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Brunella VULGARIS, Linn. — Cumbre (327). 

 Plantago hirtella, HBK. — Yerba Buena (311). P. Pata- 

 GONiCA, Jacq. — Same locality (312). 



OxTBAPHDS Cervantesii, Sweet ; the more viscid-pubescent form. 

 — Hacienda San Miguel (233). 



BoERHAAviA PANicuLATA, Rich. Flowcrs dark red. — Same 

 locality (202). 



BoERHAAViA SPiCATA, Choisy, var. With flowering racemes very 

 short (2 or 3 lines) and dense (about 25-flowered), the pinkish flowers 

 a line long ; fruiting racemes also shorter and more crowded, the fruit 

 only a line long. — Same locality (209). 



BoERHAAViA viscosA, Lag. & Rodr. Flowers dark red. — Same 

 locality (212). 



BOERHAAVIA ERECTA, Linn. — Same locality (225). 



Amaranths Palmeri, Watson. Staminate ; often 8 feet high. — 

 Hacienda San Miguel (V) . Young stems and leaves eaten for greens. 



Amarantus (Amblogyne) Chihuahuensis. Monoecious; erect, 

 sparingly pubescent, 1 or 2 feet high : leaves ovate-lanceolate to ob- 

 long, obtusish, narrowed at base, an inch or two long including the 

 slender petiole, the floral much reduced : flowers clustered in all the 

 axils and in long slender terminal more or less naked spikes ; bracts 

 solitary, small and narrow : staminate flowers mingled with the pis- 

 tillate ; sepals scarious, oblong, acute, those of the urceolate fertile 

 flowers broadly spatulate, entire, setose-apiculate, the green midvein 

 somewhat branched, becoming much thickened at base, less than a 

 line long : utricle smooth : seed brown, shining. — With unusually 

 small flowers for the section, and rather peculiar in habit. Hacienda 

 San Miguel (197). 



GuiLLEMiNEA iLLECEBROiDES, HBK. — Norogachi (382). 



Telanthera (Bucholtzia) stellata. Annual, ascending, loosely 

 branched, 2 feet high, roughish throughout with short stellate pubes- 

 cence : leaves ovate to lanceolate, acute, narrowed to a short petiole, 

 less pubescent above, 1 to 1|^ inches long: heads small, solitary or 

 few in the axils ; bracts lanceolate, glabrous, shorter than the dorsally 

 compressed perianth : outer perianth-segments 3-nerved, rigid, pubes- 

 cent with simple hairs, acuminate, 2 lines long : staminodia narrow, 

 lanceolate, exceeding the stamens. — Hacienda San Miguel (4), among 

 underbrush. 



Alternanthera Achyrantha, R. Br. — Norogachi (405). 



