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attenuate at each end and short-stipitate, 5-9-ovuled, 9 to 16 lines 

 long. — On open grassy hills about Los Angeles, California, growing 

 with V. exigua ; Dr. H. E. liasse. Also collected at Santa Cruz by 

 Dr. C. L. Anderson, at Benicia by Dr. Bigelow ( V. exigua, var. (?) 

 Cah'fornica, Torr. in Pac. Railroad Rep. 4. 76), and on Guadelupe 

 Island by Dr. Palmer. 



Strophosttles angulosa, etc., Ell. The characters which dis- 

 tinguish those species of Phaseolus that were separated by Elliott 

 under the name of Slrophostyles are so marked that the restoration of 

 the genus has long seemed to me desirable, for wliich the revision of 

 the Manual has given an opportunity. These peculiarities are the 

 sessile or very nearly sessile capitately clustered flowers, never race- 

 mose, the less curved and never spirally coiled keel and style, and 

 the more or less mealy-pubescent quadrangular or subcylindric seed, 

 subtruncate at the ends and with a narrow hilum half its length or 

 more. Bentham's section Strophostyles is based mainly ujwn the 

 production of the stipules below the insertion, which is not the case 

 in our species. Elliott's specific names are to be retained for his 

 species, and to these is to be added Phaseolus paucijlorus, Benth. 

 The P. paucijlorus, Dalz., of the Indian flora, can therefore stand. 



Eriogynia (Kelseya) uniflora. Very densely cespitose (2 

 or 3 inches high), with numerous slender branching stems densely 

 covered with persistent imbricated leaves, which are light green 

 becoming brownish, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 1 to H lines long, 

 nerveless, acute, entire, silky-villous : flowers solitary, terminal (often 

 apparently lateral from the prolongation of a branch), equalling the 

 leaves, very shortly pedicellate: calyx-lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, 

 villous ; petals a half longer, linear-spatulate, obtuse or emarginate : 

 stamens 10, distinct, long-ex serted, inserted outside of the thickened 

 margin of the disk : carpels usually 4 (or 5, alternate with the sepals), 

 distinct, oblong, somewhat hairy on the ventral edge, coriaceous in 

 fruit and more or less dehiscent by both sutures; styles elongated, 

 stigmatic at the narrow apex : seeds 3 or 4, linear-oblong, with a thin 

 close testa. — Discovered at the " Gate of the Mountains," near 

 Townsend, Montana, on precipitous clifi's bordering the Missouri 

 River, by Rev. F. D. Kelsey, on 4th July, 1888. 



The habit and inflorescence of this plant are remarkable among 

 the Spirceece. With the exception, however, of its solitary flowers it 

 closely resembles Spircea ccEspitosa, which has been hitherto retained 

 in Spircea as a section Pctrophylum, as proposed by Nuttall, distin- 

 guished from the typical species by its racemose inflorescence and low 



