NOVITATES TEXANS. 137 
VERBENA INCONSPICUA. Allied to V. pulchella, larger, 
coarser, but the corollas small and inconspicuous; some of 
the leaves divided, the earliest obovate and incised, the later 
3-lobed and the lobes trifid; pubescence rather softly hirsute; 
spikes sessile, somewhat elongated and not very dense; 
bracts nearly equaling the calyx, linear, somewhat spread- 
ing or deflexed; calyx-teeth subulate-aristiform and purple, 
the whole calyx, as also the subtending bracts hispidulous; 
corollas almost minute, white or pale pink. 
Plains west of the Rio Pecos, 20 April, 1902, n. 106; also 
larger, in an alfalfa field in the Davis Mountains, 23 April, 
n. 178. Remarkable in this group of bipinnatifid species 
for the diminutive proportions and almost white color of 
the corollas, the tube of which does not exceed the calyx. 
MIMULUs INAMa@NUs. Perennial, nearly or quite glabrous, 
the stout succulent stems several feet long, largely prostrate 
and rooting at the nodes, the flowering portion assurgent ; 
lower internodes 3 or 4 inches long; leaves here 2 inches 
broad, suborbicular but with subhastate base and cuneiform 
petiole; earliest floral leaves nearly as large, similar in 
form, subsessile; slender pedicels and small flowers together 
at first shorter at length longer than the gradually dimin- 
ishing foliage; calyx bilabiate, about 4 inch long; corolla 
also small but of about twice the length of the calyx, yellow. 
Limpia Cafion, western Texas, 25 April, 1902, Messrs. 
Earle and Tracy. The Texan Mimuli allied to M. Jamesii 
of the far northern region of the Great Lakes, seem to be 
several, though confused under that name by former authors. 
The present species, small, flowered as M. Jamesii, is a large, 
Coarse plant, growing in mud. M. Jamesii floats on the 
surface of cold deep springs of the clearest water. 
