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sis), but distinguished by its closer cinereous puberuleiice, longer crenate 

 (instead of sharply serrate) shorter-petioled leaves, and deeper-colored 

 flowers. 



Acnistus Pringlei. Branches stout, covered with a soft almost 

 corky ashy brown bark : leaves elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 

 the principal ones 4 to 7.5 cm. long, slightly puberulent above, tomentu- 

 lose and becoming glabrate beneath, on slender petioles 0.7 to 1.5 cm. 

 long: flowers in crowded fascicles: pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm. long, slightly 

 thickened above : calyx glabrous, at first campanulate, 2 or 3 mm. high, 

 with ascending blunt lobes, later rotate and larger : corolla tubular- 

 funnelform, straw-colored, 8 mm. long, with spreading or finally re- 

 curved bluutish lobes : stamens and style much exserted : fruit pulpy, 

 subglobose, pale, about 7 mm. in diameter. — Mexico, wet meadows, 

 Valley of Zamora, alt. 1540 m., May 25, 1901, and July 25, 1902 

 (C. G. Pringle, nos. 8509, 11,049). Near A. Benthami, Miers, but 

 clearly differing in its much smaller flowers and shorter pedicels. 



Castilleja patriotica. Simple or branched at base, 3 to 5.5 dm. 

 high ; stems pilose-hirsute throughout or glabrate : leaves scabrous but 

 thin, hispidulous, 3 to 5 cm. long, linear-lanceolate, dilated below the 

 2 to 6 strongly divergent linear lobes : bracts similar but less cleft, 

 sometimes entire : flowers loosely racemose ; pedicels 1 cm. or less 

 long : calyx tubular, 3 to 4 cm. long, pilose-puberulent, red, green, and 

 whitish ; corolla 4.5 to 5.25 cm. long, green and whitish, the back 

 softly pubescent; the loug-exserted galea 2.75 to 3 cm. long; lower 

 lip green, about 3 mm. long, with lanceolate lobes : fruiting calyx some- 

 what enlarged: capsule oblong, acuminate, 1.5 cm. long. — Chihuahua, 

 Sierra Madre near Colonia Garcia, alt. 2310 m., July 20, 1899 (C. H. T. 

 Toumsend Sf 0. M. Barber, no. 156); Cumbre, Aug. -Nov., 1885 

 {Edw. Palmer, no. 363); Mapula Mts., alt. 2200 m., Oct. 30, 1886, 

 and cool slopes of the Sierra Madre, Sept. 10, 1887 {C. G. Prim/le, 

 nos. 1154, 1350). Related to C. tenuijiora, Benth., and C. affinis. 

 Hook. & Arn. Differing from both in its much longer galea (distinctly 

 exceeding the tube) and in its thinner divaricately cleft leaves. 



Castilleja Pringlei. Dwarf rather tufted perennial, with many 

 slender decumbent pilose stems 3 to 6 cm. high : lowest leaves crowded 

 and bract-like, ovate, 3 to 4 mm. long; the upper 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, pilose, simple or with deeply 3-lobed 

 tips : bracts similar, the narrow lobes usually red-tinged : calyx tubular, 

 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, straw-colored below, deep red above, densely pilose 

 except at the puberulent tips, s])lit e(|ually before and behind one fourth 



