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margins, about equaling the oval-ovate capsule which is smooth 
and shining and very finely striate longitudinally with beaded 
lines and mostly 3-4-valved, and with about & large and circinate 
seeds with coat jow-tuberculate-striate longitudinally, This 
genus 1 would call Mollugophytnm and would refer to it D. 
crassifolia Bth. as M. crassifolium, D. holcsteoides Bth. as 
M. holosteoides, and i. polycarpoides Gray as M. polyear 
poides and D. sperguloides Gray as M. sperguloides. A con- 
speetus of the proposed genus is given below. 
Leaves broad. 
Marifime Perennials. Flowers umbellate. 
1 crassifolium 
Annna'!s, 
Petals abortive or very small. Leaves con- 
spieuously petioled. 2 M. holosteoides 
Peta's conspicuous Flowers cymulose, 
eaves very shortly petioled 
3 M. polycarpoides 
Leaves linear. Flowers eymuloze, with slend:r 
pedicels and equally as lung eommon pedunele, 
M: sperguloides. 
ematis Barranex n. sp. Guadalajara, Mex, Nov. 25 
1930. Flowers perfect. Leaves bi pinnate, the pinns ternate, 
final segments below inclined to’be seallop- lobed below aud rather 
deltoid-ovate and acutish and cordate, 2 inches long. Fruit ashy, 
with short and stiff hairs, the tails much elongated aud thinly pin- 
mo:e. A smooth and high-climber. Lexflets 9-12, rather leathery 
Thalictrum peninsulare (Drandg.) Rose replaces T, Fendleri 
high, growing singly, and is diwcious. The panicles of flowers 
are rather small and with capillary rays ending in very small 
heads of fruit consisting of 1-3 seeds on subulate stipes tas long 
as the seeds which are about 4 mm. long and 2-3 mm. wide. The 
seeds are really half-oblately oval with one face nearly straight 
or a little bowed in the middle and with the other face greatly 
arched. The surface of the seeds is very coarsely corrugated in 
deltoid-acnte at tip. It is common along watercourses in the 
shade. Lower Temperate life zone. 
LYROCARPA. 
Watson, in the Flora of California Vol. 2 p. 44 says of this 
genus “ pubescentannuals‘. From his description of L. Palmeri 
we would infer similarity to the type species. ‘Watson often blun. 
dered, as we all de, on species, but this time it is.on the genus. 
