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Cynoglossum viride n. sp. I Mate lix. 



Stems several, from woody, horizontal rootstock, 

 Ij4—2 dm. high, covered at base with brownish, ovate- 

 lanceolate scales; silky-canescenl throughout, with down- 

 ward-appressed hairs that become spreading with age; 

 lowest leaves 8-14 em. Long, linear or oblanceolate, on 



long, margined petioles; middle leaves sessile by a broad 

 base-, oblong, obtuse or bluntly pointed, 14 em. long, 

 2 em. wide; uppermost leaves ovate-acuminate, much 



shorter than those 011 the middle of the Stem; flowers in 

 ;i < apitate cyme, ;it first almost sessile and surrounded by 



the leaves, the cyme becoming looser ami the peduncle 

 elongating with age (6—9 em. long); pedicels 5 mm. or 

 less in length, pale-fulvous, with shining, appressed hairs; 

 divisions of the calyx linear-oblong, obtuse, 5-8 mm. 

 long; 1% nun. wide, densely covered, especially on the 

 midvein, with white or yellowish curly hairs; corolla 

 tubular, dull yellowish green, 1 can. long, with rounded 

 lobes 2 mm. wide; crests in the throat obcordate ; stamens 



with short filaments and anthers exserted from be- 

 tween the corolla lobes, but scarcely equalling them; 

 style stout, surpassing the calyx, narrowing some- 

 what towards the clavate stigma, elongating alter an- 

 thesis; nutlets only one or two maturing, large, slightly 

 flattened, the scar shaped like the inner side of a clam- 

 shell. 



This is nearest to C. occidentale, (Jray, which it resem- 

 bles in habit of growth and general appearance. Both 



species are densely leaved alone," the middle ol the stem, 

 scaly at the base, and have leaves quite similar in outline. 

 ('. occidentale is hispid, with coarser hairs; but that char- 

 acteristic seems to be variable. The chief differences 

 are in the Mowers as shown in the figure. The flower of 

 ( '. occidentale in the figure was taken from a specimen 



