico. State of Hidalgo : fields about Buena Vista Sta- 

 tion, altitude 2590 m., 4 August, 1904, C. G. Pringle, no. 8988 (hb. Gr.). 

 State of Vera Cruz : Real del Monte, Dr. Thus. Coulter, no. 921 

 (hb. Gr.). 



The latter specimen in the Gray Herbarium bears the following note 

 in the handwriting of Dr. Gray, " Between P. glandulosa & P. tanaceti- 

 folia = latter = tanacetifolia." Dr. Gray also placed a question mark 

 opposite the printed word Mexico on the Coulter label, evidently infer- 

 ring that the plant came from California instead of Mexico ; but as Mr. 

 Pringle's specimen above cited is identical in every regard with the 

 Coulter plant there can be no doubt, as Hemsley indicates, that Coulter's 

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