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scabrous-Serrulate: leaves compact and small, all the diyis- 

 ions broad, Avlien young strongly cucullate-incurved, and 

 even in age noticeably so: rim of torus very broad, revolute; 

 calyptra ovoid, with an abrupt acumination fully as long as 

 the body: petals 1 inch long, lemon-yellow with orange spot 

 at base : pods stout, 3 inches long or more. 



On the seacoast at Fort Bragg, Mendocino Co., California, 

 Michener, 1893. The plant sent to the Botanic Garden by 

 Mr. Michener has flowered for two seasons, and presents a 

 strong contrast to other perennial species of the genus not only 

 by its good specific characters, but also by a period of flow- 

 ering quite its own, and two months later. It matures no 

 seeds in the Berkeley climate. 



Hemitonies pumilum. Whole plant a cushion-like sub- 

 globose body 1 or 2 inches high and nearly as broad, with a 

 covering of very numerous closely imbricated thin scales, 

 the outer being deltoid-ovate, the inner passing gradually to 

 lanceolate, all acute, glabrous, or the inner with margins dis- 

 tinctly ciliate: flowers sessile at summit of the 

 watery-fleshy stem, little exceeded by the inner bracts, and 

 forming together a flat summit to the entire plant, the middle 

 one of the cloister being 6-merous, all the others 4:-merous: 

 sepals 4, linear, ciliate: corolla very woolly within, its ovate 

 lobes about as long as the tube, the whole organ pale pink- 

 ish: stamens not equalling the short stout style, hairy above 

 the middle: stigma yellow. 



Most remarkable species, the whole plant resembling a 

 thistle head, or some similar object. The plant was found 



very 



Mr.W 



Mendocino 



in June of this year, 



Stachys yelutina. Stoat perennial 2 to 6 feet high, 

 clothed throughout with only a soft almost velvety, short 

 pubescence, scarcely glandular and not very heavily scented: 

 stem sharply quadrangular: leaves thickish, rugose, short- 

 petioled, spreading, cordate-ovate, 3 to 6 inches long: spike 



