some Borraginaceous genera rest. 



Sonnea Greene. There is no occasion whatever for the 

 erection of this genus. Greene takes the two most divergent 

 groups of Krynitzkia, namely, the Ambigui and Hypsoula, and 

 unites them into this genus and leaves the intermediate spe- 

 cies to form Plagiobolhyrs, apparently basing his genus on 

 habit, but strangely omitting to include P. canescens with 

 similar habit and Allocarya moUis which also has a similar 

 habit. 



Sonnea Cusickii Greene well illustrates the absurdity of 

 Greene's distinctions. The No. 1661 ot Cusick distributed by 

 him contains not only Greene's type but also Allocarya Nef- 

 sonii, which is known by the setose-tipped transverse rugae, 

 and the rest are Allocarya hispidula, showing that all these 

 so-called species grew together. 



Amsinckia tesscllata var. macrosepala, n. var. 



Corymbosely branched from the base; leaves very large 

 and broad, ovate to oblong-ovate on the stem; spikes 4-8 

 mches long, strict, about 1 inch wide; fruiting calyx 6-8 lines 

 long, with loose triangular and ovate lobes 2 lines wide at 

 base; whole plant sparsely setose and leaves covered with 

 white pustules: nutlets with few corrugations but compactly 

 set. with pavement-like surface. Reno, Nevada, June 10. 

 1897: Dutch Mountain, Utah. June 8, 1890; Mojave, Califor- 

 nia. May 20. 190.V Very common from Reno, Nevada, to Con- 

 gress Junction. Arizona. 



miiaiu«.Kia laanocnsis n. sp. 



This is closely related to Plagiobothrvs Tonesli apparent- 

 Robust, paniculately branched annual. 2 feet high, most 

 the ax.ls either with single flowers or with short peduncled 

 ids of flowers which in fruit are about an inch across and 

 h about a half dozen flowers with leafy bracts as long as 

 nntrre calyx lobes; whole plant sparselv setose with 

 .te hairs standing oiit at right angles; calvx shagg)^: 

 ves ovatc-oblong, Ij^-Z inches long, sessile, flecked with 

 jte pustulate spots whose covering is beautifully and radi- 



lobes; nutlets oblique! v ovate Vi 

 compactly and ^sharply tubercled. 



long with linear and loose 

 lines long and 1 line wide 

 but not pavement-like, s 



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;-^rp tip, distinctly keeled on 

 onvex and longitudinalh 

 > face slighth- concave bott 



