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lanceolate to ovatc-Ianceolate, acute, cuneate at base, 2 to 5 lines 

 long ; stipules setaceous : peduncles terminal, capillary, 1-3-flovvered : 

 sepals very thin, lanceolate, acuminate, a line long ; petals much 

 shorter, bifitl : capsule globose, sessile. — With the last (n. 2120). 



DuYMAitiA ANOMALA. Annual, glabrous or subpuberulent, the 

 slender stems diffusely much branched, a foot high : leaves thickish, 

 nearly sessile, ovate to lanceolate, acute, cuneate at base, 2 or 3 lines 

 long; stipules setaceous: flowers in broad diffuse cymes, sessile at 

 the nodes : sepals herbaceous and somewhat rigid, a line long, the 

 two outer larger and ovate, the inner lanceolate ; petals small, bifid : 

 stamens 3 : capsule globose. — Carneros Pass, Coahuila ; September, 

 1889 (n. 2847). 



Hypericum paucifolium. Annual, glabrous, sparingly branched, 

 a foot high or more, with a few distant pairs of narrowly linear leaves 

 3 to 9 lines long : flowers racemose along the branches and solitary 

 in the forks, on short pedicels: sepals narrowly lanceolate, the orange 

 petals twice longer : stamens about 40 • capsule 1 -celled, equalling 

 the sepals (li to 2 lines long); styles elongated, distinct. — In the 

 Sierra Madre near Monterey; June, 1888 (n. 2266). Related to 

 H. fastigiatum. 



Hypericum Pringlei. Perennial, erect, glabrous and glaucous, 

 nearly 2 feet high, with numerous short slender lateral branches : 

 leaves spreading, narrowly oblong to oblong-spatulate or oblanceolate, 

 obtuse, lighter beneath, ^ to 1-^- inches long: flowers in mostly small 

 and close terminal cymes : sepals narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 

 2 lines long ; petals twice as long, remaining twisted over the capsule : 

 stamens numerous : styles 3, distinct ; capsule 3-celled, ovate, equal- 

 ling the sepals. — In the Sierra Madre near Monterey ; June, 1889 

 (n. 3012). 



Malvastrum Schaffneri. a stout erect simple or somewhat 

 branching perennial, 2 or 3 feet high or more, more or less densely 

 stellate-pubescent throughout : leaves broadly ovate to ovate-lanceo- 

 late, subcordate at base, acute or acuminate, unequally serrate, 3 

 inches long or less, mostly hastately lobed, the short broad lobes 

 rounded or acutish : flowers densely clustered in more or less com- 

 pound axillary and terminal pubescent panicles, small : calyx 2 lines 

 long or less, the acute deltoid lobes about equalling the white or 

 whitish petals : carpels (10) small, nearly circular, smooth. — In the 

 San ^Miguelito INIountains, near San Luis Potosi (n. 160 SchaflTner, 

 1876); between San Luis Potosi and Tampico (n. 1036 Palmer, 

 1879, distributed as M. vitifoliurn) ; and at Carneros Pass, Coahuila 



