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united below the middle, somewhat imbricate, equaling or at 
first surpassing the corolla: corolla less than 2™™" long; its lobes 
ovate, acute, equaling or longer than the broadly campanulate 
tube: scales oval, fringed around the summit with short proc- 
esses: filaments about as long as the anthers: capsule globose, 
about 1™" in diameter: stigmas linear, purple, as long as the dis- 
tinct equal styles; stigma and style together 1™™ long: ovules 4, 
usually but 1 maturing.—On Artemisia gnaphalodes. Wyoming. 
When Dr. Rydberg published his Cuscuta gracilis (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 
28: 501), founding it in part upon material that had passed for C. epilinum, 
I was at first inclined to doubt the presence of indigenous species in this 
country possessing the characters that Gray and Engelmann had considered 
as possessed only by old world species. I am satisfied now, however, that 
both types occur here, Species undoubtedly indigenous and having char- 
acters clearly separating them from the European forms, with which we have 
been wont to ally them, leave no room for doubt 
The species now proposed was collected in the Seminole Mountains, 
y Mr. Elias Nelson in 1898, no. 4936. It was found on Artemisia 
gnaphalodes, but I have no doubt it will be secured on other species of the 
Anthemideae. 
. Pectocarya miser, n.sp.—Minutely appressed-strigose, branched 
from the base, the several stems filiform, spreading, 5-20 long: 
leaves linear, imperfectly opposite, mostly less than 1™ long, the 
floral one of the pair reduced or wanting: flowers singly at the 
nodes: nutlets geminate, very flat, irregularly and narrowly winged 
on the sides, sides and apex bordered with hooked bristles, the 
dorsal disk slightly keeled and glandular-hairy. 
Known only from the type locality, Point of Rocks, Wyo., where it was 
collected by the writer, June 15, 1898, and distributed under no. 4741 as P. 
penicillata H. & A. 
“ Orobanche xanthochroa Nels. & Ckll.,’ n.sp.—Glabrous, 20-25™ 
high: stem bracteate: the bracts large (20™™ long and yer 
broad at the base), the upper of these covering rudimentary 
flowers: spike 10-12™ long, about 38™™ broad, densely flowered: 
floral bracts single, acuminate-lanceolate, 17™™ long: flowers 
entirely pale yellow: upper lip large (g™™ broad, surpassing the 
calyx by 7™™), rounded, entire or with two slight notches: 
*The characters of this plant were worked out by Professor Cockerell from the 
living plant. It has had further study in the herbarium.— A. 
