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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 309 
these very scabrous: spikes very slender, 1 or 2 incheslong, 
short-peduncled or subsessile, rather dense: subulate bracts 
closely appressed to the calyx and of less than half its length; 
corolla minute, scarcely exceeding the calyx, blue: nutlets 
minute, searcely 4 line long, oblong, rugulose on the back, 
the commissure coextensive with the length ofthe nutlet. 
Foothills of the Sierra Nevada, in Amador Co., California, 
1889, Geo. Hansen. In habit, and in the very distinetly 
and amply trichotomous, inflorescence, recalling the South 
American V. littoralis. 
VERBENA ROBUSTA. Stout, rigidly erect, 2 or 3 feet high, 
without branches other than those of the mostly condensed 
terminal and subterminal inflorescence: leaves about 3 
inches long and exceeding the internodes, of somewhat 
ovate outline but usually with a pair of large lobes below, 
thence abruptly narrowed to a cuneiformly petiolar base, 
the blade strongly rugose-veiny and soft-pubescent beneath, 
greener and scabrous above: spikes sessile, stout and dense, 
usually crowded, the terminal one of each short branchlet 
2 or 3 inches long and subtended by a pair of very short 
ones: calyx hispidulous: light-blue corolla well exserted : 
nutlets $ line long, quadrate-oblong, marked on the back by 
one or more prominent striz and many transverse rugos- 
ities, the concave commissure coextensive with the body of 
the nutlet and with a conspicuous margin. 
Dry hills about San Francisco Bay, especially near Point 
Isabel on the eastern shore, and on Point Tiburon; flower- 
ing in the middle of the dry season. 
GENTIANA ANISOSEPALA. Annual, erect, slender, simple, 
5 to 10 inches high, with a few small flowers terminal and 
in the upper axils: leaves in a few pairs, the lowest obovate, 
the middle pairs oval, the uppermost cordate-oval, all ob- 
tuse, sessile, 1 to more than # inch long: the few flowers about 
4 lines long; calyx parted almost to the base into 5 nar- 
