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very short and the branches very long; calyx densely short- 
woolly within and without, lobes triangular-ovate and obtuse, a 
line long, equaling the tube; carpels two or rarely three, flat- 
tened, not greatly inflated, very acute, one-third inch long, tips 
widely divergent, dehiscent a little below the middle, appearing 
to be glutinous hairy but under the lens vitreous shining and 
very sparsely hairy with long hairs that are more or less stellate; 
seeds usually one in each carpel, from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 
scarcely. a line long and with or without a sharp inner edge, © 
nearly acute, smooth, shining and yellow. Other specimens 
from the satne locality have various intermediate leaves as to 
setration, lobation, and shape, all showing how futile is the 
attempt to make a character on the leaves. The venation of all 
the Neillice is really racemose in threes, and not digitate except 
by accident. On examining a large number of leaves we find 
that usually the three primary veins come out at the base of the 
‘ leaf within one-quarter to two lines of each other racemosely, 
and only rarely exactly opposite, except in VV. monogyna where 
it is more common, but this remark as to the racemoseness 
applies with equal force when there are five apparently digitate 
veins from the base; in this case the two lateral main veins are 
branched at base or within a line or two of it. Above the base 
of the leaf, about four lines, the central vein sends off a pair of 
secondary veins that are about one-fourth a line to a line apart, 
and so on. The twolateral main veins branch on the lower side 
into one or usually twosecondary ones, the first near the base, and 
after that they branch like the main central vein above. The 
large lateral veinlet is often so near the base of the leaf as to be 
as near it as the point of separation of the main ones and then is 
called the fifth vein, but though this can be found in single or a 
few leaves of a plant it is always less common than the regular 
form. I have found it on every recognized species of Neillia. 
my specimens from Bear Creek Cafion, near Colorado 
prings, the leaves are from rhomboid-ovate to lanceolate, but 
usually broadly ovate, one inch to three inches long and one- 
alf to two and one-half inches wide; calyx always short- 
woolly on both sides, cleft two-thirds the way to the base, two 
and one-half lines long; pedicels glabrous or stellate-woolly; 
