z een Essai 1. pr pe sy monte 
i rf athe types was; collected in, somewhat saline edie 
meria Grayi aM 
_E. canescens Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 42; not Ra canescens 
Willd. ex Schult. Mant. 3: 303, which properly ietones 
_ to a Peruvian species. 
Excellent specimens of this species were secured at Moapa, 
Lincoln county, Nevada, by P. B. Kennedy, May 12, ia No. 
1095. 
Emplectocladus Andersonii (Gray) 1. comb. 
Prunus Andersonii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 337. 1868. 
Amygdalus Andersonii Greene, FI. F ran. 49. 1891. 
In Pl. Frem. 10. p/. 5, Torrey established the genus and 
species Emplectocladus fasciculatus. ‘This species was later re- 
ferred to other genera, but why so strongly marked a genus 
should have been relegated to synonymy is not clear. Attention 
is therefore called to it again, and the above species transferred 
to it. | 
Boisduvalia sparsifolia n. sp. 
Plant 3 to 6dm. high, erect, simple or with ascending 
‘branches above: stems slender, yellowish below, gray-green 
above: stems and leaves covered with soft villous hairs: leaves 
few, about 2.5 to 3cm. long and 2 to 4mm. wide, linear-lanceo- 
late, acute, margins undulate, entire or very sparingly dentate; 
the leaves subtending the flowers broadly ovate, apex abruptly 
acuminate, entire: spike elongated: flowers pink, purple when 
dry, 5mm. long: corolla exceeding the 3mm. long calyx lobes 
about half, its lobes about 3 mm. long, bifid about one-half their 
