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■ ^" Dr>-nmria subsessilis N. Sp. Stems apparently annual, growing in 

 mud, very weak and filiform, a foot or two long and prostrate, with 



glabrous. Leaves when fully developed 

 wide, round-remiform and pointless, aJmc 



petioles. Flowers 2-5, rather cymose 



branching throughout and wholly 



cm . 



a * 



about 1 cm. long. Bracts about 1 mm. long, hyaline witii green center. 

 and acutish. Flcwers about 4 mm. long, open. Sepals narrowly elipticui, 

 almost nerveless, and pointless, and with hyaline and broad margins. 

 Petals about a half longer than the sepals, with divisions neaJy linuir. 

 Growing in rivulets at Ixtlan, Nayarit, Feb. 19, 1927. T^o. 22S4S. 

 Stipules hyaline and terminating in hair-like tips. WanLs occasional. y 

 rootini^ at the nodes. This species may be D. cordata Wiild. 



Drymaria Blasiana N. Sp. Annual, diffusely erect, intricatelv much- 

 branched with fiilifomi stems dichotomously branched at nearly every 

 node, and ending in loose and sub-racemose cymes of greenish Ho\ver.s 

 Whole plant** rather roughly glandular hairy with flat, very short, blun 

 and bent white scurf or hairs, particularly the Kpals. Int<modc>s aboiU 

 4 times as long as the leaves. Leaves H to 1 cm. long and about ,4 

 wider than long, rhomboidal to almost renifonn, thin, al^nip.ly cunato 

 below, very abruptly deltoid triangular at tip, on a petio.e abou 3 mm 

 long. Stipules capillary and about half as long as petioles. J^^-'L^ts o 

 the inflorescence like the sepals and H mm. long and acumina t. Lo^^.r 



long as tne nower, men a suoraceniuac »iu^"- o- fl^.v^r^ with 



or twin flowers with bracts, and a tenninal cluster of "^^^^^yj,^^^^^\^^n^^;; !,■ 

 short pedicels. Fully developed flowers 3-4 mrn^ long,, ^'^^'^^^I^i ;"'] ,^^^^^ 

 and aSte, ,opening but little in anthesis, w.ith ^^^^^^^'^^^^^P '^^^^j^ ^^*i, 

 with broad ' a^d sfarious -rps, ^the ty rather ^^^^^^^^ 



cusDidate with a hooked 



seiaceous-cuspmate wxm a nuu^cu ^.^ «..v..^- ^ .,. t f^ •? ni^pd nf-rve- 

 less. Back of sepals strongly keeled when ripe with ^^ ^^/'-^^^^j^";;;;; 

 Petals white, deeply notched and about half ^^^°"S as sepals, ^^d n^; « 

 San Bias. Sinaloa, January 20 1927, growing m op^lf^-J^^—^ -^ 

 Cleome Sinaloensis Brandegee. Zoe 5 98. 1 h ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ 



co^^oicuo'ifs 



L-ieome smaioensis i>rauucg.c^. — -^ _ - ,,„,,-„ r 

 about 2 feet hi-h. and erect, and openly branched as in C. 



tenninal inflorescence is short and few /^^'^f^'^^' ,?"t 'if^o triangular 

 leafy bracts clustered. The leaflets vary ^'■^"^.^^^^fjj ^^Jf^'ilcr Th. 

 .nominate, generally about an inch , -/ ^^J^.^tS^^^^^^^^ very 

 pods spread indifferently ^^-^J^^^^^^'X'^^^n! nearly straight, th. 



to^ado.se, empty and a^^^^^t^, 1,^°* 'f ^ip° rai^ly over 4 mm. long. 

 empty parts 3-4 mm. long, with ^i^ proper jtipe ^a ^ ^^^^. 



bc^y about 3 mm wide hnear^See^s toj^^ .^^^ .PX^^^ ^^ 



:']! over or sharply ndged. Ine wnoie u^^ Tv^„„„tlan - -' 



Epilobium paniculatum. My specimens got at Mazatlan 



her 20, 1926. 



Wislizenia. _ _□ 

 tbi^ genus in Lower California, 



•.•u nrnnf^ptree that there is but one species of 

 I agree with Brandegee tnai ^^^^ ^^^.^ 



beach. 



pecimens are shrubs 



,pecies 



