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as long as the obtuse keel, darker in color : stamens with small 

 cordate anthers and glabrous, filiform filaments ; abortive stamen 

 small, sessile, yellow : ovary conical, tapering to the style, which 

 is 4 mm. long : capsule slightly surpassing the calyx, globular, 

 acuminate at apex, minutely papillate : seeds 2, semi-obovate, almost 

 3 mm. long, completely filling the cavity, minutely papillate. 



Collected by the author at Summit, Placer County, California, 



June 8, 1898. It differs from C. parviflora Lindl., which grew in 



thesame locality, in leaves and inflorescence, and in color and shape 



of corolla ; and the gland-like, yoke-shaped protuberance at the 



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opening of the throat of C. parviflora is replaced by a wart-like 

 protuberance at the base of the lateral divisions. Collinsia incon- 

 spiata Congdon is also related, but is a much larger plant, having 

 the corolla of a different shape and color, the calyx-lobes longer 

 and the inflorescence different 



^ Chrysoma Merriami sp. nov. 



Low, spreading, suffrutescent, glandular-punctate : leaves 

 crowded, obovate, sessile, entire, 1.5 cm. long, i cm. wide, callous- 

 mucronate at apex, acuminate at base, rather thick, the midvein 

 only plainly evident : heads few, but closely clustered at the ends 

 of the branchlets on short, bracted pedicels, the entire cluster al- 

 most sessile \ bracts small and thick, orbicular to spatulate, less 

 than I mm, long : heads rayless, i mm. long; involucre turbinate, 

 the scales in several series, the outer successively shorter, merging 

 into the bracts, glandular, linear, acute, less than i mm. long; 

 inner 5 mm. long, keeled and tipped with brownish-green, mem- 

 braneously margined, the acute apex ciliate, somewhat recurved- 

 spreading in anthesis : corolla glabrous, tubular, gradually tapering 

 from a slender base, 5 mm. long, teeth acute with thickened mar- 

 gins that become striae on the tube : anthers exserted 2 mm,, the 

 tips sharply pointed : style-branches hairy, exserted : akenes slen- 

 der, 2,5 mm. long, clothed with upwardly-appressed silky white 

 hairs ; pappus about as long as the corolla, minutely barbellate. 



Collected by Dr. C. Hart Merriam at Caliente Creek, Kern 



County, California, October 12, 1902, and named in his honor. It 



is nearest to C. cuiieata Greene, differing chiefly in larger leaves and 



heads, and less densely hairy akenes. 



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Chrysoma fasciculata sp. nov. 



Suffrutescent, viscid throughout except on the older stems : 

 leaves fascicled, terete, mucronate, 1-1.5 cm. long: branchlets 



