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broad, turgid-ovate, apiculate, with four strongly carinatc or almost winged angles, the 

 intermediate ribs scarcely prominent. Seeds numerous in each cell, obovate, with a 

 smooth and thin testa. — This plant accords with the description of CE. guttulata, Geyer, 

 except that the petals are not obcordate. It agrees with the original specimen of the 

 earlier published CE. canescens ; the capsules of which were by an oversight described as 

 obovate instead of ovate. 



228. CE. (Pachylophis) eximia (sp. nov.) : subcaulescens ; foliis elongato-lanceola- 

 tis maximis sinuato-pinnatifidis in petiolum attenuatis ad margines costamque dense villo- 

 sis flores superantibus ; ovario sessili fusiformi pluricostato secus costas muricatulo in 

 tubum calycis longissimum patenti-pilosum (laciniis lanceolatis ad carinam villosis 5-6- 

 plo longiorem) sensim attenuatis. — Along Santa Fe Creek ; June, July. — This is far 

 the largest and most striking species of the section, and apparently one of the handsomest 

 of the genus. My specimen shows a thick and fleshy ascending stem, torn from the 

 root or caudex, a span in length, which bears numerous alternate but approximated leaves, 

 many of them a foot long. These are pinnatifid-sinuate, as in CE. marginata, Null., and 

 with the margins and midrib equally villous. Besides the far greater size, which may be 

 of no consequence, the ovaries and young capsules are strictly sessile in the axils of the 

 leaves, and the older ones are glabrous except towards the apex, where they taper 

 insensibly into the prolonged calyx-tube, showing no exterior indication of the point of 

 separation. They are an inch and a half in length by two lines in diameter, purplish, 

 many-striate, and minutely muricate or tuberculate along the ribs, the older ones incurv- 

 ed. The calyx-tube attains the length of 6 or 7 inches ; the segments are fully an inch 

 and a half long, marked with a slightly carinate midnerve, which is villous. The petals 

 are fully the length of the calyx-segments, white, changing to rose-color. Anthers fixed 

 by the middle, almost an inch long. The ripe fruit is unknown.* 



229. (E. (Meriolix, Raf., Calylophis, Spach.) serrulata, principally /3. Doug- 

 lasii, Ton: Sf Gray, Fl. 1. p. 502. Sandy hill-sides and low prairies, from Las Vegas 

 to the Cimarron ; August. 



230. (E. (Salpingia) Fendleri (sp. nov.) : minutissime pulverulento-glandulifera, 

 glabra; caulibus e radice lignosa decumbentibus ; ramis brevibus adsurgentibus; foliis 



* Fine specimens of CE. montana, Null., gathered by Fremont in his second journey, which I have exam- 

 ined in Dr. Torrey's herbarium, perfectly accord with those of Nuttall, and remain distinct from CE. crcspitosa ; 

 but the cylindraceous pods have the sutures slightly crested. The seeds resemble those of CE. marginata. 

 The tube of the glabrous calyx is only two or three inches long, and twice or thrice the length of the segments. 

 — No. 406 of Geyer's Oregon collection, named CE. triloba in the published account, is CE. heterantha, ISult. ; 

 which also occurs in Spalding's Oregon collection. 



