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EuiTRiCHiuM MiCROMERES. KrynitzJcia, erectum, subpcdale e 

 radioe ut videtur annua, pilis patentibus brevibus hirsutum vcl his- 

 piduin ; caule gruLili lainosissirno ; foliis parvis (lin. 3-6 longis) 

 linearibus integerrimis ; spicis filiformibus peduuculatis demum sparsi- 

 floris ; floribus minimis ; corolla incoiispicua ; calyce ctiam fructifero 

 vix ulti'a semilineam longo setis uncinalis liispidi.^simo, lobis lanceo- 

 latis obtusiubculis iructum parum superantibus ; nucuiis ovato-trigonis 

 acutancfulis dorso demum muriculato-scabris, sulco ventrali latiusculo 

 basi subito dilatato. — Near Santa Cruz, California, 1881, Marcus E. 

 Jones. 



EciiiDiocARYA URSiNA. Dcprcssa, ramosissima, liispida ; floribus 

 fere omnibus folioso-bracteatis ; corollis minimis ; nucuiis breviter 

 stipitatis distinctis lajvibus (hand muriculalis) lint-is leviter prominulis 

 reticulatis. — Common on dry slopes of Bear Valley in the San Ber- 

 nardino Mountains, S. E. California, S. B. «& W. F. Parish, 1879 and 

 1882. This and the nearly related E. Californica effect nearly a 

 transition to the Plagiohothrys section of JEritrichium. 



Convolvulacece. 



Ipomcea TnURBKRi, Gray. Pharhltis, prccter folia quandoque 

 utrinque hispidulo-pubescentia glaberrima ; radicc perenni tuberosa; 

 caulibus gracilibus procumbentibus ; foliis cordato-hastatis aruminatis 

 (lobis sicpius bifidis) vel superioribus 5-7-fidis lobis triangulari-lanceo- 

 latis divergentibus ; peduuculis unifloris petiolo brevioribus supra brac- 

 teolas clavato-incrassatis ; sepalis (polliearibus) elongato-lanceolatis 

 sensira acumiuatis a^qualibus gluberrimis ; corolla ultra -bipollicari pur- 

 purea e tubo gracili superne infundibuliformi ; stigmate trilobo ; ovario 

 triloculari (imnc 4-loculari ?) ; semiiiibus furfuraceo-puberulis. — Syn. 

 Fl. ii. 212, — Southern Arizona, now collected in flower, on lime- 

 stone rocks, by /. G. Leinmon. And the species proves to be of the 

 Pharhltis group. 



IrOAicEA cuxEiFOLiA. Exigua, glabra ; caule gracili e cormo glo- 

 boso enato decumbente ; foliis cuneatis brevi-peiiolatis c basi 5-9- 

 nervatis apice inciso-dentatis, dentibus 3-7 lanceolatis ; pedunculis 

 filiformibus unifloris folium sub:T5(iuantibus ; sepalis (lin. 3-4 longis) 

 oblongis obtusis, omnibus vel exterioribus secus costam processibiis 

 moliibus insigniter nuii-icatis; corolla purpurea vix poUicari infundi- 

 buliformi ; capsula parva 4-vaIvi disperma, seminibus tantum puberulis. 

 — S. Arizona, iu Tanner's Canon, near Fort IIuMclnica, Lpinmon. — 

 The larger leaves of this remarkable species are haidly an iiicli long. 

 The calyx resembles that of /. capillacea, Don (/. muricata, Cav.), 



