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BoEnnAAViA bracteosa. Near B. splcata: annual, glandular- 

 pubescent and viscid, two feet high, leafy below : leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late to lanceolate, undulate, acute or acutish, subcordate at base, 1 to l.V 

 inches long besides the petiole : flowers spicate on the slender branches 

 of the panicle ; bracts conspicuous, pink, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1| lines long, persisting as long as the fruit or longer: perianth small 

 (a line long) : stamens 3 : fruit oblong-obovate, obtuse, rather acutely 

 4— 5-costate, the intervals somewhat pitted, a line long. — In the Great 

 Canon of the Rio Grande, Western Texas, by Dr. V. Ilavard, Septem- 

 ber, 1883. Distinguished from B. splcata by its more viscid f)ubes- 

 cence, longer and more persistent colored bracts, and the broader fruit 

 more acutely costate. 



Atriplex julacea. Perennial, the slender woody stems procum- 

 bent, and the numerous short slender branchlets ament-like from the 

 crowding of the close leafy undeveloped buds, scurfy-pubescent: leaves 

 small, ovate-triangular, sagittate and clasping, thick, the larger cauline 

 2 lines long, those u[)on the branchlets scarcely a half-line long and 

 sulcate from the folding back of the margins : fruit mostly solitary in 

 the axils, 2 or 2.1- lines Ion":, the ovate marginless ri<jid bracts united 

 to above the middle, and densely covered with irregular corky appen- 

 dages. — Collected by C. R. Orcutt at Todos Santos Bay, Lower 

 California, September, 1884. Related to A. polycarpa. 



Eriogonu.m (Eueriogonum) suffruticosum. Perennial, very 

 much branched and woody, low (4 to 6 inches high), canescent : lea%'es 

 finely silky-tomentose both sides, fascicled and more or less revolute, 

 oblanceolate, acute, attenuate to a short petiole, 2 to 4 lines long: 

 peduncles simple or sparingly dichotomous, an inch long or less, brac- 

 teate, the bracts small and foliaceous, linear; involucres iierbaceou;*, 

 solitary, turbinate-campanulate, 6-cleft to below tlic middle, the lobes 

 erect: flowers few, small (a line long), glabrous, pinkish, the outer 

 segments of the perianth round-reniform, at length reflexed, the inner 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, erect. — On the foothills of the Bofecillos Moun- 

 tains, Western Texas; collected by Dr. V. Ilavard, September, 188o. 

 A peculiar species, most nearly allied to some species of the UmbelUita 

 group, as E. thijmoides and E. sphcErocephalum. 



Eriogonum vagans. {Oxyihcca inermis, Watson, Proc, Amer. 

 Acad. 12. 273.) Very near E. Jiirtijlorum, Gray, but less diffusely 

 and finely branched, the branches more decumbent, and the flowers 

 and akenes two or three times larger (half a line long). Both have 

 similar ciliate leaves, unilateral foliaceous bracts, glamlular pubescence, 

 villous flowers, and obtusely triangular akenes. — In the San Ber- 



