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tending each flower. Not obviously of near relationship to any other 

 known genus; but clearly of the tribe Iimloidece by the style and 

 anthers, although it does not fall well into any of the characterized 

 subtribes. Yet it is most like the Angianthece. 



Astragalus Nevixii. A. Drummondii et A. racemoso ut videtur 

 parum afRnis, pube brevi adpressa canescens ; foliolis plurimis oblongis 

 retusis ; pedunculo subcapitato-plurifloro ; calycis nigricantis dentibus 

 tubo campanulato paullo brevioribus ; corolla (vix evoluta) alba ; 

 legumiuibus patentibus glabris tenuiter transversira reticulatis oblongis 

 arcuatis utrinque subacutis dorso late sulcato iutrusis bilocellatis ventre 

 acutatis (seetione transversa latissime Y-formi) in stipitem calyce bis 

 superantem repente contractis. — Island of San Clemente, off Southern 

 California, Messrs. Nevin and Lyon, April, 1885. Apparently a low 

 species, with stems only a foot high. 



SoLiDAGO erecta, Pursh. The proper reference of this obscure 

 species was inadvertently omitted from the Synoptical Flora, even 

 from the recent Supplement. So it may here be recorded that no 

 specimen bearing this name can be found in the Bauksian herbarium. 

 But there is a " S. stricta /3, Mss." which answers the conditions. 

 This appears to be the S. bi'color, var. concolor, of the Flora ; and so 

 S. erecta may be the proper name for this ambiguous Golden-i'od, if (as 

 is probable) it comes to be recognized as a species. S. erecta of Elliott 

 may be the smoother form of it. 



SoLiDAGO ELATA, Pursh, also should have been more definitely 

 referred to in the Syn. Flora. The three sheets of it in the Banksiau 

 herbarium seem to belong to as many species. The first, a specimen 

 from a cultivated plant, seemed to me to be >S'. sempervirens, var. 

 viminea. The second, from " New Jersey, Bartram," has the panicle 

 abnormally branched through an early injury to the summit of the 

 stem. I took it probably to be the S. bicolor, var. concolor. The 

 third, " S. elata, Mss. & herb. Miller," apparently from a cultivated 

 plant, seemed to be a form of the European S. Virgaurea. 



Lessingia Lemmoni. L. Germanonim sat similis, magis robusta ; 

 indumento tenuiore ; capitulis paullo raajoribus ; corollis luteis, ex- 

 terioribus limbo ampliato ; styli ramis in cuspidem subulatam longe 

 productis ; acheniis turbinatis albo-villosissimis ; pappo multisetoso 

 subeequali. — At Ash Fork, in northern part of Arizona, Lemmon. — 

 This species requires a modification of the character of the first section 

 of the genus in the Syn. Fl. i.- 162, as to the style-appendages, which 

 are like those of the white- and purple-flowered section. And the 

 species is more eastern than any other. 



