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its four nearly equal lobes minutely ciliate, leaves cinereous, 
clavate-linear, thick, obtuse, quite entire, about three-quarters 
of an inch long. Related to A. capitata. Fort Verde (246). 
A curious feature of the species is the prolification of the 
floral axis in all the specimens examined. 
Brunella vulgaris, L. Baker’s Butte (105). 
PLANTAGINE®. 
‘Pluntago Patagonica, Jacq. A form. Fort Verde (199). 
NYCTAGINEX. 
Mirabilis multifiora (Torr.), Gray. Fort Verde (176). 
Allionia incarnata, L. Fort Verde (216). 
Berhaavia spicata, Choisy. A variety. Fort Verde (218). 
Berhaavia lasiolena, Torr. Fort Verde (198). 
Ozybaphus angustifolius, Sweet. LDaker’s Butte (253). 
AMARANTACEA. 
Amarantus Wrightii, Wats. Fort Verde (277). 
CHENOPODIACEA. 
Hurotia lanata (Pursh), Moq. Fort Verde (188). 
POLYGONACES. 
Hriogonum Abertianum, Torr. Fort Verde (224). Named by 
Dr. Parry. 
EHriogonum microthecum, Nutt. Fort Verde (219). 
Erioconum MEARNSII, Parry, 2. sp. Fruticose, with loose, 
shreddy bark on the older stems, lanose on the growing shoots; 
leaves crowded, fasciculate in the axils, usually developing 
short leafy branches, linear, cuspidate, 5-7 mm. long, 
revolute to a close cylinder, the smooth upper surface con- 
cealing the tomentose under, the base terminating in a short 
membranous expansion, remaining as a scale after the fall of 
the leaf; inflorescence terminating the upper branches, sparsely 
corymbose by simple dichotomous extension; involucre pedun- 
culate, 3 mm. high, segments 5, short, connected by a mem- 
branous expansion; perianth conspicuous, bright pink or 
whitish, with prominent midnerves, tube short, segments 
broadly spatulate, unguiculate, outer broader and spreading, 
overlapping the inner; stamens shorter than the perianth 
lobes, filaments hairy, ciliate; bracteoles plumose, longer than 
the pedicels; akenes narrowly winged, with long projecting 
