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paiillo longiori, limbo parvo ; capsula demum deflexa ovali-oblonga 

 torosa ; semiuibus (liu. | longis) ovalibus, testa tenui Itcvi parum 

 uiidulata. — Southeastern borders of California, in the Mohave desert, 

 near Fort Mohave, Mr. and 3Irs. Lemmon, May, 1884. Leaves half- 

 inch to an inch long, 2 lines wide. The place of this and the fol- 

 lowing species in the Synoptical Flora is between N. Coulteri and 

 N. dichotomum. 



Nama pusillum, Lemmon m herb. Annunm, exiguum, a basi ra- 

 mosum, depressum, molliter pubescens ; foliis obovato-spathulatis sen 

 ovatis in petiolum marginatum subito angustatis ; floribus in dichoto- 

 niiis subsessilibns ; corolla angusta (sescpiiliueam longa) roseo tincta 

 extus hirsutula sepalis demum spathulatis pauUo longiore, limbo 

 parvo ; capsula erecta ovali ; seminibns subglobosis, obsolete rugulosis, 

 testa diaphana lasvissima. — Same locality and collectors as the pre- 

 ceding. Plants only an inch or so in height ; the leaves half-inch or 

 less in length, including the petiole. 



Convolvulacece. 



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Convolvulus pentapetaloides, L. A synonym of this South 

 Eurojaean species, which has found its way to California, probably 

 with grain, is Breweria minima, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 228, 

 ■which came from Lower California, where the advent of this plant was 

 unsuspected. 



SolanacecB. 



Lyciuji exsertum. L. gracilipedi inter Longifora proximum, 

 puberulum, subspinosum ; foliis spathulatis (majoribns semipollicari- 

 bus); pedicellibus gracilibus (lin. 4 longis); calyce angusto-campanulato 

 (lin. 2-3 longo) lobis acutis tubo paullo brevioribus ; corolla infundi- 

 buliformi semipollicari, tubo proprio calyci requilongo, fauce elongato, 

 lobis 5 ovato-triangularibus per anthesin reflexis ; filamentis insigniter 

 exsertis inferne villoso-tomentosis. — N. W. Sonora, near Altar, March, 

 1884, Pringle. 



Lycium Parishii. Inter L.jiuberidnm et L. Cooperi coWocundum, 

 pube foliisque fere prioris ; pedicellis gracilibus flore paullo brevioribus 

 (lin. 3 longis) ; calycis lobis tubo fere aquilongis ; staminibus e fauce 

 corollse exsertis lobis obtusissimis adicquantibus ; autheris ovalibus. — 

 Mesas in San Bernardino Valley, S. California, Parish Brothers. 



Lycium Pringlei. PriTcedenti affine, magis glanduloso-pubens ; 

 ramis gracilioribus ; pedicellis (lin. 2 longis) calyce subnequilongis ; 

 calycis lobis oblongis foliaceis tubo suo longioribus corolla violacea 



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