NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 247 
THELYPODIUM ANISOPETALUM. Annual,erect,slender,2t05 
feet high; stem sparingly retrorse-hispiduious below, gla- 
brous and glaucescent above, unilaterally racemose through- 
out more than half its length: flowers small, on short but 
filiform pedicels, irregular; the sepals purple, very obtusely 
obovate, the two lower longer than the two upper and dis- 
tinetly concave when expanded; two upper petals surpass- 
ing their correlative sepals, the two others shorter and not 
exserted: pods deflexed on their slender curved pedicels, 
_ very narrowly linear, acute, 2 or 3 inches long. 
Valley of Mexico, 30 Sept., 1896, C. G. Pringle. Most in- 
teresting among the species of Thelypodium on account of 
the strong irregularity of its flowers, which bear a strikiug 
superficial likeness to those of some Polygala. Yet the speci- 
mens were distributed under the name of Thelypodium mi- 
cranthum ; though the pods alone, with their peculiar long 
filiform curved pedicels, furnish characters of specific value ; 
and it may be questioned seriously whether the floral char- 
acters are not sufficient to establish the plant in the rank of 
a genus. 
Papaver Macouwi. Perennial, scapose, the very stout 
scapes often a foot high in fruit, three or four times sur- 
passing the tuft of leaves, hirsute-hispid: leaves, even to 
the petioles, comparatively devoid of hairiness, sometimes 
Wholly glabrous; leaf-outline ovate rather than obovate, the 
pinne oblong-lanceolate to almost linear: petals 4, round- 
obovate, erose-dentate, often 14 inches long, yellow, fading 
greenish: pods 1 inch long, narrow, clavate-oblong, 4-5- 
angled, hispid except on the prominent angles or ribs. 
Abundant on the uplands of St. Paul Island, Behring Sea, 
J. M. Macoun, June, July, 1897. Easily distinct from all 
other boreal poppies by its narrow capsules, which are al- 
most acute by the ascending position of the 4 or 5 rays of 
the stigma ; thus approximating the scarcely tenable genus 
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