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This belongs to the same group as A, canescens Eastwood. 

 The rosy flowers, the glaucous foliage, and the branching roots 

 are features in which the species are ahke, but A. aiiricidata has 

 leaves of a very different shape, branches more erect, and an ap- 

 pearance so different that they could never be confused by even 

 the most superficial observer. In the shape and arrangement of 

 the leaves and hairiness of stem the species resembles A. Ander- 

 soni Gray. 



^Cynoglossum Austinae sp. nov. 



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Stems about 5 dm. high, glabrous throughout, scaly at base : 

 lower leaves suborbicular, 8 cm. in diameter; the other leaves ob- 

 long, acuminate, 8-12 cm. long, 4.5 cm. wide, undulate, decurrent 

 on the broad petiole which varies in length from 13 cm. on the 

 lowest leaves to 5 mm. on the topmost ; upper leaves much smaller, 

 ovate, upper surface glaucous, lower canescent with irregularly 

 appressed pubescence : panicle somewhat contracted in flower, 

 widely expanding in fruit; peduncles and pedicels glabrous, the 

 latter filiform, lengthening in fruit : calyx deeply divided, the divi- 

 sions linear-oblong, unequal, about 7 mm. long, 2 mm, wide, obtuse 

 or acute, canescent : corolla purplish, the tube generally longer than 

 the calyx, 7 mm., divisions oblong-orbicular, 4 mm. wide, slightly 

 undulate ; crests short, ligulate, conspicuous, truncate, 2 mm. broad 

 and long : anthers almost sessile, nearly 2 mm. long, the tips ex- 

 serted : only one or two nutlets maturing, these obovate or ob- 

 long, I cm. long, the lower part smooth or slightly wrinkled, the 

 upper muricate with spines confluent, subulate, a few only tipped 

 with stellate hooks. 



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Austin, in whose honor it is named, at Butte Creek, Calfornia, 

 March and June, 1897, being 2og2 of her collection. 



It differs from the other California species in the peculiar nut- 

 lets. These are not at all flattened or depressed. The crests in 

 the throat, too, are more conspicuous. 



■^ Cryptanthe trifurca sp. nov. 



Stems diffusely branched from the base and above (occasionally 

 simple in depauperate specimens), 1-1.5 dm. high, cinereous with 

 stiff, white, horizontally spreading hairs 2 mm. long, also with 

 appressed pubescence beneath : leaves linear, callous-tipped, 

 strongly ribbed, becoming keeled, with thickened margins, 1-3 

 cm. long, T-3 mm. wide, the pubescence hke that of the stems 



